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Recent news states that the UK government plans to ‘unleash AI’ across the UK, in the hopes it boosts growth. The government is aiming for the UK to become one of the AI “superpowers”, so that it can rival that of the US and China. But how does the UK shape up against these world superpowers?
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Interested in this, prompt management tool AIPRM analysed venture capital investment trends from 2012 to now, to predict which countries will be investing the most in AI in 2025.
To do this, they gathered intel on venture capital investment in: AI start-ups, AI in environmental sustainability, generative AI start-ups and compute start-ups.
Overall UK Insight
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Behind the US and China, the UK has the third highest venture capital investment in AI!
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Interestingly, the UK is investing significantly less into AI compute start-ups than any other AI.
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The third biggest investor into AI in environmental sustainability is Sweden, beating the UK out of the top three – UK place fifth.
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All countries analysed have a positive growth in venture capital AI investment.
Countries With The Highest Venture Capital Investments in AI
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Country |
2012 $ |
2023 $ ADVERTISEMENT
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2024 $ |
2025 prediction $ |
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1st ADVERTISEMENT
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United States |
2,474,000,000 |
54,836,000,000 |
80,493,000,000 |
87,400,000,000 |
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2nd |
China |
165,000,000 |
18,271,000,000 |
37,749,000,000 |
40,579,000,000 |
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3rd |
United Kingdom |
121,000,000 |
3,085,000,000 |
6,448,000,000 |
7,057,000,000 |
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4th |
Germany |
29,000,000 |
2,159,000,000 |
3,743,000,000 |
4,109,000,000 |
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5th |
Israel |
105,000,000 |
1,992,000,000 |
3,671,000,000 |
4,018,000,000 |
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6th |
India |
140,000,000 |
2,077,000,000 |
3,464,000,000 |
3,802,000,000 |
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7th |
Canada |
115,000,000 |
1,847,000,000 |
3,133,000,000 |
3,426,000,000 |
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8th |
Korea |
88,000,000 |
2,211,000,000 |
3,051,000,000 |
3,356,000,000 |
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9th |
France |
30,000,000 |
2,027,000,000 |
2,598,000,000 |
2,857,000,000 |
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10th |
Sweden |
700,000 |
1,988,000,000 |
2,357,000,000 |
2,614,000,000 |
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United States will be biggest investor in AI in 2025
AIPRM can reveal that in first place, the United States is predicted to be the biggest investor in AI in 2025. In 2012, investors in the US were already pumping billions in AI ($2.4bn). By 2024, this has jumped to $80.5bn – using linear regression, AIPRM predicts that by 2025 the US will be investing $87.4bn, a whopping 3,432.7% increase from 2012!
Notably, the United States had the highest predicted venture capital investments in AI compute start-ups in 2025 – at $9.5bn. AI compute start-ups are companies that focus on building the technology and infrastructure needed to run artificial intelligence systems more efficiently, quickly, and cheaply.
China takes second spot
Following behind as the second highest predicted investor in 2025 is China. Despite being significantly lower than the US in 2012 (at $165m), investment in China has jumped all the way up to $37.7bn in 2024 – an increase of +22,778%. China is forecasted to be making investments in AI at around $40.5bn in 2025. Interestingly, China had the highest predicted venture capital investments in AI in environmental sustainability in 2025, forecasting a whopping $3bn.
Using AI for environmental sustainability use is a lesser known phenomenon but is used to help protect the planet and address bigger challenges. By using AI, it can act as a smart helper by analysing large amounts of data to find patterns and solutions that humans might miss.
The UK is predicted to be the third highest venture capital investor in 2025. In 2012, investments into AI were around $121m, today, investments into AI are $6.4bn. Using linear regression, forecasted figures suggest the UK will be investing around $7bn. The UK had the third highest venture capital investments in AI compute start-ups for 2025 (predicted $494m) and ranked 5th in predicted capital investments in AI in environmental sustainability in 2025 ($159m).
Investment into specific AI can be found in the full dataset.
