American startups raised more than $91 billion in venture capital funding in the first quarter of this year, according to new data out this week from the research firm Pitchbook.
More than a third of that funding went to one company: OpenAI. But even if you leave that mega-deal out, AI-focused companies still received about half of the remaining VC dollars in the United States.
One reason venture capitalists are piling into AI? They have a serious case of…
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