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AI Industry — Nature-Inspired Data Visualizations 2026

AI investment growth rings, 2015–Q1 2026

A dendrochronologist reads a tree's life in its rings — wide rings mean good years, narrow ones lean years. Each ring here is one year of AI capital. Ring width encodes total investment; color marks the dominant era.

Key insight

Q1 2026 alone saw $300B invested — more than all of 2023. The four largest VC rounds in history were all closed in Q1 2026: OpenAI ($122B), Anthropic ($30B), xAI ($20B), and Waymo ($16B). AI now accounts for 80% of all global venture capital.

$300BQ1 2026 VC (record)
$259BFull year 2025
80%AI share of global VC (Q1 '26)
+150%Q1 2026 YoY growth
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Infrastructure era 2015–16 Application era 2017–20 Foundation model era 2021–22 AGI race 2023–24 Megaround era Q1 2026

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