Editor's note: In 2024, Crunchbase News interviewed active startup investors in artificial intelligence. Below, we publish highlights from those interviews. Read the full interviews with Felicis, Battery Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Costanoa and Citi Ventures as well as highlights from more interviews we shared in 2023. This was the breakout year for funding to AI companies. Venture funding through mid-December reached $99.6 billion ' up 80% year over year ' Crunchbase data shows. Close to a third of that funding went to foundation model companies. The other two-thirds of funding went to sectors impacted by these new models. Separate from the hardware and data provisioning to manage and operate AI, leading sectors included autonomous driving, healthcare, robotics, professional services, and marketing and sales, Crunchbase data shows. With billions of dollars flowing to these new technologies, we spoke with more than a half-dozen earliest-...
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