{"id":76289,"date":"2018-02-24T07:22:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T15:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/chinas-ai-startups-scored-more-funding-than-americas-last-year"},"modified":"2018-02-25T11:02:46","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T19:02:46","slug":"chinas-ai-startups-scored-more-funding-than-americas-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/chinas-ai-startups-scored-more-funding-than-americas-last-year","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s AI startups scored more funding than America\u2019s last year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinas-ai-startups-scored-more-funding-than-americas-last-year.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of $15.2 billion invested in AI startups globally in 2017, 48 percent went to China and just 38 percent to America. So says a new report from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbinsights.com\/research\/report\/artificial-intelligence-trends-2018\/\">CB Insights<\/a> about the state of AI.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So long, America:<\/strong> It\u2019s the first time China\u2019s AI startups surpassed those in the US in terms of funding. While America still has more AI startups than China, they\u2019re starting to lose out in striking equity deals: the US accounted for 77 percent of them in 2013, but that fell to 50 percent last year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fierce competition:<\/strong> AI startup investment rose 141 percent in 2017 compared with 2016\u2014but with 1,100 new startups appearing last year, AI appearing in business models everywhere, and Big Tech\u2019s enterprise AI offerings gaining traction, it\u2019s harder than ever to snag funds.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/the-download\/610271\/chinas-ai-startups-scored-more-funding-than-americas-last-year\/\">https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/the-download\/610271\/chinas-...last-year\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of $15.2 billion invested in AI startups globally in 2017, 48 percent went to China and just 38 percent to America. So says a new report from CB Insights about the state of AI. So long, America: It\u2019s the first time China\u2019s AI startups surpassed those in the US in terms of funding. While America [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76322,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76289\/revisions\/76322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}