Venture capitalists are positive enterprises will increase AI budgets in 2026

Venture capitalists are forecasting that a majority of enterprises will increase their budgets for AI in 2026. This comes as businesses are largely turning to AI on the back of its transformative abilities. However, these investments into AI will not be for everything but concentrated, according to a survey carried out by TechCrunch. The survey revealed that many enterprises will channel their funding into fewer contracts. Venture capitalists predict a concentration of AI budgets in lucrative products TechCrunch carried out a survey of 24 enterprise-focused venture capitalists that confirmed more investments will be made towards AI next year. One of the respondents, Databricks Ventures vice president Andrew Ferguson, forecast enterprises will start consolidating their investments and picking winners in 2026. “Today, enterprises are testing multiple tools for a single-use case, and there’s an explosion of startups focused on certain buying centers like [go-to-market], where it’s extremely hard to discern differentiation...

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