TechFlow news, ARK Invest released a report stating that AI-driven "purchasing agents" will in the future be able to automatically compare products and complete purchases across different platforms, significantly reducing consumers' shopping time. This transformation could disrupt traditional consumer markets and reshape the consumer services industry.
Meanwhile, the ARK Invest report noted that OpenAI's potential valuation could reach $150 billion, making it the third most valuable privately held company in history to raise funds, behind only ByteDance and Ant Group. ARK estimates that by 2030, foundational model providers like OpenAI could generate $3.5 trillion in revenue by helping power $13 trillion worth of AI enterprise software.
The report also showed that venture capital investment in the AI sector continues to heat up. Including OpenAI's latest funding round, more than half of U.S. venture capital funding this quarter—and over 40% globally—has flowed into AI opportunities. Year-to-date, total venture capital investment in AI has reached $90 billion, a 50% year-on-year increase, while non-AI venture investment has dropped to its lowest level since 2016.
ARK Invest believes that given the scale of potential opportunities brought by AI, these investments are justified, and the rise of artificial intelligence could become the technologically driven economic transformation with the greatest impact in history.
