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  "title": "AI business in the 2019 report",
  "report_year": 2019,
  "period": "Historical snapshot: June 2019. Dates and populations are specified per row.",
  "methodology": "Funding depends on the source’s definition of AI companies and is not a revenue estimate. The acquisition figure is cumulative, and funding growth does not measure product success.",
  "source_deck": "https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vRIBhi4NHuSnHLCt_AtL-H0wuDAXHg8Qt1YJdNL_OaSWyqqbRe_chXNNHtevCpdnWYz-1BclZVmHMGO/pub",
  "web_edition_date": "2026-10-11",
  "rows": [
    {
      "measure": "Annual venture investment in AI themes",
      "value": ">$27B",
      "definition": "Historical annual figure discussed alongside FY2018 growth.",
      "printed_slide": null,
      "pdf_page": 56,
      "source_url": "https://www.stateof.ai/State-of-AI-Report-2019.pdf#page=56"
    },
    {
      "measure": "FY2018 investment growth",
      "value": "Almost 80%",
      "definition": "Compared with FY2017 in the cited dataset.",
      "printed_slide": null,
      "pdf_page": 56,
      "source_url": "https://www.stateof.ai/State-of-AI-Report-2019.pdf#page=56"
    },
    {
      "measure": "GAFAM AI-first acquisitions",
      "value": "60 since 2010",
      "definition": "Cumulative count in the report; not acquisitions in 2019 alone.",
      "printed_slide": null,
      "pdf_page": 57,
      "source_url": "https://www.stateof.ai/State-of-AI-Report-2019.pdf#page=57"
    }
  ]
}