Global AI venture capital investment has surged from $589 million in 2012 to more than $5 billion in 2016, according to data from the Prospect Industry Research Institute. The total value of the AI application market is expected to reach $127 billion by 2025. Of this, the healthcare industry will account for a fifth of the market size. In the first quarter of 2017 alone, more than 30 AI companies received financing, and when implemented into specific industries, AI startups in the healthcare field are particularly prominent, with the highest attention and financing volume.
From the point of view of financing rounds, most of the medical AI companies are in the pre-A round, at most up to the B round, and several listed companies are applying the AI technology in healthcare rather than relying on the AI technology to make a fortune.China's AI+medical market scale reached 9.661 billion yuan in 2016, with a growth rate of 37.9%, China's AI+medical market scale in the continued to grow, will exceed 13 billion yuan in 2017, an increase of 40.7%, and is expected to reach 20 billion yuan in 2018 market size.