The AI arms race is fueling a historic fundraising boom.

Companies have raised roughly $4.7 trillion across global equity, debt, and loan markets so far this year — a record pace and up 7% YoY.
And that figure doesn’t even include the growing wave of investment-grade private credit being used to finance AI infrastructure.
Data centers, advanced chips, and power generation are attracting massive amounts of capital as demand for AI continues to surge.
One example: Apollo and Blackstone reportedly assembled a $35 billion financing package for Anthropic this week.
Wall Street is pouring money into AI at a scale rarely seen before.
The AI infrastructure buildout is still accelerating.