PYMNTS.com December 30, 2025

Venture capital firms reportedly expect enterprises to spend more on artificial intelligence in 2026 while also concentrating that spending on fewer contracts.

After testing AI tools for a few years, enterprises are ready to focus on the ones that have delivered results, TechCrunch reported Tuesday (Dec. 30), citing its survey of 24 VCs.

The areas in which some of the VCs said they expect enterprises to concentrate their budgets include AI safeguards and oversight, data foundations, model post-training optimization, consolidation of tools, vertical solutions and products built on proprietary data, according to the report.

PYMNTS reported Dec. 9 that a report from OpenAI showed that the era of AI experimentation in business is over and that generative AI is becoming...

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