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Global venture funding surged to an unprecedented $285.5 billion in the first quarter of 2026, marking the highest quarterly total ever recorded, according to CB Insights. A single massive $122 billion round for OpenAI alone drove 43 percent of the total, underscoring the extreme concentration of capital in frontier artificial intelligence. Even excluding this outlier, investment reached $163.5 billion—surpassing any quarter since early 2022. CB Insights also indicated that mega-rounds of $100 million or more accounted for 86 percent of all dollars deployed, almost entirely within AI-related companies. Other key...