Global AI market growth forecasts

Analysts are projecting rapid expansion of the artificial‑intelligence sector worldwide. In late July 2026, Gartner forecast that end‑user spending on AI models and platforms would reach roughly $64 billion in 2026, a 63 % increase from the previous year, with generative‑AI model spending expected to grow 117 % and domain‑specific language models 210 %. The same outlook anticipated overall global IT spending to rise to $6.37 trillion, driven largely by AI infrastructure and compute capacity.

A day later, a separate market report projected that the AI model router market – technology that routes AI models for low‑latency, edge‑cloud inference – would expand from about $180 million in 2025 to $4.11 billion by 2035, representing a 44.9 % compound annual growth rate. Growth is attributed to AI adoption across automotive, healthcare, finance and manufacturing, with North America leading and the Asia‑Pacific region growing fastest. Major AI firms and cloud providers are investing heavily in routing software and services to accelerate deployment.

Together, these forecasts illustrate a broader trend of escalating investment in AI infrastructure, platforms and specialized components, underscoring expectations of sustained, high‑velocity growth in the global AI ecosystem over the next decade.