Enterprise capitalists are within the enterprise of predicting the subsequent large factor, even when they get burned within the course of. Whereas everybody piled onto crypto in 2021 — and plenty of stay bullish about its future regardless of a number of failures this yr — 2022 noticed the rise of generative AI.

However as is the case with any transformative new tech, hype is bound to accompany rising adoption, and generative AI has garnered a lot consideration and cash that many VCs already really feel the budding sector would be the subsequent bubble.

TechCrunch not too long ago surveyed greater than 35 traders working in numerous geographies, funding phases and sectors about how they have been feeling about subsequent yr. One in every of our questions sought their prediction of the place the subsequent bubble can be, and virtually half of these surveyed talked about generative AI.

Whereas a number of traders stated they have been bullish on the brand new tech total, additionally they admitted that the sector was more likely to get misplaced in its personal hype.

Don Butler, managing director at Thomvest Ventures, feels the bubble is already right here. “We consider that the applicability of AI to so many use instances will result in a really massive variety of startups being funded within the house, together with at some eye-watering valuations, and so we predict that the subsequent large bubble is already increasing on this space,” he stated.

This isn’t stunning, given how the sector has burgeoned not too long ago as client instruments like ChatGPT, DALL-E and Lensa AI soared in recognition each in and out of doors the tech group.