Seattle Ranks #3 in US AI Growth Study

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• •Puget Sound has the third-largest cluster of AI-specialty talent in the U.S. with 32,965 specialists, behind San Francisco Bay Area and New York Metro, comprising 61.8% of its tech workforce[1].
• •Greater Seattle attracted over $6 billion in AI startup funding over the past decade and ranked as the nation’s second-biggest new AI job hotspot[2].
• •In 2025, 49 AI companies in Greater Seattle secured funding, including Supio ($60M Series B for AI legal research) and Centific ($60M for enterprise AI)[2].
• •Washington state ranks 5th nationally in AI startup activity with 481 AI startups[6].

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