In 2024, the US recorded USD 8.39 billion in revenue.
Data-driven estimates suggest the US AI Image Recognition Market is projected to expand to USD 19.99 billion in 2033, with a CAGR of 9.9% during the forecast horizon.
Large-scale deployment demand is bifurcating: hyperscaler-hosted model services for analytics at scale versus turnkey on-prem inference for regulated verticals, creating a two-speed supplier market where hardware-backed vendors win safety-critical use-cases.
Automotive and manufacturing pilots with real-time defect-detection (example: inline visual QA POCs) reduce false-reject rates and tooling downtime, driving procurement toward vendors offering model governance, continuous annotation pipelines and edge update services.
DataCube Research Report (Nov 2025): This analysis uses 2024 as the actual year, 2025 as the estimated year, and calculates CAGR for the 2025-2033 period.
*Research Methodology: This report is based on DataCube’s proprietary 3-stage forecasting model, combining primary research, secondary data triangulation, and expert validation.
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