Open AI has 1.5 Trillion in Spend commitments while only making ~13 Billion in revenue last year. Thats like someone who makes 100k a year buying a 10M home.
Those spend commitments will be reported on partner company balance sheets as revenue even tho Open AI has no way to ever pay that back without continued investment.
Another problem is the companies buying chips from
Nvidia are reporting the chips will last an upwards of 6 years when Nvidia only has them lasting 3. What happens when these companies realize they have to spend 10s of Billions every couple of years to replace chips that dont even have a profitability model right now.
Palintir has an evaluation 500x higher than its yearly revenues. Thats literally 450x higher than the average high end tech company (M$, Meta) which many more tangible assets, a large diverse market share, and clients that arent just world governments. Thats sign the hype train has left the station and we are valuing some of these companies in a way that mars no financial sense.
The real danger is that no one has shown a way to make the money back. At least with smartphone tech you could sell them directly to consumers and can liquidate the used products to other markets or pivot the architectureto other uses. AI is a primarily commercial tool. For individual consumers its just making gimmicky videos and enhancing chat bots. No one has produced a profitability model that will recoup the investment. The once the chips are ran through they are practically useless as well so you dont have a resource liquidation model to decrease the initial cost of investment with a backend divestment strategy.
The dot Com was never responsible for 40%+ of Gdp growth and the majority of that investment wasn't consolidated to 7 or so companies like the dot Com boom was. The America economy at the time was much more diverse and consumers had a better investment portfolio (more home owners by %).
US Gdp wasn't dependent on the dot com bubble to grow. It is for AI. The US economy would technically be in a recession without AI investment. Thats a different danger.
If things are so good can you tell me what the model to profitability with these companies (outside Nvidia) to increase profitability in a way that doesnt complete wreck the American economy?
Because Sam Altman hasn't come up with one. Mark Zuckerbergs AI related ideas have all failed and Alex Karp brings up politics every time you ask him about his companies business fundamentals.
TLDR: "They'll figure it out" aint a plan or a strategy, breh. The American economy outside this spending frenzy isnt healthy. And if this doesnt work it'll tank the economy because Trillions have been spent on this and its responsible for most of the growth in the last 2 years.