• jeanpascal@lemmy.zip
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    4 hours ago

    The report stresses that AI companies maintain some fundamental differences from the businesses that dominated the dotcom boom of the late 1990s, which was defined by speculative excess and an overreliance on debt financing. Many of the top AI companies, by contrast, are more mature, profitable and maintain healthier balance sheets, which could blunt the impacts of the “bubble” bursting — or if it bursts at all.

    Sorry, what profit? I mean, Nvidia is making a killing, but the rest? https://isaiprofitable.com/

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      Well, I take that to mean that Google (ad profit), Meta (ad profit), and Nvidia (hardware profit) are profitable companies even if AI is a notorious money-sink. I do agree that if they weren’t able to absorb vertigo-inducing billions of dollars of AI losses via their other income, the AI bubble would have popped already.