The AI boom is not a bubble
Valuations may be spectacular and a bust could come — but while there’s exuberance there is no mania or irrationality
Valuations may be spectacular and a bust could come — but while there’s exuberance there is no mania or irrationality

The high priests of Silicon Valley and Wall Street are beginning to acknowledge the excesses of Big Tech valuations

AI-fuelled market euphoria is a new telling of an old story that will not play out differently this time, writes John Plender —…

Valuations rest on the incorrect assumption that frontier model creators have built massive, durable moats

The gap between hype and reality is frustratingly wide and growing

Given that the growth of demand for AI is so unpredictable, there can be no doubt investor behaviour is speculative

Interest in AI and defence tech start-ups has boosted investor activity after a prolonged slowdown