Bezos says ‘industrial bubble’ in AI could benefit society
Jeff Bezos compares AI investment frenzy to past tech bubbles, highlighting potential short-term losses but emphasizing long-term societal gains and transformative industry impact.
- Speaking on Friday at Italian Tech Week in Turin, Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and chairman, said "This is a kind of industrial bubble" and continued, "This is real," adding that the benefits to society from AI will be gigantic.
- Bezos drew parallels to earlier tech manias, comparing AI’s current hype to the 1990s biotech boom and dot‑com bubble of the early 2000s, which produced transformative advances despite investor losses.
- Recalling Amazon's dot‑com crash, Jeff Bezos said, `Investors don't usually give a team of six people a couple billion dollars with no product... and that's happening today.`
- Market signals show both risk and demand, as Jeff Bezos warned a drawdown may occur in the next 12-24 months while BlackRock's Global Infrastructure Partners nears a $40 billion Aligned Data Centers deal.
- OpenAI's $500 billion secondary valuation shows scale, as Sam Altman, Joe Tsai, Ray Dalio, Thomas Siebel, and David Solomon warn of a bubble while capital flows into chipmakers, cloud platforms, and data centre operators.
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"When speculative bubbles appear, intelligent people become too enthusiastic about a true shadow," said OpenAI Director General Sam Altman for American publishing tech The Verge. The market of artificial intelligence is in a phase...
Amazon's big boss, Jeff Bezos, said that spending on artificial intelligence (AI) is like an "industrial bubble" that could lead to a loss of investment, but would also improve society.


Bezos says AI spending boom is a bubble that will pay off
The Amazon chairman told attendees to Italian Tech Week that AI is going to change every industry and improve productivity of “every company in the world”.
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