AI industry spending surging raises concerns about bubble

By Brian Sitnamy

The emergence of AI not only transforms the world in a revolutionary manner, but is a significant catalyst for big techs business, which has clearly reflected in the earning reports of tech companies. On the flip side, big techs are continuing to pour more money in AI front to win the AI arm race, which has raised concerns in terms of AI bubble is forming.

According to the latest report, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman thinks the AI market is in a bubble, citing that when bubbles happen, smart people get overexcited about a kernel of truth.

Altman compared this dynamic to the infamous dot-com bubble, a stock market crash centered on internet-based companies that led to massive investor enthusiasm during the late 1990s. Between March 2000 and October 2002, the Nasdaq lost nearly 80% of its value after many of these companies failed to generate revenue or profits.

The narrative of bubble from Altman coincides with some rhetoric around concerns about excess spending in AI space from some experts and analysts. Alibaba co-founder Joe Tsai, Bridgewater Associates’ Ray Dalio and Apollo Global Management chief economist Torsten Slok had all raised similar warnings. Last month, Slok stated in a report that he believed the AI bubble of today was, in fact, bigger than the internet bubble, with the top 10 companies in the S&P 500 more overvalued than they were in the 1990s.

But some investment professionals do not buy this sort of argument, indicating that the risks related bubble will be company-dependent. They believe that from the perspective of broader investment in AI and semiconductors, the narrative of bubble is not reasonable. The fundamentals across the supply chain remain strong, and the long-term trajectory of the AI trend supports continued investment. But there is an increasing amount of speculative capital chasing companies with weaker fundamentals and only perceived potential, which could create pockets of overvaluation.

Seemingly there is some noise around AI space at this point. Are we in a phase where investors as a whole are overexcited about AI? Is AI the most important thing to happen in a long term horizon? Do the returns of massive spending in AI space from Mega techs are supportive, or in another words, whether the returns of AI spending are good enough to justify the current multiple of Mega techs? These are the most important metrics investors should keep close eye on to judge and assess if we are in an AI bubble phase accurately.

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