Is AI a Bubble? I Asked the People Building It | WTF is AI?

AI capability is compounding exponentially but diffusion, GDP impact, and enterprise revenue lag far behind the roughly $700B in annual AI spending.

• Spending vs revenue gap: Nikhil Kamath cites $700B committed to AI this year against ~$100B in AI enterprise revenue, calling the math "off" and bubble-like.
• Compute demand explosion: Azalia Mirhoseini projects 10-100x inference demand growth, meaning 10^5 more compute needed in five years than today, driving Recursive Intelligence's AI-designed-chip thesis.

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