Re:OpenAI, Nvidia Fuel $1T AI Market with Web of Circular Deals
by lmm on Thursday October 09, 2025 @04:32AM
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> Is it worse than the dot-com bubble? I remember everyone and their mom who knew HTML could get hired, and there were way more companies that went IPO during the dot-com bubble, like theglobe.com.
IDK, the number of companies and employees might be smaller, but the valuations and comp packages are so much bigger that I suspect there's more money in the bubble this time around, just a bit less spread out.
Re:OpenAI, Nvidia Fuel $1T AI Market with Web of Circular Deals
by rchaud on Thursday October 09, 2025 @04:09PM
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The dotcom bubble had investor capital going towards hiring tens of thousands of people. The AI bubble has capital going towards buying hardware, signing a handful of researchers on 9-figure deals and settling lawsuits for IP theft.
Is it worse than the dot-com bubble? I remember everyone and their mom who knew HTML could get hired, and there were way more companies that went IPO during the dot-com bubble, like theglobe.com.
AI is a bubble, but is it worse than the dot-com bubble or the real estate bubble in 2008?