Anthropic & OpenAI target ~$1T valuations
Anthropic and OpenAI are both expected to go public at valuations around $1 trillion or more later in 2026.
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The Business Case: Promising But Flaky
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Spencer Jakab is not dismissive of the technology itself: ChatGPT and Claude have genuinely amazed users, advancing so rapidly that he compares AI's progress to a child jumping from kindergarten to high school [1] — Spencer Jakab "The products are impressive — ChatGPT and Claude have genuinely amazed users. But the underlying economics are fragile: these companies spe…" 07:00 . But impressive products do not automatically make for profitable businesses. The fundamental problem is that AI infrastructure costs far more to build and run than these companies currently charge customers — and neither OpenAI nor Anthropic is profitable. Jakab uses the word 'flaky' deliberately, and it lands hard. The scale of the investment commitment makes the risk even more acute: when all promised AI infrastructure spend is tallied, Jakab estimates it exceeds the internet, railroads, and even the Apollo moon programme, approaching the economic scale of World War II [2] — Spencer Jakab "When all the AI infrastructure commitments are counted up, the total surpasses every major technology buildout in history — the internet, r…" 08:00 . For that level of spending to pay off, revenue must grow at a pace no company in history has ever managed.
AI Investment Approaches World War II Scale
When all the AI infrastructure commitments are counted up, the total surpasses every major technology buildout in history — the internet, railroads, even the Apollo program. Spencer Jakab's jaw-dropping benchmark: we're approaching the economic scale of World War II.
AI investment vs. historical infra
Total committed AI investment is projected to exceed the cost of the internet, railroads, and the Apollo moon program — approaching the scale of World War II spending.
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