The whole AI world really is completely circular spending where every one loses money along the way. The only one really making any money is Nvidia.
The most honest memory cartel is reporting stupid profit numbers too!
>Samsung chip profit jumps almost 50-fold; supply shortage to worsen in 2027
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/sustainable-finance-r...
>South Korean April exports rise 48.0% y/y as chip boom extends
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-korea-april...
To the point where the big memory makers are suddenly trillion AI-dollar companies.
There is a lot of money coming in from industry, actually an exponentially increasing amount of money - money that would otherwise go to employees is now going to AI companies. There are more startups than you can shake a stick at that are basically creating virtual workers for xyz task and selling them to companies. All that money is funneling back to AI companies. It's a gold rush and employee salaries are the gold.
How is SpaceX not making money?
Total investment is 20-40B, rent to Anthropic for 45B over 3 years.
Anthropic is also profitable now.
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Hot take: the US government should invest money into AI. This is why this is happening. China is doing it.
Except that they're loaning a bunch of money to their "customers" to "buy" their products. It's still really circular.
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