From AI Hype To AI Math: The Market Just Changed The Rules

• Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn For a while, AI felt like a cheat code. • Mention AI on an earnings call, announce a bigger data center plan, sign a flashy partnership, and the market filled in the rest. • Spend meant ambition. • Ambition which meant valuation. • Over the past few quarters, markets have quietly flipped from “reward any AI headline” to “show me the economics.” Not because AI stopped mattering, but because it started costing real money. • Annual AI-related capex is now pushing past $600 billion, and investors are no longer debating whether AI is strategic.

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• https://news.crunchbase.com/ai/hype-to-math-venture-market-changes-sagie/