Are we in an artificial intelligence bubble?<\/p>\n
It’s the debate that dominated the tech industry in 2025<\/a>, and it’s not going away anytime soon.<\/p>\n Record valuations and deals driven by major investments<\/a> in artificial intelligence<\/a> have fueled the AI boom, leaving some to brace for the potential burst.<\/p>\n AI leaders like OpenAI<\/a> and Nvidia<\/a> have spun an impressive web of staggering deals with cloud infrastructure companies, while hyperscalers including Amazon<\/a>, Microsoft<\/a> and Google<\/a> continue to spend billions on data center buildouts<\/a>.<\/p>\n Although companies are racing to supply the rapidly accelerating AI demand, the enormous debt<\/a> financing these buildouts have sparked worry that the spending spree may prove to be an overreach.<\/p>\n Economic bubbles<\/a> occur when asset prices in a specific market rapidly rise, often due to speculation or overenthusiasm, followed by a crash when prices suddenly drop.<\/p>\n Bubble talks ignited again at the end of last year after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang<\/a> dismissed fears of a possible AI bust during the company’s third-quarter earnings call.<\/p>\n “There’s been a lot of talk about an AI bubble,” he said. “From our vantage point, we see something very different.”<\/p>\n Others have been less confident in the stability of the AI surge, including “The Big Short” investor Michael Burry<\/a>. <\/p>\n The fund manager, who rose to fame for predicting the 2008 housing crisis, drew parallels between the current spending euphoria and the dot-com mania of the late 1990s in a lengthy Substack<\/a> essay.<\/p>\n “Sometimes, we see bubbles,” Burry wrote in an October X post<\/a>. “Sometimes, there is something to do about it. Sometimes, the only winning move is not to play.”<\/p>\n OpenAI CEO Sam Altman<\/a> made a similar comparison<\/a> during a dinner with reporters in August.<\/p>\n “Are we in a phase where investors as a whole are overexcited about AI? My opinion is yes. Is AI the most important thing to happen in a very long time? My opinion is also yes,” he said.<\/p>\n A note on methodology:<\/strong><\/p>\n CNBC compiled responses from 40 tech executives, analysts and other professionals in the space, who shared their thoughts over the past four months about the current AI frenzy.<\/p>\n Although the question of whether or not the market is in a bubble seems binary, many answers have landed across a spectrum of bubble potential \u2014 and worry.<\/p>\n To give each response a more rounded perspective, CNBC also weighed the level of concern.<\/p>\n CNBC scored each person’s remarks on a scale from 0 to 10 on two factors: How much they believe that AI is in a bubble (0 being no and 10 being yes) and how concerned they are about it (0 being not concerned at all and 10 being very concerned).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Are we in an artificial intelligence bubble? 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