Ruchir Sharma analyzes how the AI boom is reshaping global markets and creating a new economic world order
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Financial Times
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Ruchir Sharma analyzes how the AI boom is reshaping global markets and economies, creating a new world order where AI-driven companies dominate returns and overwhelm all other investment drivers. The piece examines the concentration of market power in a handful of tech giants, the geopolitical implications of AI leadership, and the risks of an AI bubble, while also exploring how different countries and sectors are positioning themselves in this transformative era.
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Never before has so much market value been concentrated in so few companies, and never before has that concentration been driven by a single technology.
The scale of capital being deployed into AI infrastructure is unprecedented, rivaling the biggest industrial projects in history.
What we are witnessing is not just a technological shift but a fundamental reordering of global economic power.
The risks of an AI bubble are real, but so are the transformative possibilities — the challenge is distinguishing between the two.
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