Four harsh realities hit AI investors: high costs, weak returns, and expensive financing
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Ben Berkowitz
Summary
Investors are confronting four harsh realities about AI as a business: (1) AI remains too expensive, acknowledged even by Microsoft; (2) a Bain study shows AI isn't delivering expected returns; (3) infrastructure demand, while strong, fell short of optimistic expectations as Broadcom's weak forecast showed; and (4) financing for AI infrastructure will be more expensive for longer, with potential Fed interest rate hikes rather than cuts. The article highlights a growing gap between AI technology hype and the business/economic realities of monetizing and funding it.
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· 4 pulledAI is too expensive, say CEOs and even Microsoft itself.
It's not paying off nearly as much as companies expected, per a new Bain study.
Infrastructure demand is strong — but not as strong as the most optimistic wanted, as Broadcom showed with its 'weak' forecast.
Financing that infrastructure is going to be more expensive for longer, with signs pointing to the Fed raising, not lowering, interest rates.
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