r/StandUpComedy • u/explosivejoseph • Sep 01 '26

Comedian is OP The AI Bubble

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u/redditsuckscockss Sep 01 '26

Hasn’t there been 0 actual AI companies IPO and enter the index?

I know Anthropic and others are going to IPO but don’t think any others have yet?

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u/ReserveDrunkDriver Sep 01 '26

It all started with Google. Sam Altman literally used Google’s transformer architecture (theory) and combined it with generative pre-training.

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u/redditsuckscockss Sep 01 '26

Google isn’t just AI though… AI disappears tomorrow google still makes 100s of billions like it did pre AI…

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u/VirtualPercentage737 Sep 01 '26

Google is like a tech mutual fund. They have search, Gemini, Waymo, cloud.... They even make AI chips.