Can the AI boom survive a margin squeeze?

On a Bloomberg podcast, Silicon Data research head Steve Hou and host Merryn Somerset Webb discuss a core tension in AI economics: token prices are falling while compute costs rise. They examine what the mismatch could mean for valuations of OpenAI and Anthropic and whether demand can justify the huge infrastructure investment.

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