Longtime Investor Warns the AI Industry Is Set to Collapse for a Basic Financial Reason
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Veteran tech investor Roger McNamee, who successfully backed Google, Facebook, and Amazon, warns that the AI industry faces an imminent collapse despite over $700 billion in investments by 2025. McNamee argues that five major tech companies are burning billions competing to build essentially identical AI models, but only one can achieve the monopoly they're all chasing, leaving the rest to fail catastrophically without adequate returns for shareholders.
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