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Jun 2024
31m 34s

AI’s ROI

The Motley Fool
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In 2023, the AI industry spent an estimated $50 billion on Nvidia chips, with the purpose of training AI models. The payoff for all that spend, according to Sequoia Capital, is $3 billion in revenue. Is that a return worth bragging about?


RIcky Mulvey talks with Fool analyst Asit Sharma about how investors might think about companies’ AI spend. They also discuss:

- The rate of improvement for AI models

- How non-Mag 7 companies are using AI

- And one company that’s spending smartly on the new technology. 


Take a look at the Gartner Hype Cycle


Host: Ricky Mulvey

Guest: Asit Sharma

Producer: Mary Long

Engineer: Tim Sparks


Companies discussed: GOOG, MSFT, NVDA, ARM, AMD, ORCL

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