Billions spent and hypothetical returns: the AI boom explained with six charts (opens in new tab)

Expenditure is growing fast and consumer take-up accelerating. But alarm bells are sounding The race is very much on. Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which makes AI models as well as space rockets, announced last week it is while Anthropic, the startup behind the Claude chatbot, . OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, is expected to follow.This latest peak in the AI market comes amid a multitrillion-dollar spending spree on related infrastructure such as datacentres. Meanwhile, companies are attempting to de...