EPISODE · Mar 13, 2026 · 1H 24M

Is AI a Bubble?

from Lumida Wealth : Non-Consensus Invest Beyond the Ordinary · host Justin Guilder

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What this episode covers

Ram Ahluwalia interviews Michael Parekh about whether today’s AI boom is becoming a bubble. They question Anthropic and OpenAI leaders forecasting trillion-dollar revenues and very fast GDP growth, arguing the timelines may be too optimistic, costs are extremely high, and a slowdown could lead to defaults on large “revenue performance obligations” owed to firms like Microsoft and Oracle. Parekh says AI is still in a “mainframe stage” where a few big labs assume they will control most computing, but new local AI agents like the open-source “Open Claw” show more computing can move onto personal devices, which could reduce data-center demand assumptions.