Here’s why concerns about an AI bubble are bigger than ever

Here’s why concerns about an AI bubble are bigger than ever

By Bobby Allyn
Publication Date: 2025-11-23 10:00:00

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivers a keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas in January.

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Perhaps nobody embodies artificial intelligence mania quite like Jensen Huang, the chief executive of chip behemoth Nvidia, which has seen its value spike 300% in the last two years.

A frothy time for Huang, to be sure, which makes it all the more understandable why his first statement to investors on a recent earnings call was an attempt to deflate bubble fears.

“There’s been a lot of talk about an AI bubble,” he told shareholders. “From our vantage point, we see something very different.”

Take in the AI bubble discourse and something becomes clear: Those who have the most to gain from artificial intelligence spending never slowing are proclaiming that critics who fret about an over-hyped investment frenzy have it all wrong.

“I don’t think this is the beginning of a bust cycle,” White House AI czar and venture capitalist David Sacks said on his podcast All-In. “I think that we’re in a boom. We’re in an…