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but google, meta, microsoft and amazon were making a ton of money even before the AI boom.

OpenAI and Anthropic's can go bust, but ads, windows and cloud hosting would still make a ton of money without them.



But the stock market is not priced for what is happening. It is priced for what investors think will happen. And investors think companies are going to make a lot of profit in the next 3-5 years from AI. If investors lose confidence it will happen those stocks could see a 20 - 40 percent pull back. The companies will obviously be fine, but the stock will take a beating.




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