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Is the AI bubble too big to burst?

Is the AI bubble too big to burst?

Update: 2025-10-29
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There are no salary caps when it comes to securing the future brains of AI researchers. Mark Zuckerberg recently paid a 24 year old $250 million to come work at Meta. OpenAI gave thousands of employees bonus cheques for millions of dollars. AI developer salaries are rising 32% annually, but just how high can these pay packets go? 

The AI bubble is now four times the size of the dot com bubble at it’s peak, and when that bubble burst billions were wiped off the stock market, so could AI be hurtling towards a similar fate? 

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Is the AI bubble too big to burst?

Is the AI bubble too big to burst?

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