The past 48 hours have delivered major shifts in the global AI industry. The sector is experiencing rapid expansion, visible in both market statistics and headline-making deals. The global AI platforms market, for example, jumped from 11.3 billion dollars in 2024 to an expected 56.3 billion by 2030, representing a 30.8 percent compound annual growth rate. Meanwhile, AI in manufacturing is valued at 34.18 billion dollars this year and is on track to hit 155.04 billion by 2030, surging at a rate of 35.3 percent annually. Over 80 percent of businesses worldwide now have concrete AI integration strategies, driving demand for scalable solutions from giants like Microsoft, Google, and Amazon.

This week, Meta and Google announced a landmark six-year partnership, with Meta committing at least 100 billion dollars to access Google Cloud infrastructure for AI tool development and model training. This is Meta’s first major cloud agreement and a clear sign of intensifying competition, especially as both companies race to advance large language models and robotics.

Nvidia had one of its strongest Augusts on record, with demand from every major cloud provider—Oracle, Microsoft, Google, Amazon—fueling billion-dollar infrastructure deals. Nvidia’s dominance is supported by its early investments in high-growth AI startups, some of which, like Nebius, posted 625 percent year-over-year growth after getting access to Nvidia’s next-gen chips.

On the corporate earnings front, companies such as Agora and Zoom are exemplifying disciplined AI-driven growth, balancing operating margins—Agora with an 11 percent year-over-year revenue increase and Zoom with a 41.3 percent non-GAAP operating margin. In contrast, CoreWeave reported explosive 207 percent revenue growth but continues to post operational losses, underlining the disparity between aggressive expansion and margin discipline.

AI infrastructure is now central to economic activity, contributing up to 163 billion dollars to the US GDP this year. Developer usage of OpenAI tools is rising 50 percent week over week, and OpenAI’s search market share doubled in half a year. The sector faces questions about sustainability, with warnings of a possible investment bubble, but continues to make headlines with new products like Amazon’s AI agent marketplace and regulatory scrutiny in both the US and EU. Compared to mid-year reports, the combination of accelerating partnerships, sharply rising valuations, and diverging profitability strategies paint a picture of an industry at full throttle, marked by both extraordinary promise and high volatility.

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