Amazon founder Jeff Bezos speaks with John Elkann, CEO of Exor and chairman of Ferrari at Italian Tech Week on October 3, 2025.
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TURIN, Italy — Synthetic intelligence is at the moment in an “industrial bubble” however the know-how is “actual” and can convey large advantages to society, Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos mentioned on Friday.
The time period bubble often refers to a interval of inflated inventory costs or valuations of firms which have disconnected from the basics of a enterprise. One of the well-known bubbles that burst was the 2000 dotcom crash the place the worth of web firms plummeted.
Exor CEO John Elkann requested Bezos on stage at Italian Tech Week in Turin, Italy whether or not there have been indicators that the present AI trade is in bubble.
“This can be a form of industrial bubble,” the Amazon founder mentioned.
Bezos laid out among the key traits of bubbles, noting that after they occur, inventory costs are “disconnected from the basics” of a enterprise.
“The second factor that occurs is that individuals get very excited like they’re at this time about synthetic intelligence,” Bezos added.
Throughout bubbles, each experiment or thought will get funded, he informed the viewers.
“The great concepts and the unhealthy concepts. And buyers have a tough time in the midst of this pleasure, distinguishing between the great concepts and the unhealthy concepts. And that is additionally most likely occurring at this time,” Bezos mentioned.
“However that does not imply something that’s occurring is not actual. AI is actual, and it’s going to change each trade.”
Bezos gave the instance of a six-person firm receiving billions of {dollars} of funding. That is “very uncommon habits” and but this sort of exercise is going on at this time, he mentioned with out making it clear what firm he was referring to.
The billionaire nonetheless, mentioned that in the end industrial bubbles might be constructive. He pointed to the biotech and pharmaceutical firm bubble within the Nineties, which led to the event of some life-saving medicine despite the fact that many firms finally went bust.
“The [bubbles] which might be industrial are usually not almost as unhealthy, it will possibly even be good, as a result of when the mud settles and also you see who’re the winners, societies advantages from these innovations,” Bezos mentioned.
“That’s what’s going to occur right here too. That is actual, the advantages to society from AI are going to be gigantic.”
AI bubble warnings develop
Bezos isn’t the one main enterprise determine warning about an AI bubble. In August, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reportedly mentioned the AI market is in a bubble, and lots of buyers have additionally raised the difficulty.
Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon on Friday expressed some considerations about inventory market ranges amid the AI hype.
“When [investors are] excited, they have an inclination to consider the great issues that may go proper, and so they diminish the issues you have to be skeptical about that may go flawed … There will likely be a reset, there will likely be a examine in some unspecified time in the future, there will likely be a drawdown,” Solomon mentioned at Italian Tech Week. “The extent of that can rely on how lengthy this [bull run] goes.”
Karim Moussalem, chief funding officer of equities at Selwood Asset Administration, mentioned final week that the “AI commerce is starting to resemble one of many nice speculative manias of market historical past.”
