Alphabet’s October 2025 Shockwave: Record Highs, AI Investments & $3T Dreams
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Google’s parent company is now pushing toward a $3 trillion market cap, riding the AI wave.

Every major tech stock is up again.

Feels like the same story every tech cycle, big hype and bigger cash. Do you think this one’s different?

  • 🇾 🇪 🇿 🇿 🇪 🇾@lemmy.caOP
    141·
    1 day ago

    It might be a bubble, but bubbles can last a long time. Here are some famous quotes to illustrate the problem:

    “Markets can remain irrational a lot longer than you and I can remain solvent." – A. Gary Shilling, twice named Wall Street’s top economist.

“Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves.” – Peter Lynch, American investor, mutual fund manager, author and philanthropist.

    We know evaluations are high. We know that AI has not delivered on its promises at least not yet. Investor confidence remains high, but for how long? Nobody knows.

    Personally, I think any correction will swiftly bounce because the government will print money to make sure there’s a speedy recovery. We have seen a push to boosting the economy through intensive money printing instead of allowing valuations to crash properly. The Fed loves to kick the can down the road more than anything.

    It’s a race to reach AGI first and if it isn’t real, the bubble’s got a long way left to grow i guess.

    • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.caEnglish
      184·
      1 day ago

      AGI is possible, the question is whether this bubble will reach it, or if it will arise out of the corpses after the crash.

      I personally don’t think the current LLM tech will ever evolve into AGI, but it’s totally possible one of these companies will moonshot AGI off the side of one of their engineer’s desk accidentally.

      The infrastructure that’s going to be left sitting around after the impending crash is going to make for some absolutely insanely cheap opportunities for some really smart (or lucky) groups of people to pull off the miracle and/or catastrophe that will be AGI.

      • neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works
        7·
        20 hours ago

        Llms can’t become agi. Not with how they’re built today. They’re a giant text processing and association engine trained on reddit comments. It only appears smart to us because it speaks English like the internet does.

        But they cant think. Not really. They can only associate existing ideas and thoughts. Not make new ones.