@rohanpaul_ai: This is a brilliant report. The State of the AI Economy by @exponentialview - $110B real AI revenue over 12 months, aft…
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A report by Exponential View reveals that the generative AI economy generated $110 billion in real revenue over the past 12 months, with an annualized run rate exceeding $175 billion. It highlights growth faster than mobile or internet adoption, price-elastic demand where token price cuts drive increased usage, and early-stage enterprise AI deployment.
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This is a brilliant report. The State of the AI Economy by @exponentialview
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$110B real AI revenue over 12 months, after removing double-counting. so $1 spent on Claude is counted once, even if part of it later flows to Amazon or another infrastructure provider.
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$175B current annualized run rate, showing fast acceleration. Measured by end-customer spend, not supply-chain pass-through revenue. Excludes China, internal AI savings, ad uplift, consulting, and systems integration.
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Growth running roughly 3x faster than mobile or internet adoption waves.
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The pace of revenue formation has sharply accelerated. New $1B revenue now arrives in under 2 days, versus 180 days in 2023.
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Enterprise AI has moved beyond pilots, but deep company-wide rollout is still early.
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AI earnings-call mentions reached 31% of tracked S&P 500 firms.
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Only 20% of tracked firms made quantified AI impact claims.
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Hyperscaler AI revenue roughly covers AI infrastructure depreciation for now. GPU economics depend heavily on 6-year compute life assumptions. Other AI infrastructure gets modeled over 14 years.
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Token price cuts do not automatically reduce revenue.
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Every 10% token price cut drives 12-18% more token usage.
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AI demand looks price elastic, meaning cheaper AI expands usage faster than prices fall.
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Power availability and data-center costs remain major limits on future scaling.
Azeem Azhar (@azeem): The GenAI economy has generated $110 billion in sales over the past 12 months. It is growing fast. On an annualized basis, the revenue run rate exceeds $175 billion.
These numbers took us several months to construct, and as far as we know, it’s the first bottom-up, deduplicated
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