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The AI Boom: Innovation, Investment, and the Risk of a Bubble

August 29, 2025 Andersen

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become the defining technological story of the 2020s. Generative models like ChatGPT, MidJourney, and Claude have captured the public imagination, fueled multi-billion-dollar corporate investment, and triggered widespread debate over the future of work, creativity, and economic growth.

But with climbing valuations and increasingly grandiose narratives, a central question emerges: are we in the middle of a speculative bubble similar to the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, or is AI a transformative revolution ? We look at the parallels, explore how AI might be different, and outline how Runbox is approaching AI in the midst of this development.

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