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Whose business is AI itself?
The companies whose business is building AI itself: the models, the chips designed for it, and the products built on it.
AI compute is now two businesses: AI compute has split into a rented market and a government-funded one.
Spending on the AI build is running ahead of the revenue it produces.
What would prove us wrong
Cloud revenue keeps pace with contracted backlog through the next two rounds of reports, and no other big buyer starts renting out spare capacity.
Review 2027-02-28 · check: cloud companies' 10-Qs, 10-Ks and earnings releases; SpaceX filings on the Google lease. · the claim's page
| Company | What it sells | Reports next |
|---|---|---|
| AMD AMD |
Advanced Micro Devices designs processors and graphics chips for data centres and PCs, along with AI accelerator chips. | not yet announced |
| Alphabet GOOG |
Alphabet, Google's parent, earns most of its money from search and YouTube advertising, sells cloud computing services, and funds artificial intelligence research. | not yet announced |
| Amazon AMZN |
Amazon runs online stores, an advertising business and Amazon Web Services, which rents out computing, storage and artificial intelligence services on demand. | not yet announced |
| Apple AAPL |
Apple designs and sells consumer devices such as the iPhone and Mac, with AI features built into them. | not yet announced |
| Applied Digital APLD |
Applied Digital builds and leases data centers that house high-powered computing equipment for artificial intelligence customers. | not yet announced |
| C3.ai AI |
C3.ai sells enterprise software that helps large companies build and run artificial intelligence applications. | 2 Dec · expected, per Nasdaq |
| CoreWeave CRWV |
CoreWeave rents graphics processing chips by the hour from data centers built for artificial intelligence. | not yet announced |
| Elastic ESTC |
Elastic sells search and analytics software that helps companies find and make sense of their data. | 19 Nov · expected, per Nasdaq |
| IREN IREN |
IREN sells GPU-powered computing capacity to AI developers from its own data centres. | not yet announced |
| Meta META |
Meta sells advertising and runs social apps such as Facebook and Instagram, and it builds AI models for its own products. | not yet announced |
| MongoDB MDB |
MongoDB sells a database platform that developers use to store and manage application data. | 7 Dec · expected, per Nasdaq |
| NVIDIA NVDA |
NVIDIA designs the graphics processors and software platforms that power AI data centers, and its chips also serve as onboard computing brains for robots. | 18 Nov · expected, per Nasdaq |
| Nebius NBIS |
Nebius rents out graphics-processing servers and cloud infrastructure for training and running artificial intelligence models. | 10 Nov · expected, per Nasdaq |
| SoundHound SOUN |
SoundHound sells voice AI software that lets businesses and devices understand and respond to spoken requests. | not yet announced |
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Next door
Who makes the chips, and the tools to make them? · Who builds and equips the data centers? · Who supplies the power?