Amazon founder Jeff Bezos speaks while gesturing at the main panel of Italian Tech Week 2025 held in Turin, Italy on October 3, 2025.
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Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos on Wednesday dismissed concerns of a looming artificial intelligence bubble, telling CNBC that the big investment will ultimately help advance the technology in the long term.
“Even if there’s a bubble, you don’t have to worry about it, because the bubble is driving investment, and a lot of the investment is going to be very healthy,” Bezos told CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin in an interview on “Squawk Box.”
Record valuations and transactions driven by huge investments in AI are fueling the AI boom, leading some to wonder if this is due to a bubble that is about to burst. On the other hand, hyperscalers like Amazon microsoft and google We continue to invest billions of dollars in AI infrastructure, with spending expected to exceed $700 billion this year.
Bezos acknowledged that the excitement around AI is “funding all sorts of experiments,” including potentially bad ideas.
“Because investors at this point have not yet learned how to distinguish between good ideas and bad ideas,” Bezos said. “But that’s okay, because the good ideas are going to pay for all the losers.”
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