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TacticalCoder 2 hours ago

So basically the equivalent of the entire US GDP in those 14 companies + OpenAI and Anthropic at a $1T valuation or so.

16 companies with a market cap as big as the entire US GDP.

Make is make sense when 15 out of those 16 are US companies.

Back in, say, 2006, twenty years ago, there weren't 15 companies adding up to the entirety of the US GDP.

Something simply doesn't add up.

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cobbzilla 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Isn’t that kind of apples and oranges?

Market cap and GDP are both measured in currency units, I guess they have that in common, not sure I understand the usefulness of this comparison.

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sseagull an hour ago | parent | next [-]

To me it’s more about the scale of these numbers. After billions, people (like me) kind of lose intuition about how gigantic these numbers actually are. Yes GDP has time in its unit, but it still gives a general idea of the size.

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scarmig an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

GDP is more like a currency/time unit, though.

	▲	cobbzilla 39 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Agreed; apples and oranges