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One estimate of how much annual revenue AI needs to “make sense”: 1.6 trillion. That’s four times what Google made in its best year. (total …

One estimate of how much annual revenue AI needs to “make sense”: 1.6 trillion. That’s four times what Google made in its best year. (total revenue so far is perhaps on order of 100 billion.) In 2024

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One estimate of how much annual revenue AI needs to “make sense”: 1.6 trillion. That’s four times what Google made in its best year. (total revenue so far is perhaps on order of 100 billion.) In 2024 @sequoia said that the AI industry needed 600bn of revenue for the maths to make sense. Strangely they haven't updated it since then, so here's an attempt. 600bn is now more like $1.6trn.... @DavidCahn6

Source: Gary Marcus (X) | 2026-05-11

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