Exponential View Puts AI's Demand Side at $110 Billion

Azeem Azhar's team says its bottom-up model strips out double-counting and measures end-customer AI spending across the stack.

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Primary source: Exponential View

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The report shifts the AI debate from capex and GPU scarcity to customer demand. If the $110 billion estimate is directionally right, AI is already a large paid market, but its economics still depend on sustained usage growth as prices fall.

Exponential View Puts AI's Demand Side at $110 Billion — Azeem Azhar's team says its bottom-up model strips out double-counting and measures end-customer AI spending across the stack.

Azeem Azhar and the Exponential View research team put a hard number on the demand side of the generative AI boom: $110 billion in deduplicated sales over the past 12 months, with the most recent month implying a revenue run rate above $175 billion.

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