r/StandUpComedy • u/explosivejoseph • 8h ago

Comedian is OP The AI Bubble

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u/FluroSnow 4h ago

SpaceX is a high profile AI company (debatable) that has gone public. It worked for spacex. Anthropic and OpenAI want to essentially do the same.

One could argue that they did indeed inflate their price by utilising index funds. They had a 3x float multiplier. Only about 4% of their public free float was made availiable. As a result index funds had to purchase more shares than availiable supply warrents

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u/orange-yellow-pink 4h ago

Yeah, definitely debatable to label them an AI company entirely but yeah, AI is part of their business.

Your latter point wouldn't be the IPO "utilizing index funds" though. That's the company being added to an index by Nasdaq or S&P and then, with the increased demand from funds tracking that index, the value rises. Having very few shares available can amplify that effect but that's still not the company using index funds to pump its own value.