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Larry Fink (BlackRock CEO) says AI is absolutely not in a bubble and that demand…

Brief

Larry Fink contends AI is not a bubble but undersupplied: power, compute, chips, and memory are the main bottlenecks, and token usage has surged in the last few months in America. He predicts exponential global demand growth and says governments won’t fund needed spend, so private institutional capital (notably BlackRock) must step in.

Why it matters

Larry Fink (BlackRock CEO) says AI is absolutely not in a bubble and that demand already exceeds available supply, creating investment opportunities for private institutions.

Key details

  • Fink names four binding constraints today: power, compute, chips, and memory, and reports token usage has gone “vertical” in the last few months in America.
  • He argues global diffusion will drive exponential demand growth while governments lack the money/appetite to fund it, so private institutional capital—e.g., BlackRock—must fill the gap.
Source evidence

Larry Fink believes that AI is absolutely not in a bubble. If anything, there is too much demand for the amount of supply that exists today

According to Fink, the four key constraints today are power, compute, chips, and memory.

Token usage has clearly gone vertical in the last few months alone, and this is just in America

As these technologies begin to diffuse through the broader global economy, the demand curve will continue to grow exponentially

He points out that there is simply not enough money or appetite from the governments to fund all of this spend. Private institutional capital must step in to fill in the gap, and that is where firms like BlackRock will have a massive opportunity

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