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Countless barrels of digital ink have been spilled pondering what kinds of changes AI will bring to the world of work and the corporate landscape. Here on Slope, we are witness to stocks that, for reasons that are not entirely clear, have crumbled with such force that one wonders if they’ll even be around in five years.
Here’s one specific example, brought to you by way of this announcement from the Perplexity AI platform:
The much younger AI company Anthropic, created from a few folks that left OpenAI, has created the rather awkward circumstance of surpassing their former employee in annualized revenues. Ouch!
Considering what’s happening today, it’s easy to forget that last quarter was a huge dud for stocks. Here is a lovely diagram showing the clustering, with most stocks shoved to the left of the 0% mark.
I confess, I’m excited about this IPO, since the Knight family has meaningful participation, but I also think it’s going to be a high-water mark for equity markets after it’s through.
