Top 1% of companies spend over 600x more on AI than the median firm
TansuYegen · x · 2026-08-16
The AI revolution is being captured rather than evenly adopted, with the top 1% of companies now spending over 600 times more on AI than the median firm. This massive disparity is turning apparent progress into a new class system defined by access to tokens and GPUs.
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