ARK mid-year AI review: compute buildout and adoption keep beating expectations
downingARK · x · 2026-09-03
Seven months after Big Ideas 2026, ARK Invest released a mid-year AI review video arguing that the pace of AI adoption and infrastructure buildout continues to surprise to the upside. It revisits updated data across four topics: compute buildout, power, consumer monetization, and agent efficiency.
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