Schmidhuber mocks trillion-dollar IPOs: $1T is just a 7-meter gold cube
SchmidhuberAI · x · 2026-10-05
Jürgen Schmidhuber quips about coming "Tera IPOs", noting that thanks to inflation since the 1971 dollar-gold decoupling, $1 trillion is merely a 7-meter-wide gold cube — "a little house full of gold". He adds that the 2017 neutron star merger GW170817 produced several Earth masses of gold, deflating the hype around trillion-dollar AI valuations.
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