Jefferies: AI boom likely ends in massive US capital destruction, share going to cheap Chinese open-source models
SumitGup · x · 2026-10-10
Jefferies argues the most likely long-term outcome of the AI boom is massive capital destruction in the US, with market share flowing to cheaper open-source Chinese models — a bet against the massive capex strategies of US frontier labs, per Bloomberg.
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