Those are VC investments, nothing new to see here. They have all the incentives to ride the AI hype cycle, grow those investments and extract as much value from them as they can. Just as they've done before with other cycles as Big Data, Metaverse, Crypto/DeFi, etc.

Think about it, how many practically identical AI IDEs/editors are sponsored by YC alone? They're just hoping one of all those projects stick along enough to cash at least something in.

The big question is about trends in AI investment and usage from "old" corporations, SMBs and common people. Those will indicate if the world is really trusting the tech.

> The big question is about trends in AI investment and usage from "old" corporations, SMBs and common people.

These are only just getting started, from the large corps down. There is a decade of work ahead for them even if the AI tech stopped maturing right now.

I dunno, I work at a big old corp (finance/fintech industry) with a solid foundation in Data & Analytics, and still things are moving slowly. Not that much high of a hype in the C-level, maybe because sellers are not selling that well due to not really knowing how to extract value from (Gen)AI. Depending on the provider or consulting partner, sometimes they just don't know how to promote its benefits.

Confidence is slowly building up but still is very far from the hype levels I saw in the middle to late Big Data (2015-2017) era.