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Exponential View report finds the generative AI economy generated $110 billion in sales over the past year

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A new bottom-up analysis from Exponential View tallies deduplicated end-customer spend on generative AI tools and infrastructure at $110 billion for the past twelve months, pushing the current annualized run rate above $175 billion and positioning the sector as growing roughly three times faster than the mobile or internet waves.

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Florian Brand@xeophon#1778inTech

Azeem and the @ExponentialView team did an insane deep dive about the ai economy and made it freely available, you should definitely check it out 👀

Azeem Azhar@azeem

The GenAI economy has generated $110 billion in sales over the past 12 months. It is growing fast. On an annualized basis, the revenue run rate exceeds $175 billion.

These numbers took us several months to construct, and as far as we know, it’s the first bottom-up, deduplicated measure of consumer and enterprise AI spending across the full stack.

We are releasing this research today in our first The State of the AI Economy report.

https://intelligence.exponentialview.co/

5:09 AM · Jun 25, 2026 · 1.8K Views

Industry Shift

Spending outpaces classic tech buildouts

The modeled figures highlight how quickly real revenue is scaling, yet they rest on triangulated public statements, leaks, and internal P&L estimates rather than audited filings.

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Key slices remain outside the tally

Internal efficiency gains, professional services, and all China activity are explicitly left out of version one, so the reported totals capture only a defined slice of total AI-driven value.

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Users express gratitude and optimism toward reports valuing the generative AI economy at $110 billion in past-year sales, citing interest in reading the analysis and hoping the figures prove accurate.

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Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_

Great report with a lot of interesting data, Bloomberg wrote a story on it this morning. This chart compares Gen AI to the Cloud, Mobile Apps, and the Internet. Way more in the thread.

Azeem Azhar@azeem

The GenAI economy has generated $110 billion in sales over the past 12 months. It is growing fast. On an annualized basis, the revenue run rate exceeds $175 billion.

These numbers took us several months to construct, and as far as we know, it’s the first bottom-up, deduplicated measure of consumer and enterprise AI spending across the full stack.

We are releasing this research today in our first The State of the AI Economy report.

https://intelligence.exponentialview.co/

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Matt Clifford@matthewclifford

This is a hugely impressive piece of work from @azeem & co on the AI economy. Highly recommended.

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rohit@krishnanrohit

This is really really cool. How the AI economy is actually composed. Excellent work, highly recommended!

Azeem Azhar@azeem

The GenAI economy has generated $110 billion in sales over the past 12 months. It is growing fast. On an annualized basis, the revenue run rate exceeds $175 billion.

These numbers took us several months to construct, and as far as we know, it’s the first bottom-up, deduplicated measure of consumer and enterprise AI spending across the full stack.

We are releasing this research today in our first The State of the AI Economy report.

https://intelligence.exponentialview.co/

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Matt Clifford@matthewclifford

Full piece here: https://www.exponentialview.co/p/the-state-of-the-ai-economy

Matt Clifford@matthewclifford

This is a hugely impressive piece of work from @azeem & co on the AI economy. Highly recommended.

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Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_

@darkfore8h I said at the start of this year that this is the last normal year.

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Artur@darkfore8h

@AndrewCurran_ Anyway, do you think that this is the last 'normal' summer ?

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Ramez Naam@ramez

This is a fantastic thread pulled from an excellent report on the AI economy from @azeem and @ExponentialView. High signal to noise.

Azeem Azhar@azeem

The GenAI economy has generated $110 billion in sales over the past 12 months. It is growing fast. On an annualized basis, the revenue run rate exceeds $175 billion.

These numbers took us several months to construct, and as far as we know, it’s the first bottom-up, deduplicated measure of consumer and enterprise AI spending across the full stack.

We are releasing this research today in our first The State of the AI Economy report.

https://intelligence.exponentialview.co/

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Mild Mannered Maniac@80sGeek

@AndrewCurran_ We know how to do this now. Everyone’s more or less on the same page

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Artur@darkfore8h

@AndrewCurran_ Ok. Let's hope You are right !

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J A Z I I@notjazii

@AndrewCurran_ Hmm interesting

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Artur@darkfore8h

@AndrewCurran_ So agi in 2027 ? 🤠

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Matt Beane@mattbeane

@matthewclifford @azeem Off to read, thanks.

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Finance Forecaster@SilkRdMoney

@matthewclifford @azeem The deduplication matters. Most AI revenue estimates count the same dollar three times - chip to cloud to enterprise. If they've actually split that out, the numbers become usable for allocation work.

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