AI Startup Humans& Raises $480M at $4.48B Valuation

Is AI investment a $717B bubble destined to crash, or the future of human-machine collaboration?
AI Startup Humans& Raises $480M at $4.48B Valuation
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The Spin

Techno-skeptic narrative

The AI industry's unprecedented $717 billion investment over three years signifies an unsustainable bubble destined for a catastrophic collapse. With infrastructure spending vastly outpacing actual end-user revenue and multiple tech giants each burning hundreds of billions of dollars in pursuit of the same monopoly, most players face inevitable write-offs that will devastate equity investors and potentially crash the broader economy.

Pro-establishment narrative

Human-centric AI is the future of the industry, as proven by Humans& raising $480 million just three months after launch. Building AI that amplifies rather than replaces workers addresses real collaboration needs that autonomous systems ignore, attracting backing from tech giants and visionaries who understand complementary human-machine partnerships create far more value than replacement-focused approaches.

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Editor's Note

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