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Why Most AI Projects Will Fail — And How to Find the Companies That Won't

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Why Most AI Projects Will Fail — And How to Find the Companies That Won't In this episode of Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing, Motley Fool contributor Rachel Warren sits down with Steve Lucas, chairman and CEO of Boomi, to unpack what Wall Street is missing: Why the next wave of AI winners won't be the flashy model ma…
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  • Gartner forecasts that a number of agentic AI projects will fail or fail to return results and will be shut down by the end of 2027

    60% confidence
  • New customer/logo acquisition is the number one indicator of a sufficiently transformative technology

    60% confidence
  • The cost to train GPT-2 was just shy of $50,000

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  • Steve Lucas previously turned Marketo into a $4.75 billion acquisition by Adobe

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  • The cost to train frontier AI models in 2026 exceeds $1 billion

    60% confidence
  • The four major U.S. hyperscalers spent around $400-410 billion on AI capex last year, rising to over $700 billion this year

    60% confidence
  • A $1,000 investment in Netflix at the time of its Stock Advisor recommendation on December 17, 2004 would be worth $369,577

    60% confidence
  • OpenAI is burning $3 billion a month, which is a reported and reliable figure

    60% confidence
  • Elon Musk put a cap on what his employees can spend at Tesla and SpaceX, per a recently reported news item

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  • ROI now supersedes AI as the priority for boards and executives evaluating AI investments

    60% confidence
  • Claims that AI will take away human jobs are largely nonsense and fraud designed to scare people into buying a product

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  • Nvidia is the one company unequivocally making a ton of money from AI, while many other companies build amazing models but lose extraordinary amounts of money

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  • A $1,000 investment in Nvidia at the time of its Stock Advisor recommendation on April 15, 2005 would be worth $1,301,557

    60% confidence
  • Stock Advisor's total average return is 908%, compared to 208% for the S&P 500

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  • If humans don't trust something, it will never be used, and this applies to AI just as it did to prior data and analytics projects

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  • As many as 40% of enterprise AI projects could ultimately be abandoned

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  • Companies citing AI efficiency as the reason for layoffs are often engaging in spin without real data to back up productivity claims

    60% confidence
  • AI is meaningless without data, and unique proprietary data is what investors should look for

    60% confidence
  • Within the next two decades, AI will largely manage or solve the major health challenges humans currently face, including curing type 1 diabetes

    60% confidence

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