The AI bubble is about to pop. Here's how to prepare yourself.

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The AI bubble is about to pop. Here's how to prepare yourself. | Blaze Media

You can survive the collapse of the industry's broken business models.

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OpenAI confirmed it is doing roughly $2 billion a month in revenue as of April 2026, a $24 billion annualized run rate that would have been unthinkable just two years ago. Leaked internal projections suggest the company may burn as much as $17 billion in cash this year. Separate projections show it will still lose somewhere around $14 billion in 2026, even with revenue projected to climb past $28 billion.

The most valuable AI company on the planet, backed by Microsoft and basically every venture capitalist on earth, is running a cash burn rate that swallows most of what it brings in.

Anthropic is in the same boat. By early 2026, it hit a $30 billion annualized revenue run rate. And one analyst estimated the company is losing 200% to 3,000% of each customer's subscription fee on power users of its Claude Code tool.


But the money keeps flowing anyway. Big Tech is on track to spend $700 billion on AI infrastructure in 2026, up from about $400 billion the year before. Nvidia became the most valuable company in the world for a hot minute in June 2024. AI startups are raising at valuations that assume revenue will materialize out of thin air.

How will this further sink the economy, or does it help save it by saving jobs?