The artificial intelligence industry has seen rapid growth, leading to speculation that the artificial intelligence sector could be in a bubble.
Nvidia has been generating strong sales of its AI accelerators and expects them to continue in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026 with estimated revenue of $65 billion.
According to Nvidia’s CEO, major technological changes in platforms are driving the growth of the AI ​​sector.
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The artificial intelligence (AI) sector has expanded rapidly since ChatGPT creator OpenAI launched its AI chatbot in late 2022. But after several years of phenomenal growth, some observers worry that the entire AI sector and stocks of companies that rely on this technology may be in a bubble.
What awaits the AI ​​industry in 2026? One way to assess its prospects would be to examine the leader in semiconductor chips. NVIDIA(NASDAQ: NVDA).
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Nvidia predicts that in its current quarter, the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026, its revenue will reach $65 billion. But what are the implications of that forecast for the AI ​​space more broadly?
First, a little context. Nvidia once again demonstrated why it is a leader in the AI ​​industry when it released its fiscal third quarter results. For the period, which ended Oct. 26, it posted record revenue of $57 billion, a 62% year-over-year increase.
With this as context, its forecast for $65 billion in fiscal fourth-quarter sales shows its revenue growth is accelerating: It’s pointing to a massive 65% jump from the prior-year period’s revenue of $39.3 billion, which was a record at the time.
Nvidia’s projected fourth-quarter sales growth demonstrates that the huge demand for its data center solutions is not slowing. “Demand for AI infrastructure continues to exceed our expectations,” Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress said on the earnings call.
In fact, Nvidia’s AI chip platforms, Blackwell and its successor, Vera Rubin (due to launch in the second half of 2026), are seeing strong customer orders.
“We currently have visibility of half a trillion dollars in revenue from Blackwell and Rubin from the beginning of this year through the end of calendar year 2026,” Kress also said on the call.
Given Nvidia’s enormous success, it’s no surprise that the company’s stock is up about 39% in 2025. But that kind of rapid share price growth has contributed to concerns about valuations in the AI ​​market.
CEO Jensen Huang directly addressed these concerns on the fiscal third-quarter call, saying, “There’s been a lot of talk about an AI bubble. From our perspective, we see something very different.”
He went on to explain how AI is enabling three major platform shifts that will drive industry growth in the coming years. The first change is that legacy technology is no longer sufficient and requires an upgrade. The computing industry was largely built around CPUs, but much of this older architecture must transition to accelerated computing to deliver the parallel processing power needed in the age of AI.
Next up is the transition to the era of generative AI ushered in by ChatGPT. Governments and businesses are searching for this innovative technology and figuring out how best to employ it.
Finally, the emergence of agent AI alongside real-world applications (called physical AI and encompassing robots and autonomous vehicles) is just beginning. This level of use of AI, according to Huang, “will be revolutionary and will lead to new applications, companies, products and services.”
Huang’s view is supported by the performance of other AI companies. For example, OpenAI’s weekly user base increased to 800 million in 2025. This is an incredible increase from the 300 million users it had at the end of 2024.
News reports note that artificial intelligence company Anthropic projects an annualized revenue rate of $9 billion by 2025, up from $1 billion at the beginning of the year. And it is said to expect its run rate to skyrocket to $26 billion by 2026.
These examples explain why AI industry forecasts predict years of spectacular growth. According to a United Nations Trade and Development report, the global AI market could expand as much as 25-fold within a decade, from $189 billion in 2023 to $4.8 trillion in 2033. That kind of forecast underscores Huang’s outlook and supports the idea that the AI ​​boom is poised to continue.
Not all companies that promote AI capabilities will be successful in the long term. But in Nvidia’s case, it has positioned itself to be a central player in the AI ​​industry, with strategic investments in companies like OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as continued advancements in its AI offerings, as illustrated by its upcoming Vera Rubin processors.
Consequently, Nvidia is one of the companies likely to enjoy sustained prosperity as technology moves inexorably toward an AI-driven world.
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