Who Is Really Eating the AI Dividend?
Combining the latest financial reports from giants such as Amazon, Google, and Meta with surveys from multiple institutions, the article sorts out how the AI dividend is distributed among leading model companies, upstream chip and cloud vendors, enterprises adopting AI, and ordinary workers. Anthropic's prospectus shows revenue of $16.286 billion in the first half of 2026, up 1,300% year over year, but compute and infrastructure costs reached $8.945 billion, accounting for 55% of revenue. In a McKinsey survey, 80% of respondents said AI improved efficiency, while only 37% believed AI made a positive contribution to their company's EBIT.
stitutions, the article sorts out how the AI dividend is distributed among leading model companies, upstream chip and cloud vendors, enterprises adopting AI, and ordinary workers. Anthropic's prospectus shows revenue of $16.286 billion in the first half of 2026, up 1,300% year over year, but compute and infrastructure costs reached $8.945 billion, accounting for 55% of revenue. In a McKinsey survey, 80% of respondents said AI improved efficiency, while only 37% believed AI made a positive contri
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