Kai Ryssdal

And if that kind of deal sounds familiar, it might be because it is nearly identical to the one that OpenAI made with AMD last year.

Marketplace's Megan McCarty Carino explains why the AI economy does seem stuck on this kind of, shall we say, investment structure.

All right, we got to go.

I did want to take a second to thank the good people here at Georgia Public Broadcasting for accommodating us on short notice today.

We do appreciate it.

Jordan Mangi, Zoniel Maharaj, Janet Nguyen, Olga Oxman, and Virginia K. Smith are the digital team.

I'm Kyle Risdell.

We will see you tomorrow, everybody.

This is APM.

Okay, so they call it artificial intelligence, but the AI economy is very, very real.

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace.

In Los Angeles, I'm Kai Risdell.

It is Tuesday today, January 27th.

Good as always to have you along, everybody.

We're going to spend the program today recapping a quick trip I took a couple of weeks ago.

Thank you very much.

That's Marketplace's Megan McCarty Carino.

You hear her here and you hear her on Marketplace Tech.

She was my ride at the airport up in San Jose.

Tell me why I'm here.