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#market capitalization

The stock market is quickly waking up to the fact that is the leading AI software company today. It has overtaken and is less than $200 billion away from overtaking as the world's second-largest company. Overtaking the AI hardware leader, will take a bit more work, as it has a $755 billion lead over Google. Fortuitously for Google, that number is a drop in the bucket these days for Wall Street.

Tesla has made CEO Elon Musk's new compensation package official, as it filed a Form 4 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday. The package officially gives Musk the opportunity to acquire over 423 million shares of Tesla stock ( NASDAQ: TSLA), dependent on his ability to achieve twelve performance-based tranches that will bring growth to the company and its shareholders.

And the stakes were high; if he didn't get that control, he threatened to leave. Shareholders simply could not, did not want to imagine Tesla without Elon. All of that money, power, and control increases for Musk if Tesla reaches milestones based on operations, adjusted profit, and market capitalization. Every tranche, if the goal is reached, will deliver 35.3 million shares to Musk. For instance, the first tranche milestone is a market capitalization of $2 trillion.

It took Warren Buffett nearly 60 years to build Berkshire Hathaway into a $1 trillion conglomerate. Eight AI companies have together gained quadruple that in market value in just over nine months. Whether you think AI stocks will keep booming or burst like the dot-com bubble, the growth of these companies has been unprecedented. Their year-to-date gains alone dwarf the total value of some of America's biggest and best-known companies.

One recent prompting session yielded this: As much as 28% of the benchmark MSCI World Index is now IT companies. "That's huge. Number two is banking and financial services, 10 percentage points lower," the CFO said. He also likes to ask Perplexity which companies have the largest 10 market caps in the world. "Nine of them are tech companies and Broadcom recently threw out Berkshire Hathaway," Asam said. "In 1980, it was just IBM. So software does eat the world."

Amazon's current market cap is $2.4 billion, compared to Apple's $3.4 trillion. That sounds like a massive difference, but it's worth noting that Amazon has consistently grown its revenue faster than its peers over the past three years, despite having higher sales numbers. The e-commerce specialist should maintain that momentum for several reasons. First, it remains a leader in the cloud computing market.

The U.S. government is contemplating a significant investment in Intel's $20 billion semiconductor plant in Ohio to alleviate delays in the project.

KULR Technology Group's shares soared to $43.92 in 2024 but have plummeted 78% in 2025, with a current market cap over $200 million.

This week, tech companies are spending amounts of money that stretch the limits of the imagination, with significant investments in AI leading the charge.

The $2 trillion club is becoming populated by businesses driven by demand for artificial intelligence with Nvidia leading the way as the first $4 trillion company.

The inclusion of The Trade Desk in the S&P 500 is anticipated to positively impact its stock due to associated index tracking buy-ins.

The United States has become a global powerhouse for billion-dollar companies, helping its stock market to far outvalue the world's leading economies due to its deep capital markets and regulatory support.