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The AI craze continues to take the market by storm, with investors showing unprecedented interest in the technology since ChatGPT’s debut a mere eight months ago. It’s easy to see why the market has become so excited. The AI sector is expected to grow by 42% p.a. over the next decade, with the initial surge coming from businesses providing the necessary infrastructure to train AI systems, followed by applications and devices that use AI.

The widespread adoption of the conversational chatbot ChatGPT has triggered a gold rush among tech giants. Alphabet, Microsoft, Baidu, and Meta have all swarmed in to capitalise on generative AI technologies capable of creating texts, images, videos, audios, and even software codes. But investing in generative AI is not as simple as picking the right tech trend, like the cloud, electric vehicles, or blockchain. There is a long value chain to consider.

ChatGPT, the AI bot that took the internet by storm, is getting better and smarter. From a standing start in November, it has grown to more than 153 million users.* The fastest-growing consumer application is also the most intelligent yet, with Microsoft claiming its latest update is "strikingly close to human-level performance."