AI Gold Rush Tracker

    It's not really a valid comparison, but just to show how wackadoodle this is, stack this Top 50 against a year of economic output from all nations and states and this is how it looks.

    Comparing Gold Rushes

    An economic impact scorecard of how the original gold rush and the current AI gold rush impacted the city and the world

    Dimension1849–55Gold Rush2022–26AI Rush
    Sources for each figure are listed at the bottom of the page.