Picture this, Oct. 11 -- You want to buy a car worth Rs.10 lakh, but you don't have the money. The dealer says they will lend the money if the car is bought from them. Sounds convenient, right? But also a bit... circular?

Well, that's essentially what's happening in the AI industry right now, except we're not talking about Rs.10 lakh. We're talking about a trillion dollars.

And the craziest part? These deals have already added over $1 trillion to the market capitalizations of the companies involved. Let's break down this financial merry-go-round.

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has been on a tear recently. In 2025 alone, it signed deals worth roughly $1 trillion for computing power. Yes, you read that right. A trillion dollars.

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