I don’t know about forever, but there’s a reason all these companies gave so much money to Trump. I think it can keep going up a while.

I've got, and you likely as well, a lifetime ouvre which shows that dot com was, in fact a new paradigm.

"no viable business model for AI materializes"

Literally every aspect of commerce is exposed and the costs are arbitrarily scalable and diminishing over time.

I'm really curious for you to elaborate on this world where AI progress is a dead end in the evolution of man or intelligence

By analogy, think about the government. They've been printing money since August 1971, the price of gold has increased from $35 to $4000, and people still accept dollars rather than gold, and even Switzerland sold their gold because they believe that paper money is better. THe party can last forever!