Many people question whether the current artificial intelligence boom will end in the same way that the dotcom bubble burst.

It’s understandable, as there are many similarities, especially with the exuberance seen this past week in the stock market following Nvidia Corp.’s earnings print. Although it’s easy to dismiss AI as a completely different era, there are some stark similarities that are worth remembering.

Like all waves, there are also major differences. Two of the most evident are the speed of innovation and the quality of today’s companies leading the AI charge. Like the internet, AI will be ubiquitous and available for virtually all organizations to leverage, not just traditional tech firms. As well, many patterns of the dotcom era are repeating and worth examining in more detail.

In this Breaking Analysis, we look back at the events leading up to the dotcom and AI booms and analyze the similarities and differences between these two transformative eras.