Amazon enters $3 trillion club as AI, cloud growth power rally

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Reuters

Mon, August 3, 2026 astatine 8:45 AM CDT 1 min read

Aug 3 (Reuters) - Amazon's marketplace worth topped $3 trillion for the archetypal clip connected Monday, helped by a crisp rally ‌following beardown net and signs that the AI roar is ‌driving caller request for its cloud-computing services, the company's main nett engine.

Its shares were past up 5.5% astatine $286.20, hitting a grounds precocious and taking their yearly gains to implicit 23%.

The Seattle-based e-commerce and unreality computing giant's banal surged 15% connected Friday aft it delivered its strongest unreality maturation ‌in much than 4 ⁠years and raised its yearly superior spending forecast.

Amazon and Microsoft are the lone 2 of the "Magnificent Seven" ⁠companies, retired of the six that person reported truthful far, whose AI spending has paid disconnected successful investors' eyes. Tesla, Alphabet and Meta were punished as their monolithic spending plans deed free currency travel past quarter.

Along ‌with different tech giants connected Wall Street, Amazon has been pouring billions to physique retired its AI infrastructure. It disclosed a caller concern successful Anthropic successful April, which follows Amazon's announcement earlier this twelvemonth that it would put up to $50 cardinal successful OpenAI.

It took ‌just implicit 2 years for the company, founded by Jeff Bezos backmost successful 1994, to adhd different trillion dollars to its marketplace worth aft hitting a $2 ‌trillion valuation for the archetypal time successful June 2024.

Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet and Nvidia are the different companies that person recorded a marketplace worth of $3 trillion successful the past. Nvidia is presently the ‌world's biggest institution with a marketplace capitalization adjacent to $5 trillion.

(Reporting by Shashwat Chauhan and Purvi Agarwal successful Bengaluru; Editing by Devika Symnath and Shinjini Ganguli)

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