"AI Winter is Already Here" — Wrong in 6 Weeks Flat

In early March, Srivastava published a detailed Medium piece warning that the AI boom had peaked and winter was upon us. Model updates were breaking systems. Debugging took longer than actual development. The gold rush was over.

Six weeks later? OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and Nebius are all shipping major releases. AI startups are securing $100M+ rounds. Enterprise adoption is accelerating, not slowing. Token costs are dropping. The chaos he described? Turned out to be the messy reality of rapidly iterating on cutting-edge tech—not a sign of collapse.

The irony: Real winters happen when investment dries up. This winter, the funding never stopped. The only thing aging here is Srivastava's credibility.