Paul Tudor Jones says AI bull market has 'another year or two to run'

Paul Tudor Jones said the artificial intelligence-fueled bull market still has room to run, comparing the current moment in the technology cycle to the early days of the personal computer and internet revolutions.

The billionaire hedge fund manager said recent advances in AI resemble the emergence of transformative technologies such as Microsoft’s early software dominance in the 1980s and the commercialization of the internet in the mid-1990s, periods that ushered in years of productivity gains and market upside.

“I kind of think Claude, January of this year, would be the equivalent of when Microsoft came out in ’81,” Jones said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” Thursday.

Jones, founder and chief investment officer of Tudor Investment, compared the current phase of AI adoption to 1995, when commercial use of the internet accelerated alongside the launch of Windows 95.

“Those were both the beginning of productivity miracles that lasted four to five and a half years,” Jones said. “We’re kind of, I’d say, 50 or 60%. If I had to pick a period, we’ve got another year or two to run.”

Jones said he has added to AI investments, though he did not specify when the purchases were made or which stocks he bought.

“I’m a macro trader, so I just buy baskets, and what I would simply say is, it’s a crazy, crazy time. …I love always to find historical precedents,” he said.

Jones shot to fame after he predicted and profited from the 1987 stock market crash. He is also the chairman of nonprofit Just Capital, which ranks public U.S. companies based on social and environmental metrics.

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