Nvidia, the chip maker, is at $5 trillion and Microsoft at $3.6 trillion. The company reported that Amazon Web Services grew net sales by 36.7 per cent compared with a year earlier, to $42.2 billion. Group net sales rose 20 per cent to $200.6 billion and operating income rose 43 per cent to $27.5 billion. “The big scepticism coming into earnings season was if they [hyperscalers] were turning the spigot down on spending on AI. Amazon was co-founded by Jeff Bezos, who remains the largest shareholder with a stake of close to 9 per cent.