The AI boom just found two new winners: Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase

Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan posted record quarterly revenue as AI-fueled trading, IPOs, debt offerings and M&A activity boosted equities trading and investment banking. Executives said AI is driving demand for financing worldwide, from data centers and power infrastructure to capital markets activity, creating what Goldman CEO David Solomon called an AI "capex super cycle." Helping the quarter, investors broadened out their search for AI beneficiaries, pouring money into Asian markets, including South Korea, Taiwan and Japan, Soofian Zubieri, president and co-head of Global Markets at Bank of America, told CNBC.

American megabanks on Tuesday gave evidence that the global artificial intelligence boom isn't just benefiting tech giants and chip makers. Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase each posted record quarterly revenue hauls, fueled by massive gains in equities trading and investment banking. Behind the surge in activity — Goldman revenue jumped 39% to $20.3 billion, while JPMorgan saw it rise 27% to $58 billion — is the fact that AI is "everywhere in financial markets," JPMorgan CFO Jeremy Barnum told reporters . "These are booming environments with a ton of activity, big IPOs, big index rebalancing, a lot of activity in Asia," Barnum said Tuesday. "A lot of it is downstream of the AI theme, writ large on a global basis. It's just a very, very, very active environment." The quarter showed that the AI boom is creating winners far beyond Silicon Valley. While Nvidia and hyperscalers including Alphabet have captured many of the headlines, Goldman, JPMorgan and other banks are profiting from the massive flows of capital into AI. They are advising on A...