Imo the single most bearish chart for the AI trade here
Inference in only ~37% of compute usage
Source @SemiAnalysis_
1) Trying again.
TLDR: Everyone can win. Open-source, frontier labs, infrastructure, applications and most importantly the American people.
I understand all of the jitters about Anthropic losing share, real rates, spreads and second derivatives. Still think the most likely future outcome is a hybrid, multi-model future where almost everyone wins, open-weight tokens are likely the overwhelming majority of tokens, the dominant frontier model companies still do well albeit perhaps not the outcome that seemed possible in May and AI infrastructure/applications benefit immensely from the increased fragmentation, competition and lower margins at the model layer.
Lower margins at the model layer mechanically drive higher compute demand as long as someone is willing to pay for the training. And Jensen is obviously willing to be the “trainer of last resort.” As below-market compute contracts signed in 24/25 roll-off and reprice higher, cloud and neocloud revenue should continue to accelerate which will help address financing fears; I think we may be near peak external financing for this buildout. Noteworthy that using data from 3Fourteen Research, B200 clusters will generate a 37% IRR *if* their rental price declines 40% per year. Prices are still going up, but that IRR math is too ridiculous to print. 37% IRRs available at scale should get funded.
Re: this weekends controversy about MOUs, Anthropic’s $413 billion of real contractual commitments sounds scary. Reality is that it works out to roughly $31 billion of annual cloud spend, which is easily internally financed given their reported ARR, and $161 billion of spend at Broadcom which will be financed by Broadcom and private credit.
Continue to believe fragmentation at the model layer is the best outcome for ordinary Americans and humans everywhere. As I have said before, do not trust any 5-20 individuals to make the best possible decisions about the direction of this technology. I want as many AIs as possible to maximize the odds that they encompass the diversity of human values across the world and richness of human variation. And I want an AI that shares my own personal values. Safety, freedom and the maximization of human agency through democratization, distribution and diffusion vs. centralization. History has spoken on the dangers of the latter path.
Finally, from my perspective anything that slows this buildout down is net positive over the long-term as the biggest risk and worst outcome is an *actual* overbuild. We are structurally short watts, wafers and increasingly capital. That is all good. God forbid we were still in ZIRP, TSM ramped capex to 3x their current plan and we weren’t short turbine blades: there would almost certainly be an overbuild and a bubble. That would be terrible. Slower and smoother for longer is better both for investors and for the world. A terrible cyber event is the most plausible near term bear case IMHO, but AI cyberdefense ramping quickly and I was happy to hear Sholto say that cyber probably becomes defense dominant in the near future.
Longer, threaded version follows:
$TTWO “The engine, the tools and the team we’ve built during this project will allow us to do things more quickly”
$TTWO management hinted earlier PC version in late Sep as AI accelarating porting
This is good news as PC version out faster & lower cost
Earlier PC version has nothing to do with low console version demand
Management showcased it as a positive
Citi met $TTWO management. Key takeaways:
-focused on GTA online, no timeline given
-AI accelarating console to PC porting
-no weakness in mobile or NBA2K
Imo GTA online & PC version might come sooner than expected accelarated by AI
$META muse is going to fail
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$TTWO : BofA reiterates Buy, $368 PT, says current stock price of $209 too cheap with mobile free option
BofA splits out PC/Console-only EPS of $10.7 for FY28E, implying just 20x at current price versus peer multiples, with mobile upside unpriced. Estimates hold at 45mn GTA 6 units FY27E and $2.19bn GTAO Bookings FY28E. Biggest debate is the $1bn-$3bn Street spread on GTAO Bookings, tied to a Jan/Feb launch timing and a $200-250mn 2H RCS step-up.
$BKNG was supposed to be worst hit due to $META Muse
$BKNG app MAUs seems to be outperforming in Sep in US
GS "In the US, Booking.com (+19% YoY) & Priceline (+10% YoY) saw the most significant MAU growth in the quarter (Q3)."
$META Muse DAU estimate flat around 2mio for the past 10 days
the hype is abating
Thanks to the latest leaks, GTA6 is going to sell millions more at launch
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$META Muse is increasingly useless with agent blocks.
This weekend, best deal Fucker could get me on rental car was more for exact same rental via $BKNG website and significantly more than Booking app price.
Muse's price was over 25% higher. All of these were Hertz, same car model, same pickup location and airport drop-off.
Just now trying to have it handle an Amazon customer service issue and is blocked. I did hear they blocked Meta Muse but was thinking/hoping doing this via my PC browser would be different. Nope.
Muse is feeling a little bit overhyped at this point. Will be interesting to see if usage drops off as people hit a wall on what to do with it.



























