Something's Gotta Give
What happens when the biggest technology trend is built on economics that don't make any sense when viewed end-to-end? Eventually, some aspect has to change, but which one?
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WHERE ARE THE BIGGEST AI RISKS?
- Jensen Huang (NVIDIA CEO) is convinced that the future will be built on always having the most advanced GPUs and Frontier Models.
- Oracle is telling investors that they will significantly increase profit margins between now and 2028-30, although they have low margins now and they don’t make high margins on older chips
- The economics of AI (reasoning models, high#s of AI tokens) is in contrast to the established SaaS business model.
- Right now everything AI-associated has a high valuation, but these forces are working against each other.
- Which one is going to give first?
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