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OpenAI or Anthropic Will Exceed $10 Trillion Valuation Within Five Years
“I could definitely see one of them being a 10 trillion dollar company maybe even significantly higher. It feels Like the opportunity associated with being the frontier model is so large that it will just like eat up so much of the other demand within the econo…”
O'Driscoll: Anthropic Will Pass OpenAI in Scale and Profitability Shortly
“Within a couple of quarters, Anthropic will be visibly and obviously ahead. Profitable, growing more quickly, and bigger.”
Jason Lemkin: SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic combined IPO values will top past 20 years
“The big three, SpaceX plus OpenAI plus Anthropic, their value at IPO will exceed every other IPO for the last 20 years combined.”
Randle: OpenAI could raise at a $1T valuation next year
“I think it'll be a trillion dollar company next year. Yes. I think they could probably raise at the end of the year. Ah, you know, end of the year Q two, I think open AI could raise it a trillion dollars. No problem.”
Casado: OpenAI Lost Its Early Leads In Code, Image, And Video Generation
“OpenAI was the first to code, right? With GitHub Copilot. I mean, they provided the weights. As far as I know, and they lost that. And they were first to image with Dali, and they lost that. And they were the first to video with Sora. And as far as I can tell,…”
Anthropic will IPO soon after pulling ahead of OpenAI's ChatGPT
“They will go public because this is peak brass ring moment, and you know, you could argue the trends in 27 are tougher. You've pulled ahead of ChatGPT, so just put a nail in the entropic pit, right? You've pulled ahead of ChatGPT comfortably, OpenAI, to a poin…”
O'Driscoll: Google Search ad dollars will shift to OpenAI
“Their cash cow, which kicks off 200 and forty-odd billion a year of revenue, which is the ads business, Isn't the best product on the market anymore, and some of those dollars will go to open AI, and because it's better real estate.”
Lemkin: SpaceX, Canva, Databricks, and Anthropic will IPO in 2026
“I think we see four IPOs backloaded next year. SpaceX goes out first. Canva comes out of nowhere second. Databricks does it in the back half of the year because it's just time. Anthropic does it at the end of the year. OpenAI probably should have gone first, b…”
Rory O'Driscoll: Anthropic will reach profitability and IPO while OpenAI faces overcommitment
“I think the difference between Anthropix and OpenAI is, OpenAI has more ambition, perhaps, but it's more likely to just get caught In the middle with commitments it can't meet. Whereas I think Entropic is very sensibly and boringly converging on profitability,…”
Lemkin: Competitors will never catch ChatGPT's revenue lead
“ChatGPT has pulled away. You cannot catch it. No matter what anybody says, you will never catch that revenue.”
Sivulka: Fine-tuned models will never catch up to inference scaling
“And so you saw the idea of, ah, of post training or kind of like this refined, verticalized model creation, ah, just always would lose to scaling laws. And maybe we're at the end of scaling laws at training, but I actually think, you know, Hebbia and now OpenA…”
Cahn: ChatGPT Is Now a $3.4 Billion Revenue Business
“Definitely OpenAI. I mean, OpenAI has a brand, it has consumer distribution, it has product market fit with ChatGBT, which is a 3.4 billion dollar revenue business now. I think ChatGBT will definitely be around. Yeah, I think a bunch of the others will too for…”
Stebbings: OpenAI and Anthropic Will Reach $1 Trillion to $2 Trillion Valuations
“Both will be trillion dollar plus, potentially close to two trillion.”
Angelopoulos: Nvidia is probably leading the race to a $10T valuation
“I think it's hard to say not NVIDIA. I think NVIDIA is probably in the lead there.”
AI Labs Will Not Compete In Regulated Complex Industries
“I think things that have some, like, regulation around them, and are, like, complex industries, yes, they're gonna see the advantages of the models, but they're not gonna see competition from Anthropik or OpenAI.”
Lemkin: OpenAI will likely cancel or pause its hardware project
“Listen, if I had to breathe the tea leaves, hardware is probably on the bubble. This was one of Sam's initiatives that made sense when everything was working and OpenAI had an unassailable lead over, over its competitors, right? Now everything's, you know, we …”
O'Driscoll: AI capex spending will be stopped by demand, not supply
“This isn't, this spending isn't going to stop because the supply side says stop. Facebook aren't going to say stop. Google isn't going to say stop. Microsoft isn't going to say stop. Really, it boils down to the demand side. As long as, and enterprise customer…”
O'Driscoll: Elon Musk's OpenAI Lawsuit Appeal Will Fail
“He's going to appeal it. It won't get a second past Appeal, and it'll go away, right?”
Jason Lemkin predicts OpenAI will reach $100B in ad revenue
“I like this as a goal for 2030 because it's clear what people should be doing... And so I think because it is achievable, it will be achieved. I actually think it will be achieved.”
Reyna: OpenAI, Google, and ElevenLabs will buy new foundational model startups
“OpenAI and Anthropic will end up, and Google will end up buying, and 11 Labs will end up buying, like, all of the new foundational model companies that will be popping up and creating research and paying just, like, a few billion here, a few billion there, and…”
Stebbings: OpenAI will IPO in October 2026 at $1.5 trillion valuation
“I'm going to say October and I'm going to say it's going to go out at 1.5 trillion.”
Emberikos: OpenAI aims for AI agents that run micro-systems without human review
“So, like, I think we want to get to a world where you can have an agent that is un-bottlenecked, right? That you trust to, like, own an entire microsystem or internal tool or whatever, and can do the full iterative loop, including feedback from users, without …”
Lemkin: Custom chip competition will not threaten Nvidia's dominance in 2026
“You're a fool to invest against Nvidia for 2026. And I think you are arguably a fool to invest into Amazon in 20, 26 for a simple reason. Just a simple, I didn't say 20, 27 or 20, 28. It is not enough time for all this competition to come online. It is not eno…”
Lemkin: OpenAI's IPO will be delayed until mid-2027 as Altman secures alternative financing
“I think that's a good idea. I think Sam will come up with so much alternative financing. It'll slip into mid 27, but I think that's the straw man today would be my guess. Like that's the plan, but there'll be so much, so many other sources of maybe the governm…”
O'Driscoll: OpenAI will reach a $1 trillion valuation in two years
“On the current trajectory, maybe all I can answer is on the current trajectory and without the euphoria Jason mentioned, it's probably two years because, you know, you do get some attenuation of growth at scale and, you know, at the current thing that, I mean,…”
Lemkin: OpenAI will be the most popular retail IPO in history
“I just can't think of a retail IPO that would be more popular than open AI, right? Just bringing everyone out of the woodwork to put a little bit of their life savings to do it, to ignore the, even if the valuation makes no sense. I just, this would have to be…”
O'Driscoll: OpenAI must hit $200B-$300B revenue or AI market faces severe crash
“One of two things is going to happen in the next five or seven years, right? Either A, you know, you are going to see pretty profound productivity changes. You're going to see companies like OpenAI literally being two to three hundred billion dollars in revenu…”
Ross: OpenAI, Anthropic, and all hyperscalers will build custom chips
“I have no doubt that OpenAI will be able to build its own chips. I have no doubt that eventually, Anthropic will be building their own chips, that every hyperscaler will build their own chip.”
O'Driscoll: Oracle will not collect $300B from OpenAI in 5-6 years
“Do I think the full last three hundred billion dollars will be wired in five or six years? No. I very much doubt it.”
Lemkin: CoreWeave will show signs of an AI slowdown before hyperscalers
“Core weave, if core weave struggles, if it can't service its debt, if it can't raise more debt through this weird through, through the hyperscalers guaranteeing it, that's where we'll see, even if there's just a bump in this cycle, that's not that, that doesn'…”
Junestrand: OpenAI will win the consumer AI productivity market
“Now, I think the majority bucket here is in the general productivity for the general consumer, and I think OpenAI is going to win that game.”
O'Driscoll: OpenAI Will Hit $1T-$2T Valuation via Subscriptions and Ads
“Looks like its market share is pretty hard to change at this stage. So you start multiplying. You know, you'll have a paid tier of 20 bucks times a lot of people. You'll at some point have an advertising tier, and plus or minus your Google with a subscription …”
Mignot: European LLM market will definitely be smaller than OpenAI
“I think there is a market. You know, is it gonna be smaller than OpenAI? Yes. For sure.”
O'Driscoll: OpenAI will not surpass an $800B valuation by late 2026
“Under. I'll tell you what I'm doing mentally. I'm just, I mean, there's no logic. I'm just looking at the step ups in the rounds as you'd expect are getting smaller, right? You know, you get two or five X and then you have, you go from 80 to one 50, which is a…”
O'Driscoll: OpenAI and Anthropic are the only AI startups that will survive
“The clear three, the two people who are clearly going to be at the table as startups when this is done are OpenAI and Entropic. It, it's hard to imagine beyond that.”
Wu: Private AI foundation labs will far exceed $500B aggregate valuation
“If you add all their valuations today, what is that? Like, 500 B, something like that? I think that's gonna go way up in the next five years.”
O'Driscoll: OpenAI and Jony Ive device will sell under 5M units initially
“Will the device sell more than five million units in the first full year of shipping? And I would take the under.”
O'Driscoll: OpenAI's hardware effort will fizzle within three to five years
“And then my predict, my guess is statistically the likely outcome just based on the priors of the other companies in the space is three, five years later, it turns into a fizzle. It was, it wasn't product. It didn't pan out”
O'Driscoll: Four or more venture exits will top $65B in 5-7 years
“If there's not four exits, Above sixty five billion in the next five or seven years, then the people who bought Stripe, SpaceX, Databricks, OpenAI and Antropic are screwed. So I don't think they're screwed. So I think there's going to be, this trend is going t…”
Stebbings: OpenAI Will Reach a $1.5T to $2T Valuation
“I am so sure that open AI is going to be a one and a half to two trillion dollar company right now.”
Socher: Expects to win $1,000 bet that AGI won't arrive by 2027
“We did this bet and in the bet he has to win. I think it ends in 20, 27. So three things have to be true. We have to have a personal robot that cleans the whole house the way my cleaning team does. And it needs to be purchasable, like for reasonable amounts of…”
Ramaswamy: Legal AI Startup Harvey Will Not Be Disrupted by OpenAI
“I think Harvey is a great company. I don't think it's going to get disrupted by open AI.”
Hamid: OpenAI will figure out gross margins and become highly profitable
“Today it's not a great business, but, you know, I think they're smart enough to figure out how they can get to a gross margin that will allow them to be a highly profitable business over time.”
Srinivas: OpenAI and Anthropic will not get acquired
“I think with OpenAI and Anthropic, the value of the value of those companies is not in the models they have. That is a very first-order approximation. I think the second-order approximation is it's in the machine that's building the machine. That specific grou…”
Seibert: Open-source LLMs will become the 'Android' to OpenAI's 'Apple'
“So the closed may win in terms of having the most advanced model, but I think the Apple versus Android comparison is exactly accurate. So you're going to have something proprietary that might be best because it can be fully vertically integrated. They have, th…”
Seibert: OpenAI will evolve into an infrastructure platform like AWS
“I view OpenAI probably evolving more into an infrastructure company like AWS.”
Des Traynor: AI infrastructure will consolidate into 3-4 price-competing providers
“They'll probably be three or four big providers is my guess. You'll be probably GCP, AWS, maybe OpenAI directly, and I'm sure Azure. That's how I think that layer will play out, and they'll end up in pretty direct price competition with each other.”