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Chernin: AI infrastructure is not a bubble, capacity will scale 10-100x
“No, I don't believe it's a bubble. I mean, Define the bubble. Do I believe that we will need tens or hundreds times more to build? I fairly believe.”
Chernin: Bare metal AI compute has only a dozen global customers
“On bare metal level, you have maybe a dozen of the customers in the world that you can work with. On managed infrastructure, there are hundreds. On inference, there are thousands. On agentic, there will be tens of thousands of new developers that build it, rig…”
Chernin: Future AI compute demand will be driven by traditional enterprises
“We believe long-term better positioning for going to enterprises where we believe eventually a lot of demand will come from. Again, now most of our segment is working. It's AI natives working with AI natives, but we have a huge economics, a huge market of ente…”
Chernin: AI model progress is far from hitting a scaling wall
“I'm a believer that we're quite far from the wall and we will see a lot of like models improvement happening. I think that what we also see is much more new, like modalities and specialized models coming in game.”
Chernin: Nebius had its best sales week during DeepSeek market selloff
“So I remember that Nebel stock went down 40% in one week or so in February, I think it was February or March, 20, 24, or 2025. And anecdotal story, the same exact week, we probably had the best week in sales.”
Chernin: Cheaper AI intelligence drives higher compute consumption via Jevons paradox
“Every time we got intelligence cheaper. This, the same unit of intelligence cheaper. We are not reducing the consumption, but we increasing the consumption because we can just Solve more complex tasks with the same budget, or we can finally economically viably…”
Chernin: AI infrastructure companies must reach massive scale to survive
“We are infrastructure company. We need to be large. If you are not large enough, nobody needs us to exist.”
Chernin: Model optimizations lower token costs by an order of magnitude
“We see all these optimizations that happening that changes the price of the tokens in order of magnitude.”
Chernin: Revolut initially spent 99% of its AI inference budget on OpenAI
“We have the customer of Revolut. And when we started working with them, I think 99 percent of their budget, inference budget was in closed models in OpenAI.”
Chernin: Sovereign AI discussions focus too much on power over software builders
“And I think it was too much concentrated around like mega megawatts and power rather than on what we have on the build. Builders layer.”
Chernin: Earning NVIDIA's respect requires engineering-level alignment
“NVIDIA is still for big extent is an engineers driven company. And I think the best thing you can do To get respect from Nvidia. It's my read. They may have a different point of view, but if engineers in Nvidia respect your engineers, you will have the right f…”
Chernin: Space-based compute infrastructure will eventually become a reality
“So many smart people are trying to solve this task and bring compute to the space that why wouldn't I believe it will happen?”
Chernin: Independent developer demand will prevent total AI market consolidation
“I think that there are so many people that Want to build something independently, let's say, like there is a lot of people with the need to try things and build new things that it's organically creates this pressure and organically creates more diversified wor…”
Chernin: Capital cannot fix short-term AI compute execution limits
“In the next six months, the capital cannot help. Six months is too short time. You have what you have, you need to deliver.”
Chernin: Enterprise AI integration is currently in initial single-digit percentages
“If you take any company in the world today and you will see, we'll look at the AI adoption there, you will actually see that they start using AI. In a first percents of the volume in the first percents of the use cases. So if you take any large company, even p…”
Chernin: Managed inference shifts AI billing from GPU hours to tokens
“Now we speak in tokens. It's not you pay for GPRs. You consume tokens and you can build your applications, not thinking in terms of the clusters underneath.”
Chernin: Future AI infrastructure will be purchased based on task execution
“So this is the next layer when developer would maybe not even think in terms of particular, you know, types of the tokens, but things in terms of end-to-end execution of their task.”
Chernin: Enterprise AI adoption will explode once evaluation cold-start issues resolve
“And I think we'll see a lot of explosive growth in enterprises, in the digital, including like in the cloud companies, in the cloud native companies like Revolut, Shopify, Prosus. Booking.com. When they solve this cold start problem, they build the system, how…”