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Patel: Buying AI GPUs resembles buying cocaine via informal networks
“How you buy GPUs is like buying cocaine. You call up a couple people, you text a couple people, you ask, yo, how much you got? What's the price?”
Patel: Energy and data centers are NVIDIA's primary growth bottleneck
“Do you invest in data centers and energy? Yeah. Do you invest in, because that's the bottleneck for your growth really is, is A, well, how much people want to spend and can spend, and B, the ability to actually put them in data centers.”
Patel: AI chip startups need a 5x hardware advantage to beat NVIDIA
“Because the supply chain stuff means that five X actually turns into a two and a half X, and then NVIDIA can compress their margin a little bit if you're actually competitive. And then that two and a half X becomes like a 50% better. And then, yeah, so it's li…”
Patel: Traditional ad monetization models fail for AI assistants
“In any other application consumer app, the free user still pays via ads. But this is not compatible with AI, right? Like, it's a helpful assistant. You can't just make the users result worse by injecting ads. Banner ads don't really work in AI either, so it's …”
Patel: Capital equipment represents 80% of Blackwell data center costs
“80% of the cost of a GPU data center if you're building Blackwell is capital. Yeah. Right? It's the GPU purchases, it's the networking, it's the physical data center conversion, power conversion equipment. All of this stuff is like 80% of the cost. And then, 2…”