compute
8 statements across 8 episodes · 1 bullish · 4 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Aug 26, 2023 by David Friedberg · across every show →
Everything said about compute, oldest first
Aug 26, 2023 negative
Mar 29, 2025 bearish
Sep 10, 2025 neutral
Musk: AI intelligence scales logarithmically with 10x compute doubling performance
“I think there's a natural logarithmic function associated with the amount of compute. So then, like, say for argument's sake, like, hen x more compute will double the intelligence. Maybe that's, that might be a rough rule of thumb.”
Mar 23, 2026 bullish
Apr 17, 2026 bearish
Chamath: OpenAI and Anthropic revenue growth will stall without enough compute
“I think if you play this out, the real problem, again, goes back to Anthropic and OpenAI. If I were them, it is a five alarm fire for them. They more than anybody else needs to get their hands on compute. They need to have LAN PowerShell, but otherwise that re…”
May 1, 2026 neutral
Jul 30, 2026 neutral
Sacks: Rising compute prices will advantage high-efficiency frontier AI models
“I think that the price of compute is going to go up and that will provide an advantage to The models that have the most lucrative algorithms that are able to produce the most intelligence per watt or the most intelligence per token or per GPU.”
Aug 21, 2026 bearish
Chamath: Frontier AI labs are most vulnerable to capital and compute crunches
“Where does that leave frontier model companies? They're the most at risk. Why? Because they're not investment grade. They're in the worst position in terms of their balance sheets. They're not in a position to then get access to the compute. They need to be su…”