GPU

also referred to as: gpus

15 statements across 14 episodes · 8 bullish · 4 bearish · 10 people on the record · first statement Sep 1, 2022 by Chamath Palihapitiya · across every show →

Everything said about GPU, oldest first

Sep 1, 2022 positive
Insight
Palihapitiya: Moore's law didn't end, it just shifted to GPUs
“The way that he described it to me, which is so true the minute he said it, I was like, my gosh, it's like Moore's law never ended, it just shifted to GPUs.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Sep 1, 2022 ▶ 36:45 E94: NFT volume plummets, California's overreach, FBI meddling, climate change & national security
Oct 7, 2022 bullish
Insight
Chamath: Supercomputing growth continues unabated by shifting from CPUs to GPUs
“What you really see is that if you think about, you know, supercomputing power, so the ability to get to an answer that has actually continued unabated. And if you look at this chart, the reason why this is possible is entirely because we've shifted from CPUs …”
Chamath Palihapitiya Oct 7, 2022 ▶ 40:22 E99: Cheating scandals, Twitter updates, rapid AI advancements, Biden's pardon, Section 230 & more
Jul 1, 2023 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sacks: GPU shortage will not improve for 1-2 years
“We have a GPU shortage and it's probably not going to get better for a year or two, if that.”
David Sacks Jul 1, 2023 ▶ 55:47 E135: Wagner rebels, SCOTUS ends AA, AI M&A, startups gone bad, spacetime warps & more
Jan 4, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Baker predicts a massive shortage of GPUs and compute capacity in 2025
“We're going to run out of GPUs, accelerators, compute in 2025, the same way we did in 23.”
Gavin Baker Jan 4, 2025 ▶ 22:41 2025 Predictions: Tech, Business, Media, Politics!
Jan 25, 2025 bearish
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Lafont: A 10x power advantage for China would neutralize US chip superiority
“But if China, if one day China had 10 XR power capacity, it won't even matter, right? Because they'll just have so many more, whether they're not quite the same advanced GPUs or not, they'll just have so many more of them. Their industrial AI capacity will be …”
Thomas Laffont Jan 25, 2025 ▶ 1:35:47 Trump's First Week: Inauguration Recap, Executive Actions, TikTok, Stargate + Sacks is Back!
Jul 23, 2025 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Lisa Su: AI will assist GPU design rather than fully automate it
“I don't necessarily see the AI, you know, designing our next generation GPU. But I do see it helping us design the next generation GPU much faster and more reliably, so.”
Dr. Lisa Su Jul 23, 2025 ▶ 23:14 Winning the AI Race Part 3: Jensen Huang, Lisa Su, James Litinsky, Chase Lochmiller
Oct 10, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Gerstner: There will be no unused GPUs anywhere in the world next year
“There's not going to be a dark GPU in the world next year.”
Brad Gerstner Oct 10, 2025 ▶ 57:36 Trump Brokers Gaza Peace Deal, National Guard in Chicago, OpenAI/AMD, AI Roundtripping, Gold Rally
Jan 21, 2026 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Microsoft's Phi Silica AI model runs locally on Windows NPUs and GPUs
“Like today, there's a five silica model, which is completely resident using NPUs and of course using GPUs.”
Satya Nadella Jan 21, 2026 ▶ 24:22 Satya Nadella on AI’s Business Revolution: What Happens to SaaS, OpenAI, and Microsoft?
Jan 23, 2026 bullish
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Sacks: Every data center GPU is currently active and generating tokens
“There's no such thing as a dark GPU right now. Every GPU that's been put in a data center is getting used and it's being used to generate tokens.”
David Sacks Jan 23, 2026 ▶ 2:03 Inside America’s AI Strategy: Infrastructure, Regulation, and Global Competition
Jan 23, 2026 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Feldman: GPUs face a major inference bottleneck due to slow memory speed
“The GPU, for example, has a lot of capacity of memory, but it's really slow. All right, and that's a huge bottleneck in inference. It's why they can't be fast.”
Andrew Feldman Jan 23, 2026 ▶ 1:03:24 Coinbase CEO's Top 3 Crypto Trends for 2026 + More from Davos!
Mar 23, 2026
Disclosure
CoreWeave uses six-year GPU depreciation schedule and expects longer lifespans
“We use a six year depreciation. We believe that the GPUs will last in excess of six years, but we felt like that was a fair and reasonable approach to a technology cycle that's moving at this velocity.”
Michael Intrator Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 11:41 Four CEOs on the Future of AI: CoreWeave, Perplexity, Mistral, and IREN
Mar 23, 2026
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Roberts: There are currently no idle GPUs sitting in data centers globally
“There are no idle GPUs in the world sitting in a data center.”
Daniel Roberts Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 1:28:59 Four CEOs on the Future of AI: CoreWeave, Perplexity, Mistral, and IREN
May 1, 2026 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sacks: There are no dark GPUs sitting idle today
“There's no dark GPUs today, as you know, Brad Gerstner likes to say.”
David Sacks May 1, 2026 ▶ 47:03 OpenAI Misses Targets, Codex vs Claude, Elon vs Sam Trial, Big Hyperscaler Beats, Peptide Craze
May 22, 2026 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gavin Baker: Older GPUs have a useful life of 10 to 15 years
“All GPUs use Grok or Cerebrus for decode, and then those older GPUs, they have a useful life for 10 or 15 years, and this means that you can finance GPUs.”
Gavin Baker May 22, 2026 ▶ 1:21:07 SpaceX’s $2T Case, Nvidia’s Shock Selloff, America Turns on AI, Trump Pulls AI Order, Bond Crisis?
Jun 6, 2026 bullish
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Feldman: Cerebras is 15 to 18 times faster than a GPU for OpenAI
“So when OpenAI uses us, we're 15 or 18 times faster than a GPU.”
Andrew Feldman Jun 6, 2026 ▶ 23:57 The IPO Comeback: Why Tech Giants Are Finally Going Public | All-In Liquidity IPO Panel
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