compute
8 statements across 4 episodes · 6 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Apr 4, 2024 by Brad Gerstner · across every show →
Everything said about compute, oldest first
Apr 4, 2024 bullish
Gerstner: Falling Compute Prices Will Massively Surge Aggregate Consumption
“If you drive down the price of the cost of compute, then the reflexivity is people will consume a lot more of it. Now, this is also known as the Jevons paradox, right? As price goes, goes down, we demand more of it. The aggregate amount of Consumed, of the com…”
Feb 5, 2025 bullish
Oct 31, 2025 neutral
Oct 31, 2025 bullish
Altman: A 100x drop in compute cost would trigger >100x demand surge
“If the price of compute per like unit of intelligence or whatever, however you want to think about it. Fell by a factor of a hundred tomorrow, you would see usage go up by much more than a hundred. And there'd be a lot of things that people would love to do wi…”
Oct 31, 2025 bullish
Oct 31, 2025 positive
Jun 11, 2026 neutral
Gerstner: Anthropic achieved accidental profitability due to compute spending constraints
“Atropic, no way did they think they were going to be anywhere close to breakeven. Right? In, in, in, in this part of the curve. And the reason, like I called it accidental profitability that, you know, people have been talking about that because they want to s…”