GPU

also referred to as: gpus

14 statements across 11 episodes · 6 bullish · 2 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Apr 29, 2024 by Brad Gerstner · across every show →

Everything said about GPU, oldest first

Apr 29, 2024 bullish
Prediction Held up
Gerstner: The GPU shortage will not turn into a glut in 2024
“Every supply shortage does ultimately result in a glut. But people have been calling for this glut now for you know, 12 months anyway. And they're calling for it again this year. We're not going to see it again this year.”
Brad Gerstner Apr 29, 2024 ▶ 52:56 Ep8. AI Models, Data Scaling, Enterprise & Personal AI | BG2 with Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Sep 25, 2024 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Gerstner: Nvidia's 2025 stock hinges on shipping 6M versus 4.5M GPUs
“You know, we're kind of at, You know, six million GPUs for next year. The bearish people are at like four and a half million. Like the numbers will ultimately tell if they do six million next year, the stock's going higher. If they do four and a half million, …”
Brad Gerstner Sep 25, 2024 ▶ 1:04:12 Ep16. Nuclear Update, AI Fast & Furious, State of VC | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Oct 13, 2024 bullish
Prediction Held up
Huang: The AI industry will with certainty require millions of GPUs
“If you just did that math and you compound it with, you add, you compound that with four X per year, On model size and computing size. And then on the other hand, demand continues to grow in usage. Do we think that we need millions of GPUs? No doubt. Yeah, tha…”
Jensen Huang Oct 13, 2024 ▶ 53:15 Ep17. Welcome Jensen Huang | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Oct 13, 2024 bullish
Assertion Supported
Huang: A 100,000-GPU Cluster Is Easily the Fastest Supercomputer on Earth
“A 100,000 GPUs, that's, you know, easily the fastest supercomputer on the planet. That's one cluster.”
Jensen Huang Oct 13, 2024 ▶ 50:29 Ep17. Welcome Jensen Huang | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Oct 13, 2024 negative
Insight
Jensen Huang: GPU makers have no clue how to build accelerated computing
“Somebody who's really, really good at building GPUs have no clue how to be an accelerated computing company.”
Jensen Huang Oct 13, 2024 ▶ 45:34 Ep17. Welcome Jensen Huang | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Dec 12, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Nadella expects AI to lower total people costs while raising cost per head
“So I think headcount will, in fact, one of the ways I look at it and say is our total people costs will go down, our cost per head will go up, And my GPU per researcher will go up.”
Satya Nadella Dec 12, 2024 ▶ 55:38 Satya Nadella | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Dec 23, 2024 neutral
Opinion
Gerstner: Data centers and power, not GPUs, are the real bottleneck
“What I think it was more a assessment on the real bottleneck, which is data centers and power as opposed to GPUs because GPUs have come online.”
Brad Gerstner Dec 23, 2024 ▶ 22:13 AI Semiconductor Landscape feat. Dylan Patel | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Jan 23, 2025
Assertion Supported
Gerstner: Deploying two million GPUs requires about 2.7 gigawatts of power
“To stand up two billion or two million GPUs in 2026, you need about 2.7 gigs, gigawatts of power, right?”
Brad Gerstner Jan 23, 2025 ▶ 11:14 Stargate, Executive Orders, TikTok, DOGE, Public Valuations | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Apr 4, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Gerstner: Cutting-edge GPUs will be used for training two years, then inference
“When you talk about two years for GPUs, they're going to, cutting edge GPUs are going to be used for cutting edge training for the, you know, frontier models in that first two year period. But all these things are going to continue to get used for inference.”
Brad Gerstner Apr 4, 2025 ▶ 58:14 Liberation Day, Tariffs, US v China Open Source, OpenAI, $CRWV, TikTok | BG2 · Bg2 Pod
Sep 11, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wu: OpenAI is currently operating in a GPU crunch
“We are in a GPU crunch, so we'll see how, you know, how long that goes.”
Sherwin Wu Sep 11, 2025 ▶ 54:05 Inside OpenAI Enterprise: Forward Deployed Engineering, GPT-5, and More | BG2 Guest Interview · Bg2 Pod
Sep 26, 2025
Assertion Supported
Huang: A One-Gigawatt AI Data Center Requires 400,000 to 500,000 GPUs
“When your customers deploy a gigawatt, that's a, you know, 400,500 thousand GPUs. Getting 500,000 GPUs to work together is a miracle.”
Jensen Huang Sep 26, 2025 ▶ 39:27 NVIDIA: OpenAI, Future of Compute, and the American Dream | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Oct 31, 2025
Insight
Nadella: AI chat unit economics differ fundamentally from search due to per-query GPU costs
“Search was pretty magical in terms of its ad unit and its cost economics, because there was the index, which was a fixed cost that you could then amortize in a much more efficient way. Whereas this one, you know, each chat to your point, you have to burn a lot…”
Satya Nadella Oct 31, 2025 ▶ 1:01:02 All things AI w @altcap @sama & @satyanadella. A Halloween Special. 🎃🔥BG2 w/ Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Mar 15, 2026 neutral
Insight
Turley: AI product planning should work backwards from GPU constraints
“It's useful to start with the most zero sum trade off when you do your planning. So I think starting working backwards from GPUs is usually pretty, pretty good idea.”
Nick Turley Mar 15, 2026 ▶ 40:46 ChatGPT – The Super Assistant Era | BG2 Guest Interview · Bg2 Pod
Mar 15, 2026 bullish
Assertion Supported
Turley: AI demand and token consumption increase despite falling prices
“When you just look at token consumption per user especially in the enterprise too, which is, you know a massive opportunity. You see a lot of very GPU hungry, hungry workflows, and yes, demand keeps going up even as prices go down.”
Nick Turley Mar 15, 2026 ▶ 39:44 ChatGPT – The Super Assistant Era | BG2 Guest Interview · Bg2 Pod
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