Huawei

9 statements across 7 episodes · 4 bullish · 4 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jul 25, 2024 by Brad Gerstner · said 48 times in 13 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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brought up most by Brad Gerstner (33), Bill Gurley (15)

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Everything said about Huawei, oldest first

Jul 25, 2024 bearish
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Gerstner: Chinese AV developers are three years behind Tesla FSD
“She said, you know, they're still catching up to FSD 11. Now remember, FSD 11 was, so they're like three years behind on full self-driving. Those were still the deterministic models before the big breakthrough of 12.3.”
Brad Gerstner Jul 25, 2024 ▶ 1:06:32 Ep13. Silicon Valley’s Political 180, META AI, COVID Postmortem | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Mar 2, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Gerstner: US diffusion rules guarantee global adoption of Huawei AI chips
“And it almost guarantees a Huawei level belt and road initiative around the world. And the world's going to run on Huawei AI chips, which gives them then the demand That they need to build a frontier AI chip.”
Brad Gerstner Mar 2, 2025 ▶ 36:52 Grok 3, AI Memory & Voice, China, DOGE, Public Market Pull Back | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Mar 21, 2025 bearish
Assertion Supported
Gerstner: China No Longer Depends on Nvidia for AI Inference
“BYD is designing a better car, and CATL is designing a better battery, and their glow, their vertically integrated supply chain around semiconductors no longer is dependent upon NVIDIA for inference. Now they're running inference at DeepSeq on the Ascend nine …”
Brad Gerstner Mar 21, 2025 ▶ 8:38 NVDA GTC, M&A Wiz / Goog $32 B Deal, April 2 Tariff Uncertainty; Huawei Belt & Road; ChatGPT | BG2 · Bg2 Pod
Mar 21, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Gerstner: US AI Export Rules Will Help Huawei Dominate Global Markets
“This diffusion rule will make it hard for us to get chips to Saudi Arabia, to the UAE, to India, to, you know, our friends in, in Southeast Asia, and it makes it hard through this regulatory capture that some of the US CSPs put in place, you know, all these ho…”
Brad Gerstner Mar 21, 2025 ▶ 1:01:34 NVDA GTC, M&A Wiz / Goog $32 B Deal, April 2 Tariff Uncertainty; Huawei Belt & Road; ChatGPT | BG2 · Bg2 Pod
Apr 24, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Gerstner: Huawei AI chips already surpass Nvidia's H20 performance
“And we just unilaterally disarmed around that in a way that doesn't even advantage us against Huawei because their chips are already surpassing the H.”
Brad Gerstner Apr 24, 2025 ▶ 45:19 Tariffs, Free Trade, Export Controls, H20 & Rare Earth Ban | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
May 22, 2025 positive
Opinion
Gerstner: China already has frontier AI and cannot be stopped
“My opinion, and I think you share this, is China already has frontier AI. Huawei is already there. We have demonstrable evidence of that. And their models are already there. Arguably, their open source models might even be in front of the United States at this…”
Brad Gerstner May 22, 2025 ▶ 29:35 AI, Middle East, China, Tariffs, Recon Bill, Invest America | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
May 22, 2025 positive
Opinion
Gerstner: The US should sell AI chips to China to protect the CUDA ecosystem
“Are we better off selling to those countries, those companies, keeping companies like ByteDance and Tencent, et cetera, in the CUDA ecosystem, rather than allowing all of that data, all of those profits to flow right into the Huawei ecosystem and benefit the C…”
Brad Gerstner May 22, 2025 ▶ 29:59 AI, Middle East, China, Tariffs, Recon Bill, Invest America | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Jun 6, 2025 negative
Opinion
Gerstner: US Export Controls Probably Caused Huawei's Rapid Tech Catch-Up
“The export controls on, on, on, on China probably is what caused Huawei to catch up so quickly.”
Brad Gerstner Jun 6, 2025 ▶ 34:49 China, AI Immigration, Rare Earths & Chips, Tariffs, Markets | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Aug 28, 2025 bullish
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Gurley: Shenzhen entrepreneurial energy remains high despite reports of startup slump
“A lot of the locals heavily dispute that Financial Times graph that was going around about the number of startups. They said it just mismeasured the whole thing. And so, no, I don't sense that there's any lack of enthusiasm from entrepreneurs in towns like She…”
Bill Gurley Aug 28, 2025 ▶ 59:19 China, China, China. Breaking Down China’s Tech Surge | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
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