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Huang: Restricting US immigration as a China hawk is unpatriotic
“It's almost like a badge of honor. It's a badge of shame. There's no question it's a badge of shame. There's no question that although they want what's in the best interest of our country, and we all want what's in the best interest of our country, destroying …”
Huang: China is 'nanoseconds behind' the US in AI capability
“And three, they're years behind us. Is it two years, three years? Come on, they're nanoseconds behind us.”
Gurley: Defense tech startups and Palantir profit from escalating China tensions
“You have the new kind of VC-backed defense companies who all, and maybe I kind of put Palantir in that group, but they all I think have an incentive To kind of have tension with China, if you will. It actually increases revenue. I call them the new neocons.”
Gurley: US policy to block China from AI is futile and backfired
“I think the policy of American, of the American government to try and keep China out of the AI game is futile. I've always felt that way. I don't think it'll work. In this case, I actually think it backfired.”
Ghodsi: We already have AGI based on historical definitions
“I think we have AGI. I think we have artificial general intelligence. We really have it. We absolutely have it. It's like, Anyone who says we need to get to AGI, that's like, it's a, it's false premise to start with. We already have AGI.”
Huang: $5 trillion annual global AI infrastructure CapEx is economically plausible
“So if you told me that on an annual basis, the CapEx of the world was about five trillion dollars, I would say the math seems to make sense.”
Huang: President Trump is right to maximize US tech exports
“I think President Trump's got it right, that we want to maximize exports. We want to maximize American influence around the world. We're supposed to maximize those things.”
Huang: Drop in Chinese students staying in US is existential crisis
“Definitely see a greater concern of Chinese students who come here and remain here. And, or many of them who come here for school and are thinking about going elsewhere. Many of them thinking about Europe. And so, so I think we need to be super, super concerne…”
Huang: Decoupling the US and China is entirely the wrong concept
“You can't decouple against the single most The two most important relationships for the next century. That doesn't make any sense at all. Decoupling is exactly the wrong concept.”
Gurley: High-profile companies face the highest risk in Delaware courts
“I think it's actually the highest profile companies that are at risk because they're the ones that, you know, an activist judge is going to want to make an exception out of.”
Gurley: Super-voting shares exist largely to block proxy advisor control
“One of the key reasons so many companies have super voting is so that these two companies can't tell them what to do”
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…”
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…”
Gurley: US must open borders wide to skilled Chinese immigrants
“And I've said, you know, for a long time, the number one thing we could do would be to open up our border for skilled immigration from China as wide as we possibly can.”
Gerstner: Trying to Block China From Frontier AI Is a Losing Strategy
“I think the distraction that we can keep China away from frontier level AI, that will be a losing strategy in my mind.”
Gurley: The US cannot 'win the AI war' because AI is an infinite game
“Almost everyone in the AI space that I see with a microphone in front of them says, The US has to win the AI war. I don't know what that means. And if I guess as to what it means, I don't think it's possible. And so. It's an infinite game, and no one that I ta…”
Gerstner: Breaking up Google's search monopoly in 2025 is ridiculous
“I always get a, you know, a laugh out of the fact that finally in 2025, the first time we've actually had competition for Google, like very clear that competition is coming to all those categories, and now we get around to talking about breaking up their searc…”
Gerstner: AWS Trainium Chip Cannot Compete With Nvidia's Hopper or Blackwell
“I think Tranium is not even competitive with Hopper, let alone with where Blackwell is today.”
Gurley: OpenAI's Anti-DeepSeek Paper Signals Uncompetitive Rent-Seeking Behavior
“I think your friends at open AI added to that last week by putting out an anti deep seek paper that I thought was quite sad. Like if a company like GM or Ford were to put out a paper like that about BYD, we would look at them and go, oh, you just want the gove…”
Gurley: Building bigger clusters and more LLM parameters won't yield much
“I've been concerned that the way an LLM works and the way it's optimized that building bigger clusters and more parameters won't buy you much.
Right.
Whether I've said it or not, Ilya said it, Andreessen said it, other people said the same thing, and so to m…”
Gerstner: SEO is dead on Google Search
“SEO is dead. And just, you know, those are the free links. That was the core product that used to attract everybody to Google. And the idea that SEO is basically now gone is pretty, pretty.”
Patel: Every semiconductor company except NVIDIA is terrible at software
“I would say every semiconductor company in the world sucks at software except for NVIDIA, right?”
Patel: AMD lacks software talent and refuses to fund internal GPU clusters
“AMD is really good, but they're missing software. AMD has no clue how to do software, I think. They've got very few developers on it. They won't spend the money to build a GPU cluster for themselves so that they can develop software.”
Nadella: Only four AI products qualify as true hit applications
“In fact, we talk a lot more about AI scale, but there is not that many hit apps, right? There is ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, there's Copilot, and there's Gemini. I think those are the four. I would say in a DAO, like, is there anything else that comes to your min…”
Gurley: Blocking ASML and AI tech to China is not working
“I don't think blocking ASML or blocking AI technology or blocking anything is working. It's just not working”
Gurley: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is the best candidate to head the NIH
“His name is now being floated as a potential head of the NIH, and I couldn't, I can't think of a better candidate, and I'm so hopeful that, that he ends up in that role.”
Madra: NVIDIA's CUDA moat does not exist for inference workloads
“There is no
Tie into CUDA that's required to go faster.
That's required to get the models running, right?
Obviously none of the three companies run CUDA.
And so that moat doesn't exist around inference.”
Zawalick: Decommissioning Diablo Canyon Is 'Utter Madness'
“So it would be utter madness and scientifically wrong.
and I say that from 35 years in the industry as a nuclear engineer with confidence.”
Gurley: Building next-gen nuclear requires ground-up deregulation and litigation immunity
“And if you want to go build this next generation level three plant, I think you've got to rewrite the regulation from zero ground up, like make it, Thinner and tighter. And two, I think we've gotten to the point where we got to say this is so important you can…”
Gerstner: Blocking Big Tech From Small M&A Harms the Country
“We need to get back to a place where, you know, Microsoft and Google can go buy, you know, a company that's de minimis relative to their size. You know, Amazon can buy vacuum cleaner company, you know, iRobot without, you know phalanxes of lawyers and having t…”
Gurley: LLMs Are Structurally Set Up for Diminishing Marginal Returns
“I'm probably more skeptical. I think that the way that LLM's work is actually set up for diminishing marginal returns, but we will see.”
Gerstner: The 'stay private forever' strategy fails for most unicorns
“I really don't like the stay private forever idea. It works for some companies where you have an Elon Musk running SpaceX, and you know, the intrinsic motivation and experience will lead to a good outcome. It doesn't work well for 3050, bless you, of the other…”
Gurley: Elon Musk's Pay Package Is the Most Shareholder-Aligned Ever
“The Elon package is the most shareholder aligned CEO compensation package I've ever seen. I would be thrilled if all of my hired CEOs had a very similar package.”
Gurley: Companies Need to Consider Leaving Delaware as Fast as Possible
“I think companies need to consider leaving Delaware as fast as possible.”
Gurley: OpenAI and AI leaders are spouting vague, unsubstantiated hyperbole
“I think in this case, because some of the leaders and I'd say OpenA is probably the strongest Are willing to spout hyperbole. And what I mean by hyperbole is they're willing to just state really vague, broad, big ideas without much meat on them.”
Gurley: Altman and Amodei speak in platitudes while Zuckerberg discusses technical specifics
“Dario and Sam talk in these high level platitudes about how this stuff's going to cure cancer and we're all going to, Not have to work anymore. And Zuck was down in the weeds in the meat.”
Gurley: Standalone owned AV fleets like Waymo require hundreds of billions
“Someone trying to build a completely separate fleet, I just don't think it works. Like, and I would encourage anyone that believes in it, or anyone that's a, let's call them a Waymo advocate, let's build a public Google sheet of the 20 year financial statement…”
Gurley: Sam Altman's Energy Compute Framing Is Jobsian-Level Promotion
“I want to, there's two things Sam did this in this recent Interview that I think put him in the promotion hall of fame. And one of them was he juxtapositioned AI versus the smartphone market and then on the smartphone market is being small. He said, well, that…”
Gurley: US Nuclear Deployment Costs Are Limited by Regulation, Not Technology
“The biggest problem, as I understand it, once again, from talking to experts, not from my own direct knowledge, but our cost of deploying new nuclear fission infrastructure is limited by our own regulatory framework, not by the technology.”
Gurley: Waymo and Cruise cannot compete if neural networks solve autonomy
“If let's, let's make an assertion. If this type of neural network approach is the right answer. Yes. And I want to reason you once again, you know, Occam's razor seems that way to me, then who could compete in one of the companies or two, you know, several of …”
Gerstner: OpenAI Should Rename to ChatGPT and Focus on Google
“If I was Sam Altman running OpenAI, I think I might rename the company ChatGPT and just focused on the multi-trillion dollar opportunity to replace Google, right? Because I think winning at both, beating Google at consumer and beating Microsoft at enterprise y…”
Gurley: Google Gemini acts like an autocratic model restricting information
“The Google Gemini model was much more similar to something autocratic that you might equate with a communist society, like that's intentionally limiting the information you can have and painting it in a very specific way. And so, yeah, I, I'm more afraid of th…”
Gurley: Musk's 2018 Tesla compensation package was among most shareholder-aligned ever
“It may be like one of the most, you know, shareholder aligned incentive packages ever, which is, is exactly what you would think Delaware courts would be looking after.”
Gerstner: Tesla made more FSD progress in 12 months than past 7 years
“Tesla rebuilding their models, For how they do self-driving around imitation learning and all this interesting stuff going on over there. Like, you know, I think they probably made more progress in the last 12 months than in the last seven years.”
Gurley: There is no chance of competing simultaneously with TSMC and Nvidia
“And then some of them, and I, once again, I don't know that there was an exact quote, but the idea that you're going to build a fab is And compete, you're gonna compete with TSMC and NVIDIA at the same time. Like, no chance. Like, no chance.”
Gurley: Reshoring competitive semiconductor fabs to the US will not happen
“And to think you're going to re-onshore a fab and ignore Morris Chang is just kind of crazy to me. And I look at the Requirements, once again, that we put on companies around labor and say to myself, it's not going to happen here.”