Big Tech

9 statements across 6 episodes · 3 bullish · 4 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Apr 15, 2024 by Marissa Mayer · across every show →

Everything said about Big Tech, oldest first

Apr 15, 2024 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Mayer: Startups have an AI advantage over Big Tech via model flexibility
“I personally don't necessarily think that the winner in LLMs will necessarily be The winner in visual creation. And so as a startup, the fact that you can pick whichever model or whichever offering an API you feel fits your needs best is great. Where in some c…”
Marissa Mayer Apr 15, 2024 ▶ 15:57 Why Marissa Mayer Is Betting Big On Consumer Tech
Sep 11, 2024 negative
Insight
Kantrowitz: App developers effectively serve as R&D for Big Tech platforms
“They ingest so much of the experience that the app developers are effectively R and D for the eventual big tech products.”
Alex Kantrowitz Sep 11, 2024 ▶ 26:41 iPhone16 Arrives + Apple Intelligence Delays
Oct 16, 2024
Insight
Kantrowitz: Legacy Companies Can Only Compete with Big Tech by Being More Human
“I think that these companies cannot compete with tech companies by being more tech. And maybe that limits their growth over time. The only way to possibly compete with big tech and to compete with AI is to be more human, right? It's to make people feel good. L…”
Alex Kantrowitz Oct 16, 2024 ▶ 16:00 Fear Buying AI & Automation Stocks — With Downtown Josh Brown
Oct 16, 2024 bearish
Opinion
Josh Brown: AI boom may be the first fear-based investment bubble
“We might be in the first fear-based Investment bubble ever. Normally when you have an investment bubble, it's greed. In this case, there's an element of, I better invest in this.”
Josh Brown Oct 16, 2024 ▶ 5:04 Fear Buying AI & Automation Stocks — With Downtown Josh Brown
Jan 29, 2025 negative
Opinion
Hoffman: FTC Chair Lina Khan's tech M&A crackdown concentrates Big Tech power
“You know, she misunderstands, like, kind of the role of how to stop the aggregation of power in large tech companies, because she says, well, if she stops large tech companies from buying small startups, what that means is venture capitalists, like myself, and…”
Reid Hoffman Jan 29, 2025 ▶ 41:17 Reid Hoffman: Why The AI Investment Will Pay Off
Mar 29, 2025 bullish
Prediction Held up
Kantrowitz: Big Tech will not pull back AI CapEx, spending over $300B
“The capex pullback. I don't see it happening. We have big tech that's going to spend three hundred billion on capex this year plus. Much of that is going to AI, open AI, there's rumors now that, or reports, really, that they're about to raise forty billion dol…”
Alex Kantrowitz Mar 29, 2025 ▶ 41:14 OpenAI’s Ghibli Moment, CoreWeave's IPO Letdown, End of Silicon Valley’s Monopoly?
Aug 6, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kantrowitz: Tech earnings momentum will continue as tariff threats subside
“And it looks like the tariff threat is not going to be anywhere near as bad. And remember the economy was humming coming into that. So I think that it will continue now.”
Alex Kantrowitz Aug 6, 2025 ▶ 49:36 Anthropic’s Potential, AI Video Gets Crazy, Market Bubble Approaching?
Aug 6, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Big Tech will spend $330 billion this year on capex
“Big Tech is expected to spend three hundred thirty billion this year building largely data centers.”
Alex Kantrowitz Aug 6, 2025 ▶ 51:20 Anthropic’s Potential, AI Video Gets Crazy, Market Bubble Approaching?
Aug 6, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Anthropic has raised over $11 billion from big tech
“Despite the fact that Anthropic has eleven billion plus dollars in funding from big tech that it's been able to compete in this market.”
Alex Kantrowitz Aug 6, 2025 ▶ 3:29 Anthropic’s Potential, AI Video Gets Crazy, Market Bubble Approaching?
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