Opinion
Cahn: Meta's failure to compete shows OpenAI's talent strength
“If anything, Zuck's attempt to compete with OpenAI, and just the failure of that so far, just demonstrates how good the talent still at OpenAI is.”
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Cahn: AI infrastructure needs $3T in payback since ChatGPT launch
“You basically have about three trillion dollars that needs to get paid back just since chat GBT.”
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Cahn: Humans will do only 1% of cognitive work in 50 years
“Today humans do 99% of cognitive work in
50 years, humans are going to do maybe one percent of cognitive work, right?”
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Cahn: Anthropic is the fastest-growing company in history
“What has happened with Anthropic in the last year is nothing short of mind blowing to anyone who studied companies, right? It's the fastest growing company in history.”
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Cahn: OpenAI and Anthropic generate over $100B in combined revenue
“Today it's a hundred billion plus across OpenAI and Anthropic. Now there's still two companies driving the vast, vast, vast majority of the revenue in AI.”
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Cahn: The only way to repay massive AI CapEx is achieving AGI
“If you kind of think about those dollars of CapEx, the only possible way to pay those dollars back is going to be AGI.”
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Cahn: Spending $200B a year on AI CapEx without new business lines is unsustainable
“The current status quo of we're spending two hundred billion dollars a year on CapEx. And, you know, yes, we're renting our GPUs, so revenue is accelerating, but fundamentally there's no There's not a new business line coming out of it. That is not sustainable…”
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Cahn claims Andrej Karpathy just joined Anthropic
“Andre Karpathy just joined.”
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Cahn: Vertical integration has failed to produce superior AI models
“The reality is, when you look at the ecosystem today versus two years ago, the vertically integrated companies have not been able to leverage that vertical integration into some model advantage.”
Opinion
Cahn: Meta and Google pursue AI because ad models face existential disruption
“Part of why I think Meta and Google are so all in AI is their businesses are the most at risk from AI. Like if we all move to ChatGPT, if we all move, if our time eyeballs move to these other interfaces, Then these ad driven businesses have a lot of questions.”
Opinion
Cahn: Amazon faces a 'heads I lose, tails I lose' dilemma in AI
“In some ways I worry for Amazon, which is like, Heads I lose, tails I lose. It's like, if this all goes well and AGI happens, they're not well positioned for that. And then if it doesn't happen, they're kind of in the bath with everybody else on the capex that…”
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Cahn: Apple could emerge as a genius if AI models commoditize
“Apple is the one, by the way, with the do nothing strategy. Like you gotta look at Apple and say, wow, like there's some chance that Apple just comes out looking like a genius on this. Like if it does commoditize, Apple's not spending money on CapEx.”
Opinion
Cahn: Big Tech leaders believe AI race is for ultimate civilizational control
“I think that the eight players around this four D chess board Think they are playing for the highest stakes in the universe. They are playing to be the emperor of the universe, and whatever that means. The person who controls AGI, whatever that means.”
Opinion
Cahn: Anthropic's core strategy is cornering top AI talent
“I think the strategy is corner the world's talent in AI and win period.”
Opinion
Cahn: Top talent no longer views Big Tech as leading edge
“The organic talent flows simply are not there for the big tech companies in a way that 10 years ago, really good people did go to work at these companies. And today they are not perceived as leading edge companies.”
Insight
Cahn: Microsoft wins whether frontier AI models succeed or commoditize
“Microsoft's distribution machine is amazing. So it, Microsoft benefits, if OpenAI and the labs win, and it's all frontier models, and it's not commoditized, he owns a lot of that. He's going to do great. If they get to AGI, great. Like owning 20% of AGI is pre…”
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Cahn: Silicon Valley is completely devoid of God
“Like, the valley is this place that is so devoid of God.”
Insight
Cahn: AI competition is fundamentally a resource allocation game for Big Tech
“Starcraft is a resource allocation game and AI is a resource allocation game. And so I think as we get into it, what are your resources and how do you allocate those resources? That's the most important question facing every big tech company.”
Opinion
Cahn: OpenAI's strategy is to be the most aggressive risk-taker
“I think open AI strategy is everybody underestimates AGI all in AGI and we're going to be the most aggressive and everybody else is going to take fewer risks than we do.”
Opinion
Cahn: Google's biggest AI advantages are search cash and TPUs
“Google has two big advantages, right? It has a cache machine from search that can fund a lot of things. And then number two, it has TPU. And I cannot overstate what an advantage it is to have TPU. They've been building this chip for a long time. It's a really …”
Opinion
Cahn: Hock Tan is one of the greatest CEOs in business history
“Hocktan is one of the all-time great CEOs in business history. Broadcom's is a premier brand. It's the number one design firm in semiconductors.”
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Cahn: Nvidia has avoided aggressive price hikes despite high market leverage
“Nvidia stocks barely moved this year, even though these high-flying beta companies are going crazy because they're raising price. Jensen isn't being insane on price. He probably could have been. He hasn't been crazy on price.”
