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Kurian: Competitors attack Google because their own AI models are terrible
“If you don't have your own model, or you have a model of your own, but it's terrible, naturally you're going to say something like that.”
Luria: Three-year GPU depreciation would drastically cut Oracle and CoreWeave profits
“If you told Amazon and Microsoft, and certainly if you told companies like Oracle and CoreWeave, no, no, no, no. These chips will only generate meaningful revenue for three years. Their profitability would decline very dramatically. So again, from Microsoft, A…”
Amazon Will Not Display Tariff Charges on Listings or Amazon Haul
“You know, it's, this is an incredibly dynamic situation, and never and always are difficult questions, but this was considered for our ultra-low-cost store alone, Amazon Hall. It was considered. It was not approved. It's not happening. It was not considered fo…”
Brown: Retail pharmacy chains CVS and Walgreens are going away
“All you have to do is look at a chart of CVS, which is in a 60% drawdown from a tie, or look at Walgreens Boots Alliance, which is in a 90% drawdown. These companies are going away.”
Petersen: Amazon does not treat sellers as tier-one customers
“Amazon does not treat the seller on their platform as a tier one customer. Their job is to help the customer, the consumer at the end of the day.”
Petersen: Flexport Offers Better Fulfillment Proposition Than Amazon Logistics
“So if you want to say we compete with Amazon, I think we're a strictly better proposition other than the fact that we don't own amazon.com and have all the demand that that drives.”
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…”
Siegler: AI agent landscape will fragment across multiple walled-garden tools
“I worry that we're going to not get a seamless move into like a one single place where we can do all of this, like the sort of the pie in the sky version that you're talking about, where there's one tool, but instead we have to use like Three or four different…”
Roy: Alphabet and Amazon Profits Rely Heavily on Anthropic Paper Markups
“Last quarter Alphabet, parent company, Google reported 62.6 billion dollars in profit. Google is a cash machine. They always have been. 28.7 billion of that was a paper markup on Anthropic. Amazon, 30.3 billion in profit. 16.8 billion, same Anthropic paper gai…”
Microsoft may sue OpenAI over Amazon investment, Reuters reports
“So there's reporting from Reuters that Microsoft may sue OpenAI over their fifty billion dollar investment from Amazon, and because it could violate the exclusive cloud agreement that they had they had set a number of years ago that, like, all OpenAI products …”
Sorkin: AI Faces Potential Dot-Com-Style Bubble And Bust Timing Mismatch
“The bigger question is whether there's going to be like a timing mismatch, that there's going to be some period of time. Same way, by the way, we had a dot com bubble and bust where the economics didn't match the investments at that time. Now, Amazon is still …”
Amazon summons engineers to investigate outages linked to AI coding tools
“Amazon's e-commerce business has summoned a large group of engineers to a meeting on Tuesday for a deep dive into a spate of outages, including incidents tied to the use of AI coding tools. The AI, the online retail giant has said there has been a trend of inc…”
Ranjan Roy: Rushed AI coding mandates will cause more enterprise software outages
“Just letting, and almost forcing everyone to rapidly adopt versus actually making them understand how to use these tools, I think becomes so much more important, and we're definitely gonna see more instances like this.”
Kantrowitz: Amazon makes all its retail profit from advertising
“Where are they making most of their profit on the retail side? Or shall I say all their profit on the retail side? It's advertising. And that goes away. If you, even if you're able to do this well, if one click fulfillment, that's the least Profitable part of …”
Kantrowitz: OpenAI will be the fastest-growing company ever
“Opening eyes is going to be the fastest growing company ever, so you probably do want a stake of that if you're a company with the means to invest, and Amazon certainly had the money to do it.”
Siegler: Microsoft and Amazon back multiple AI labs to stop Google
“I think these other major cloud players, at least the ones who have the rival clouds, specifically Microsoft and Amazon realize that yeah, they probably need to align around basically anyone who's not Google, right? They don't necessarily care if it, I mean, t…”
Morris: Amazon Will Likely Execute Another Mass Layoff Within 12 Months
“I know the HR chief is trying to calm everyone down by saying this is not the new normal, but I would be very surprised as if this is the last mass layoff as Amazon we see in the next 12 months.”
Taylor: AI is in a bubble, but generational companies will emerge
“I think there'll be a period of consolidation. Well, that was always my joke. Your perspective on the dot-com bubble is very different if you went all in on buy.com versus amazon.com. And so you're gonna have some companies go out of business. I think more lik…”
Kantrowitz: Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, and Meta lack standout AI products
“What standout product does AI product does Microsoft have outside of selling AI services from Azure? What standout product does Amazon, AI product does Amazon have outside of selling some AI with AWS. What standout AI product does Apple have? We both know that…”
Luria: OpenAI promised $1.4 trillion across Oracle, Microsoft, Amazon, CoreWeave
“OpenAI promised me three hundred billion. They also promised Microsoft two hundred billion, Amazon thirty eight billion, CoreWeave twenty five billion. In total, 1.4 trillion dollars.”
Kantrowitz: Amazon will achieve 75% automation across fulfillment centers
“I think Amazon's going to accomplish this goal. I think they're going to get to that 75% automation, and I think that is going to be, you know, I don't know, I think it's going to be a clear problem.”
Crowdsourced data from millions of users gives Tesla a major autonomy lead
“Remember, Tesla has this advantage very much like the Echo devices at Amazon, where they're able to crowdsource training from the users. So basically, they're learning and training their model based on all the millions of people driving Teslas every day. That'…”
Amazon is spending $105B in capex for $5B AI revenue
“There's an analyst, I was quoted by Laura Brattner at Yahoo Finance, who said that he only thinks that Amazon is going to make five billion dollars in revenue, again, not profit, this year on AI. They are spending one hundred and five billion dollars in capita…”
Petersen: Ending de minimis benefits Amazon and Walmart against cross-border competitors
“For the de minimis thing in particular, I think Amazon's better off with de minimis not existing. Because de minimis is shipping direct from China to the U.S. Consumer. It skips their fulfillment network. Which is where they put all the capex and huge competit…”
Siegler: Apple cannot acquire Anthropic due to Amazon and Google stakes
“I don't think that Apple can buy anthropic just because of like the weird ownership now of Amazon and Google owning so much of that company, I think it would be very hard to see how they could possibly do that. And it would just cost, you know, a hundred billi…”
Amazon Has Seen No Material Tariff Impact on Consumer Spending Yet
“Yeah, we haven't seen anything material in the numbers as yet. There's been sort of like variations that are hard to tell from, you know, like from just normal variations you'd see in the business.”
Link: Amazon will deliver ~20% 5-year CAGR, beating Meta and Google
“And I think you're going to see a CAGR of about 20% for the next five years at this company versus Meta at 13% and versus Google at 12.8%.”
AWS's Wood predicts foundation AI models will consolidate to 12-24 major providers
“I think that there's not going to be hundreds of world model providers. I think that there's likely to be maybe a dozen, two dozen, something of that order of magnitude. I think that, you know, Anthropic will be one, Meta will be one, Amazon will be one, there…”
Gelsinger: Intel aims to manufacture chips for Nvidia, AMD, and hyperscalers
“You know, we're also going to be a foundry. We're going to be the manufacturer for many of those chips as well. So we want to be the manufacturer for Nvidia, for AMD, for Google, for Amazon. We want to be their manufacturing partner, even if we're not using ou…”
Gelsinger: Intel, AMD, and Nvidia will be AI's three big merchant providers
“There's going to be those that build their own, you know, and that's what you see Amazon, Microsoft, Google are doing. They're going to say, hey, I'm going to own this and do this myself. And then there's going to be the general providers in the marketplace, a…”
Kantrowitz predicts Amazon will temporarily lead the AI arms race
“My perspective here is that Amazon will now become the everything store for AI models, and that is going to put it in the lead of the arms race. Does that mean it's going to win the AI arms race? I don't think so. We don't know yet, but is there going to be a …”
Coulter: Amazon's confusing UX was caused by under-resourcing, not malice
“Amazon, in my experience, is also vastly under-resourced when it came to designers and UX writers, and I found confusing navigation and confusing language all over the website during my tenure. That mostly happened because they had, you know, like coders or pr…”
Coulter: Multimillionaire Amazon executives work through the night out of fear
“I can tell you that Amazon, these people who are worth tens or scores of millions of dollars are working insanely hard. You know, they're emailing at four in the morning and they're working all night. These people are crazily driven. And the ones I got close e…”
Coulter: Flexport's executive purge was about eradicating the 'Amazon vibe'
“It felt like, oh, it's not just Dave that they're getting rid of because Ryan Peterson wants to come back.
They're trying to get rid of a whole vibe.
My thought was like, they just want this Amazon vibe out of there.”
Coulter: Andy Jassy lacks Bezos's manic inventive spark
“I think he's super smart. I actually think he has more emotional intelligence than, well, than Jeff did, or at least that he's willing to show, you know, more empathy. But I don't see that spark of almost manic Inventiveness in him. You know, he always struck …”
Wood admits Amazon employees already use AI to write six-page memos
“That ship has sailed, I can tell you.”
Wood: Amazon's AI goal is pragmatic utility, not Artificial General Intelligence
“Others are talking about, well, our stated goal is that we want an artificially generally intelligent system. That is not our stated goal. Our stated goal is that we want to just be very pragmatic, meet customers where they're at today, and then provide capabi…”
Siegler: OpenAI and Anthropic will eventually build their own clouds
“Even if down the road, like those two actually do make it out and you know, break out on their own and become two of the new you know, tech behemoths that are public companies, they will eventually obviously just have their own clouds. They're not going to be,…”
SpaceX Generates $18.7 Billion in Revenue but Loses $4 Billion
“And remember, this is a company with an 18.7 billion dollars of revenue total. I mean, Amazon, it surpassed its market cap. Amazon has seven hundred fifty billion dollars in revenue. Like this is a company that's losing four billion dollars.”
Kantrowitz: Alexa Plus is the best assistant among major tech competitors
“I think Alexa plus is the best of the bunch.”
Siegler: Amazon and Google Guide Toward $190 Billion in Annual CapEx
“Amazon and Google are, I think are both guiding towards a hundred and ninety billion now.
and that's, this gets updated every single quarter.
So they very well could spend well over two hundred billion for what ends up being the year, and Microsoft will be ri…”
Kantrowitz: Amazon Nova Foundation Model Has Gained Zero Traction
“Amazon Nova has gone nowhere. Most people don't even realize that Amazon has a foundational model.”
Kantrowitz: Gemini and Claude were trained on TPUs and Trainium, not NVIDIA
“If you look at the TPU, which is the accelerator that Google has been, has put out and Tranium, which is Amazon's version of it you know, two of the top three models in the world, Claude and Gemini were trained on it”
Siegler: Amazon is investing $50B in OpenAI across two tranches
“Fifty billion dollars. Yes. It's over like two tranches. It sounds like, you know, 15 and then 35, but still fifty billion dollars that, that Amazon is investing”
Pentagon cannot easily replace Anthropic due to Palantir and Amazon integrations
“The fact that Palantir and then Amazon obviously, and a bunch of others have used Anthropic services, like maybe the government just wasn't savvy enough to know just how integrated Anthropic itself was and that they can't just, again, like we were talking abou…”
Kantrowitz: Amazon experienced outages after an AI agent deleted its files
“There was just the story in the FT that Amazon had lots of had outages because The agent was like, you know what I'm going to do to fix this problem? Just erase everything.”
Kantrowitz: AWS grew 24% while Amazon guided to $200B CapEx
“AWS went up 24% in the fourth quarter, which is kind of astounding. But they said they were gonna spend two hundred billion dollars in CapEx. A 60% increase from last year and far above Wall Street expectations, obviously.”
Roy: Agentic commerce threatens Amazon's core growth narrative
“Their advertising business has grown tremendously, but like, they're especially, I think, like, agentic commerce presents a threat, whatever it's gonna look like. Maybe they'll, Rufus, actually, I've been using a lot more, I do find pretty good, but like, I th…”