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Kantrowitz: OpenAI and Anthropic head toward trillion-dollar IPOs within next year
“We have open AI and Anthropic. Now they're going to do fifty billion dollars in revenue this year. They're both headed towards trillion dollar IPOs within the next year.”
Kantrowitz: Frontier AI Labs May Be Forced to Shut Off APIs
“I don't have any information to suggest that they're going to shut off their APIs. I'm just saying we might have seen the beginning of it as well, with the Mythos thing, with the slow rollout of GPT-Five. Six. Just wait, because they may have no choice but to …”
Kantrowitz: Tech's $700B AI CapEx Threatens To Hollow Out Software Industry
“If that seven hundred billion in capex that the tech giants are spending this year on AI pays off, you're going to have this entire Hollowing out of the software industry of many, maybe other industries”
Kantrowitz: Meta will partner with Google or OpenAI on smart glasses
“Over the next year, you will see Meta bring in other AI models. You will see them partner with Google. You might see them partner with OpenAI.”
Kantrowitz: Humans will violently attack and destroy humanoid robots
“Well, I think we will definitely have a war among people and humanoid robots. It's without a doubt. Even if the humanoid robots don't assemble into the army, people will knock these things out and they're already burning Waymos. People don't like robots. They …”
Kantrowitz: Grammarly will go extinct as LLMs replace grammar tools
“And here's my hot take on Grammarly. I think they're going to go extinct. I think I wouldn't call them a rapper because they were around before large language models, but all this logic that they painstakingly built into their program and all the AI developmen…”
Kantrowitz: Regulators will likely break up Google and potentially Meta
“The vibe here is that we're going to see breakups very likely of Google and potentially of Facebook.”
Kantrowitz predicts OpenAI will lose its AI market leadership position
“My first prediction is that OpenAI, which is the leader in the field today, is going to lose the throne. That's right. OpenAI will lose the throne. It will still factor in, but it's not going to be the leader in the field that it is today.”
Kantrowitz: Broad AI chatbots will not achieve long-term success without AGI
“It's just not a model for a product. That has long-term success if we don't reach general, ah, generative, ah, sorry, general artificial intelligence.”
Kantrowitz: Human-level AI will not cause mass unemployment
“Even if we get AI at human level capabilities, we're not going to see mass unemployment.”
Kantrowitz: If AI fails, massive spending will trigger a financial crisis
“And I, I'm, I've really struggled, like the idea of this soft landing, I struggled to see it. Like if AI doesn't work, there's been so much money tied up into this system that there's going to be some form of crisis.”
Kantrowitz: Selling Raw AI Intelligence Alone Won't Build Trillion-Dollar Companies
“I think that if there was a belief that you could build a trillion dollar company just by selling intelligence from the API alone not gonna happen most likely.
but what could happen is you, if you're the developer of the intelligence, you can build products w…”
Kantrowitz: AI frontier intelligence will commoditize into a price war
“If you have five companies that have this level of intelligence, it's a price war. It commoditizes. So I think we should assume, and we've talked about this on the show, that intelligence is gonna commoditize.”
Kantrowitz: OpenAI alienating tech allies will eventually cause severe consequences
“OpenAI's loss of these friends over time is going to add up to something really bad. Who knows what that exactly is, but there's gonna come a time where OpenAI's gonna need Satya, or it will need John Ternus, or it will need Elon. And they won't be there for t…”
Kantrowitz: Gating US Frontier AI Will Drive Enterprise Shift to Open Source
“If companies or countries cannot rely on the, or their ability to access frontier AI from US foundational model companies, they will rush toward open source. They will rush towards other solutions. They may, you know, not, they may be slower to go to these mor…”
Kantrowitz: Tech Capex Will Hit $700 Billion This Year
“And we're going to see seven hundred billion dollars in capital expenditures this year”
Kantrowitz: AI platforms will inevitably use personal interaction data for targeted ads
“So will AIs build an amazing sort of profile of you based off of all the personal data and then use that for ads? Most certainly.”
SpaceX lacks earnings to justify its $2.2 trillion valuation for years
“It's a 2.2 trillion dollar company. It's not going to have earnings that justify that at all for years.”
Kantrowitz: OpenAI and Anthropic are gearing up to file for IPOs
“OpenAI and Anthropic as both gear up towards filing for IPOs. Maybe even this year we could potentially even see the paperwork for OpenAI come through as you and I record today, Ranjan.”
Kantrowitz: AI communication failures will cause political moratoriums and data center blocks
“Like, you're not, the botching of the storytelling on this front, and you know, we talk a lot about comms, so fine, get the criticism, but like, this is gonna have real implications. You're gonna have candidates talking about kill switches, moratoriums, you're…”
Kantrowitz: Altman believes AI-native products will beat Google's bolt-on approach
“Basically there's a difference between products that are AI native and products that you bolt AI onto. And I believe that AI native products will win. And therefore Google bolting AI onto its existing products will lose.”
Kantrowitz: Google Cloud Will Sell OpenAI Models Within Months
“I think Google Cloud is going to start selling open AI models within the next couple of months based off of, you know, just kind of a hunch, right? So they're going to be the infrastructure layer that enables all three big models.”
SpaceX will hold its initial public offering before OpenAI and Anthropic
“SpaceX will be the one that IPO is first out of this. I think we could both agree there.”
Anthropic will likely raise $50 billion at a $900 billion valuation
“I will note Anthropic is likely gonna raise at least one more round. It looks like they're gonna raise fifty billion dollars at a nine hundred billion free money valuation.”
Kantrowitz: Anthropic and OpenAI will both have trillion-dollar IPOs
“We're looking at, they're both, Anthropik and OpenAI are both gonna have trillion dollar IPOs, and we'll have many large companies, I think, that will follow them in the generative AI world.”
Kantrowitz: Apple Will Make Big Acquisitions in John Ternus's First Year
“I think Apple's gonna make some big acquisitions in Ternus' first year for him to set the tone that it's gonna be different, and I think that's good.”
Kantrowitz: Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery will inevitably merge
“Well, first of all, it's just going to get worse for two reasons. One is we're starting to see consolidation in the space. Like you have Netflix as this clear winter and then and then Paramount and Warner Brothers Discovery are going to tie up.”
Kantrowitz: AI labs will eventually have to choose between apps and APIs
“I think you will eventually have to make a bet on what your business is. It's very tough to sustain both for a while, and who do you want to have the best models in that case?”
Anthropic will likely IPO at a $1 trillion valuation
“Anthropic is probably going to go public at a trillion.”
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.”
Kantrowitz: The Pentagon's supply chain ban on Anthropic will never take effect
“I will give my hot take here, which is that This supply chain risk threat is never never manifests. Just never takes that takes effect.”
The Pentagon might invoke the Defense Production Act against Anthropic
“They might also invoke the Defense Production Act, which would require Anthropic to supply its technology to the Pentagon the way the Pentagon wants, which would be unprecedented.”
Kantrowitz: Perplexity AI Is Done Against Google Gemini and ChatGPT
“I think it's done. I mean, I don't see how it really serves a purpose outside of you know, Different than what you could do with Gemini or Chachi.”
Kantrowitz: OpenAI's GPT-6 might launch in Q2 2026
“I did hear that GPT-Six might be coming in the second quarter this year, so maybe as soon as, you know, this spring, which would be interesting.”
Kantrowitz: OpenAI Will Go Public as a Trillion-Dollar Company
“And he did, you know, he did take a nonprofit and turn it into, you know, it's going to be a trillion dollar IPO company.”
Kantrowitz: AI will be more disruptive than expected, threatening Big Tech
“If AI works, it's going to be more disruptive than I think. A lot of people imagine, because if it's going to pose this threat to the incumbent tech companies who've, by the way, they're the one putting all these, this capex into the equation, then what does i…”
Kantrowitz: Tim Cook will likely step down as Apple CEO in 2026
“This is the last year, I think, for Tim Cook. Just, you know, not based off of any, anything more than reading the reports, but I think he's done.”
Kantrowitz predicts growing prediction markets will increasingly drive real-world outcomes.
“The principles can drive the outcomes. And if you're doing, and as these prediction markets rise, you're going to see that happen.”
Kantrowitz: Increasing AI model efficiency could cause a crisis for compute
“And I'm curious what you think about this is this is the one I'm probably least sure about. But it is increasing AI model efficiency causes a crisis.”
Kantrowitz: Meta's Open Source AI Strategy Is Definitely Done
“I think they're not going to, their open source strategy is definitely done.”
Kantrowitz: Tim Cook will announce departure on Apple Q1 earnings call
“Tim Cook announces on first quarter conference call that he's leaving the company at the end of the year.”
Kantrowitz: Anthropic Will File S-1 or Set IPO Timeline in 2026
“My prediction is, while opening a dozen IPO, Anthropic at least sets a timeline. If not, you know, files in S-One next year.”
Kantrowitz: Apple targets smart glasses launch by end of 2026
“Apple is going to release its smart glasses targeted at the end of next year.”
Kantrowitz: Netflix acquiring Warner Bros. will harm streaming consumers over time
“This might just create like one internet cable company. And, you know, over time, it's gonna harm the people that are using these services. So I'm against it.”
Kantrowitz: Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO in early 2026
“But between that departure and this mega byline story in the FT I could see Tim Cook realistically leaving in Q one in 20, 26. I think that's a real thing.”
Kantrowitz: AI price wars will destroy OpenAI's profit-sharing business models
“Somebody else is just gonna develop super intelligence as well, and they're gonna get into a price war.
So how long can you say, I want a party of the profit of this drug that you're gonna develop with our technology?
Where like somebody else can be like, well…”