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Roy: Tesla and SpaceX will inevitably have to merge
“Giving that little nugget to the world, starting to seed that idea, and I think it's almost, it has to happen, because these two companies, again, Tesla has a car business, SpaceX kind of has a space business, still has an internet satellite business, but they…”
AI compute demand growth will be linear rather than exponential
“I don't think it's necessarily exponential in the way everyone is looking at it right now. And the way these deals are being done, and the way people are chasing it, and again, when it benefits both parties involved, I do think that It can be more of a linear …”
Ranjan Roy: OpenAI Will Crack LLM Advertising Ahead of Google
“I think OpenAI figures out LLM-based advertising ahead of Google.”
Roy: OpenAI will certainly need a federal backstop for its spending commitments
“They almost will certainly need this government backstop to actually make this work.”
Ranjan Roy compares the OpenAI-Oracle deal to the dot-com fiber buildout
“I think for the market to have reacted that positively, it just, I don't know, it feels like in, you know, the internet bubble, there was so much that happened around fiber build fiber capacity build out that seems to start to echo this, that it this I don't k…”
Roy: A single dominant AI model will not eliminate 20-50% of jobs
“I believe that the one model to rule them all, one giant model is going to wipe out 20% or 50% of white collar jobs. Like, I just don't see that happening.”
Roy: One-Third of OpenAI's Projected $28B Revenue Comes from SoftBank
“They're expecting next year, 12 and a half billion. That's gonna then go to twenty eight billion dollars, and a third of that revenue is going to come from SoftBank. SoftBank spending on OpenAI for all of its own companies and portfolio companies.”
Roy: Antitrust pressure will stall Apple's lucrative services revenue growth
“Tim Cook and Apple are quietly one of the most aggressive monopolists in terms of how they build the ecosystem and juice that services revenue and that kind of growth, I think will stall out. I think we're going to start to see some kind of pressure on bundlin…”
Roy: Russia Is Almost Certainly Funding Far-Left US Influencers Too
“Well, no, but I am positive that there's also very left wing influencers who are also receiving whether directly or indirectly money from Russia.”
Roy: Meta capex figures exclude $46B in Hyperion SPV debt exposure
“Meta recorded 88.6 billion in capital expenditures, but that doesn't include the Hyperion SPV, which had its own forty six billion dollars of exposure.”
Roy: SpaceX floated under 5% of shares in its IPO
“Remember, they brilliantly went out to the market saying it is worth this ungodly valuation and kind of anchoring things there, only releasing less than five percent of actual available shares to the market to actually create that kind of artificial restricted…”
Roy: Kimi K3 launch will destroy the frontier model moat narrative
“I think this is actually going to be a moment where even more so the idea that Frontier models are a massive moat really goes away.”
Roy: AI Lab IPO Narratives Will Suffer as Cheaper Models Suffice
“And I do firmly believe overall utilization of models and agentic AI is going to be just, you know, like exponential, but the core IPO story, I think, takes a huge hit from this. So I think, like, the advantage of having something far superior for a short amou…”
Ranjan Roy: DeepSeek and Chinese models are now in almost every agent conversation
“The conversation around moving towards deep seek and adding it into your agentic process or adding Chinese models did not exist in any conversation I was in 12 months ago and now is in almost every conversation, at least as an option, because cost has become s…”
Roy: Google Gemini will monetize via ads, but Anthropic will avoid them
“At least anthropic is not, I mean, I don't think they're going in that direction at all. Google and Gemini, Obviously, 100% will”
Roy: Anthropic and OpenAI now explicitly retain enterprise data for 30 days
“Enterprise agreements, the anthropic and open AI, as well as everyone else, like claim no data retention. Now they're just explicitly saying that they're going to for 30 days and like, that's a huge deal.”
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…”
Roy: Claude will never repeat its previous six-month revenue growth
“The graph of revenue growth for Claude for the last six months, we will never see again. It was just something where no one was checking anything.”
House committees probe Airbnb and Anysphere for using Chinese AI models
“Two Republican-led House committees, they're probing specifically Airbnb and AnySphere, which is the owner of Cursor, over their use of Chinese models.”
Kalshi suspended three congressional candidates for trading on their own campaigns
“It was a few weeks ago, Calci said it suspended one U.S. Senate candidate and two candidates for the House of Representatives for political insider trading.”
Army Master Sergeant charged for betting on mission using classified intel
“There was this crazy story where a U.S. Army Special Forces Master Sergeant actually was charged with using classified information around the Maduro capture that he was part of that mission to bet on”
Roy: Third-party contractors breached Anthropic's Mythos model via target URL
“This week, Bloomberg reported there was a breach for Mythos, where an unauthorized group, they tried a number of different strategies and were able to gain access to the model. They work for a third-party contractor that works for Anthropic. And the way they d…”
Roy: Expect more leaks questioning OpenAI's leadership ahead of an IPO
“I think you're going to be seeing more of these kind of leaks at some point, because there has to be investors that there's a lot of money in it. There's a lot of kind of lack of clear strategy still, even after they're supposed to kind of bring focus to the c…”
Roy: OpenAI and Anthropic are in a death race to IPO first
“Right now, open AI and Anthropic are in like a death race to who can get out first in terms of their IPO.”
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 …”
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.”
Roy: Autonomous weapons will become standardized warfare without a global ban
“Fully autonomous weapons, I don't, if that's the direction that warfare is going, I feel like that's just gonna be part of whatever China or other countries are developing anyway, so it's just gonna be kind of as awful as it may sound, it's going to kind of be…”
Roy: Autonomous agents will eliminate the need for project management software
“A lot of that work, a lot of those tasks that were being created, agents are going to do. At which point you don't need, you never needed some, you don't need someone to actually enter tasks manually. And so another person could look at it and click check. Thi…”
Roy predicts agentic AI will achieve a mainstream breakthrough in 2026.
“And that's why I honestly think this year, this is going to break through in a big way. The way coding assistance were the story of 20, 25.”
Roy: AI will see major breakthroughs alongside a 2026 financial washout
“Twenty-twenty-six is gonna be both the best and worst year for AI. What I mean by that is, I think we're gonna see much more widespread adoption, major breakthroughs, but also I think the kind of like financial Arrangements that have been built and kind of tha…”
Roy: OpenAI will hit 1B users in 2026 but lose clear leadership
“I think a billion users. I don't think I think they're not the leader. I think Gemini's Google definitely starts to catch up. I think like everyone is biting off at different parts of the open AI. Empire, I guess if we call it that, but I don't think there's a…”
Roy: Meta is becoming Apple's biggest hardware competitor
“Meta is now going to be Apple's biggest competitor in the hardware space. And I never thought that that could be the possible or the case, but I really think that will be the case”
Roy: Nvidia's accounts receivable are rising while cash conversion decreases
“One of the things I kept seeing popping up was if you dig one level lower accounts receivable for Nvidia are actually significantly higher than the typical past quarters. Free cash flow is decreasing or cash conversion of their actual sales. Like all these kin…”
Roy: Industrial AI will experience a massive breakout boom within 3-5 years
“Three to five years from now, if you're in that industry, it's gonna have a moment in a way that's equivalent to what we've seen so far.”
Roy: OpenAI will generate $13B revenue and lose $20B in 2025
“Their revenue is going to be thirteen billion this year, and I think it's twenty billion they're losing this year.”
Roy: 150 Google Cloud AI customers generate only $150M in token revenue
“Sundar basically like proudly saying, a 150 Google cloud customers processed one trillion tokens and then had some kind of standard case study metrics about email open rates and stuff like creating campaign efficiency. But when you actually map out the numbers…”
Roy: AI Models Are 50% More Sycophantic Than Humans, Study Finds
“He cites this new research that showed across 11 state-of-the-art AI models, we find that models are highly sycophantic, They affirm users actions, 50% more than humans do, and they do so even in cases where user queries mention manipulation, deception, or oth…”
Roy: AI Infrastructure Will Top Out at 20-30% Margins, Not 70%
“In reality, like, there's no reason that the margin profile should change over time. Like, maybe it starts to improve, but it's incremental. Maybe you get to 20, 25%. Maybe you squeeze out 30%. But in reality, like, this is a different business than the sleepy…”
Roy: AI should completely eliminate real estate brokers from the economy
“AI certainly helping you quickly evaluate should you buy something, trying to like streamline the document process between counterparties and buying real estate. Like that should completely remove real estate brokers from the economy.”
Roy: Proposed $14B TikTok US buyout will not go through
“I don't think it's going to happen. Fourteen billion versus forty billion. And we don't actually have confirmation from Xi Jinping or from any one on the Chinese side.”
Google Dropped Restrictions on Manipulating Uploaded Photos of People
“Google a year ago, or maybe a year and a half ago, did not actually let you manipulate images of people that you upload for safety purposes. And now that's out the window. You can do whatever you want.”
Fully Probabilistic AI Agent Workflows Will Never Be Economical
“If you approach long workflows completely probabilistically every single time, even if it's stuff you're repeating over and over, if you think about like customer care, agentic AI, it'll never be economical. It'll, it'll only get more and more expensive.”
Roy: Google is indexing and searching shared ChatGPT conversations
“Apparently Google is now indexing shared to chat GPT conversations and they're searchable”
Roy: OpenAI-Microsoft tensions will explode this year
“I think this, the more I'm thinking about this is going to explode in some direction this year.”
Roy: Tool calling will be the next decisive battleground in AI
“The next great battle in AI is tool calling. That's where we're going to see the maximum amount, like actually bringing these models and agent and agentic AI. That's all that matters is the ability for an action to understand its concept context and then take …”
Roy: Meta AI Discover tab publishes full user chats and voice recordings
“If you go to the Discover tab, it posts entireties of chats from people that probably don't realize that it's being posted, and it's like, as a social network, even crazier, it posts people's voices prompting Meta AI, so it has like an audio clip, audio messag…”
Roy: Manual data labeling by Scale AI will no longer be relevant
“What they did, their job, again, like actually having people manually tag, like large networks of people manually tagging data to make it more ingestible for a large language model or for a training, It's not going to be as relevant anymore. You can even now h…”
Roy: Cook backed CFO over Schiller on 27% App Store fee
“So in 2023, after the initial decision, Phil Schiller had actually said that maybe we move to a model where Apple takes no commission, but apparently Apple's finance chief had come up with the idea around 27%. Tim Cook sided with the finance chief, Luca Maestr…”