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Morris: Microsoft disclosed 45% of future Azure contracts are tied to OpenAI
“They revealed that they booked ten billion cash gain from the amount of cash OpenAI has on this balance sheet due to all these, like, huge fundraisings that they're doing. But they also said that 45% of their future Azure contracts were based on OpenAI.”
Morris: SpaceX is targeting a $50B raise at a $1.5T valuation
“Yeah, I mean, we're hearing 50, potentially raising fifty billion at a 1.5 trillion valuation.”
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.”
Morris: SpaceX told investors it wants an IPO to build space data centers
“The most logical reason is that SpaceX, one of the reasons that have been given privately to investors for wanting to IPO SpaceX is that it needs to raise money so that it can develop and build data centers in space.”
Morris: Microsoft Insiders Doubt OpenAI Still Holds a Definitive Model Lead
“You talk to people now and including, you know, it's most vital stakeholder Microsoft. They're locked in these negotiations about open AI transforming itself to a for-profit entity. And these are very tense. But, you know, when you speak to people over there, …”
Morris: OpenAI will not declare GPT-5 as AGI
“I hate to make bold predictions, especially in tech, because you can often be spectacularly wrong, but I do not think they're going to say GPT-V is anything approaching AGI, however you choose to define it.”
Morris: OpenAI redefined Stargate to include any rented data center
“Part of the reason they're able to claim Stargate is off the ground is because they changed the definition of it. Previously, it had to involve open AI, Oracle, the data center provider, SoftBank, the financier and MGX, which is a huge New sovereign wealth or …”
Morris: US and Rest of World Lack Power for AI Data Centers, Except China
“There is just quite simply not enough power that exists in the United States or around the world or anywhere really apart from China to drive these data center ambitions. It just doesn't exist.”
Morris: Suleyman's Healthcare AI Diagnosed Rare Ailments 4x Better Than Doctors
“And what they were able to do is take the most complicated sort of doc Like house level, you know, the TV show house level, weird medical ailments that affect one person every six years. And they were able to diagnose them, you know, at a rate like four times …”
Morris: AI Overviews and Mode Are Increasing Google Search Engagement
“The way that they've integrated AI into search, whether it's the overviews, the bullet points at the top of your results, or the AI mode, which you can click on, and then it just behaves like GPT, Gemini, or Claude. It's actually Boosting engagement. People ar…”
Morris: Google Will Lose Exclusive Safari Search Deal from Antitrust Remedies
“They're going to have to share more data with rivals. They're going to lose the right to be Apple's exclusive search engine provider on Safari across its devices.”
Morris: Tesla Board Is Preparing a New Pay Package for Musk
“We reported that far from looking for a new CEO the board is actually looking at giving him a new pay package.”
Morris: Top AI talent is receiving $100M to $300M compensation packages
“You know, these people, as you well know, do not come cheap, right? You know, at the top end, they're getting one, 203 hundred million. At the bottom end, they're still incredibly well compensated and it has to come from somewhere.”
Morris: Anthropic's $20B funding round saw 5x to 6x investor demand
“They initially went out to raise ten billion. They're actually going to raise around 20, and they had demand for five to six times that amount which is a crazy amount of money, right?”
Morris: SoftBank in Talks to Invest $30 Billion in OpenAI
“Nvidia are putting more money in, but also SoftBank, the big Japanese conglomerate. They're talking about writing another thirty billion dollar check to finance this.”
Morris: Private Mega-Checks for AI Labs Will End by 2027
“But in 20, 27, I can't see the checks of these sizes being written again, unless you go to the public markets and you start giving retail Share your retail shareholders and big institutional pension funds, things like that access to try and finance their colos…”
Morris: Microsoft on track for $140B CapEx this fiscal year
“Microsoft is on track to spend a hundred and forty billion this fiscal year, which their fiscal year is a bit weird. It runs from to June instead of to December. And that's pretty much with on track with what they spent in the last quarter of last year, which …”
Morris: Meta to double annual CapEx to $135 billion
“Meta double is going to double this year. It's capex. So like spending on data centers and chips and servers and everything that goes into supporting that upgrading power structure, it's going to double it to one hundred and thirty five billion, you know, from…”
Morris: Google and Blue Origin are also exploring data centers in space
“Google's also looking at it. Jeff Bezos is looking at doing it through, you know, through his blue blue origin rocket company.”
Morris: Anthropic Wins Larger Enterprise API Contracts Than OpenAI
“Whereas Anthropica's claw doesn't just doesn't have the same brand recognition, but it has relentlessly gone after what they call enterprise customers, like big businesses, offers them access to their technology through APIs and has longer, bigger, and more vi…”
Morris: China Will Power Future AI Data Centers Primarily With Solar
“This for, to a large part, is how China is going to power the future of data centers and AI with solar energy.”
Morris: Europe Risks Having No Meaningful AI Industry Due to Delays
“The concern in the other direction is that Europe will just fall so far behind these other countries. It won't have an AI industry that's meaningful in any sense. Which may already be the case.”
Morris: OpenAI front-ran Google's Math Olympiad announcement by three days
“And then you have open AI, like using the same system, not officially entering, not subjecting itself to the same type of controls and scrutiny and front running Google's announcement by three days.”