SemiAnalysis

10 statements across 3 episodes · 6 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Sep 30, 2025 by Dylan Patel · said 3 times in 2 episodes since 2026 · across every show →

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Sep 30, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Patel: SemiAnalysis's 2nd highest revenue product is impossible without AI
“My business model, like, this is the second highest revenue product for us, would not have been possible if it weren't for AI, like, vibe coding, like, you know, being able to dig through permits and regulatory filings, being able to run image recognition on s…”
Dylan Patel Sep 30, 2025 ▶ 1:20:00 Inside the Trillion-Dollar AI Buildout | Dylan Patel Interview · Invest Like The Best
Apr 23, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Analyst mapped entire US power grid using $6,000 daily AI tokens
“He was spending like 6000 dollars a day. It was an insane amount, but he scraped every single power plant in the U S every single transmission line above a certain voltage. And created this entire mapping of the entire US grid, as well as a lot of demand sourc…”
Dylan Patel Apr 23, 2026 ▶ 6:44 The Supply and Demand of AI Tokens | Dylan Patel Interview · Invest Like The Best
Apr 23, 2026 bullish
Assertion Supported
Patel: Next-Generation AI Racks Require 120 FPGAs per Rack
“There's a project we did on FPGAs, and it turns out there's a 120 FPGAs per, per next generation rack.”
Dylan Patel Apr 23, 2026 ▶ 37:22 The Supply and Demand of AI Tokens | Dylan Patel Interview · Invest Like The Best
Apr 23, 2026 bullish
What-if
Patel: Solo economist's AI project would have taken 200 economists a year
“And he's like, dude, this would have taken the team of 200 economists a year.”
Dylan Patel Apr 23, 2026 ▶ 4:49 The Supply and Demand of AI Tokens | Dylan Patel Interview · Invest Like The Best
Apr 23, 2026 bullish
Disclosure
Patel: SemiAnalysis built SEM chip material mapping app using Claude tokens
“One person on the team, they've been able to spend with a couple thousand dollars of Claude tokens, they've been able to create this application that is GPU accelerated, runs on a server that we have at CoreWeave, and anytime we send it an image, it's able to …”
Dylan Patel Apr 23, 2026 ▶ 2:52 The Supply and Demand of AI Tokens | Dylan Patel Interview · Invest Like The Best
Apr 23, 2026 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Patel: SemiAnalysis AI spend could exceed total payroll by year-end
“And if this trajectory continues, then, you know, we'll spend more than a hundred percent by the end of the year”
Dylan Patel Apr 23, 2026 ▶ 2:01 The Supply and Demand of AI Tokens | Dylan Patel Interview · Invest Like The Best
Apr 23, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Patel: AI can currently automate roughly 3% of BLS tasks
“The BLS has this entire Bureau of Labor Statistics has this entire, like, set of, like, 2000 tasks, And so he did that with AI, which ones can be done by AI, which ones cannot and grading them across a rubric, you know, about three percent are doable now with …”
Dylan Patel Apr 23, 2026 ▶ 4:06 The Supply and Demand of AI Tokens | Dylan Patel Interview · Invest Like The Best
Apr 23, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Patel: Anthropic could double Opus pricing and users would still pay
“They could double their pricing on Opus, and I would continue to pay, and I bet most users would continue to pay. I bet that wouldn't solve their humongous capacity problem that they have.”
Dylan Patel Apr 23, 2026 ▶ 20:30 The Supply and Demand of AI Tokens | Dylan Patel Interview · Invest Like The Best
Apr 23, 2026 neutral
Disclosure
Patel: SemiAnalysis spends $7M on Claude Code vs $25M payroll
“Across a firm, we're spending seven million dollars a year now on Claude code at the current rate versus our salary expense being in the neighborhood of twenty-five million dollars.”
Dylan Patel Apr 23, 2026 ▶ 1:44 The Supply and Demand of AI Tokens | Dylan Patel Interview · Invest Like The Best
Aug 4, 2026 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Baker: Dylan Patel's company spends 30% of labor cost on AI tokens
“Well our, your, our friend Dylan Patel at his company, so he's an ASI maxi, but he's at 30%.”
Gavin Baker Aug 4, 2026 ▶ 35:12 Why the Markets Are Pricing AI Wrong | Gavin Baker · Invest Like The Best
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