Air Street Capital

6 statements across 2 episodes · 5 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 14, 2024 by Nathan Benaich · said 5 times in 1 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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Nov 14, 2024 bullish
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AI inference costs plummeted from $60 to $0.06 per million tokens
“The most expensive models like a year ago to now, I don't know, the most expensive one is maybe like 600 dollars, sorry, 60 dollars per million tokens, and now the cheapest one is probably like 0.06 dollars per million tokens. Not the same level of intelligenc…”
Nathan Benaich Nov 14, 2024 ▶ 18:47 State of AI 2024: Frontier Models, AI Geopolitics, Robotics | Nathan Benaich, Air Street Capital
Oct 30, 2025 bullish
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NVIDIA stock outperformed private AI chip startup investments 12x to 2x
“If you bought NVIDIA stock on the day of the announcement of all the, like, private rounds in these companies, what would the value of your stock be in NVIDIA versus these companies? And if I recall correctly, it's basically 12 X in NVIDIA versus two X in in t…”
Nathan Benaich Oct 30, 2025 ▶ 27:43 State of AI 2025 with Nathan Benaich: Power Deals, Reasoning Breakthroughs, Real Revenue
Oct 30, 2025
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A 1GW AI data center requires $50B CapEx and $8B-$11B annually
“The biggest step for me is one gigawatt of a data center for AI basically costs fifty billion dollars in capex. And on an annual running basis, it costs between, like, another eight to nine eight to nine to maybe even eleven billion dollars to run.”
Nathan Benaich Oct 30, 2025 ▶ 20:07 State of AI 2025 with Nathan Benaich: Power Deals, Reasoning Breakthroughs, Real Revenue
Oct 30, 2025 bullish
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NVIDIA chips power 90% of open-source AI research papers
“If you do that analysis, you basically find that 90% of all papers make use of a NVIDIA chip.”
Nathan Benaich Oct 30, 2025 ▶ 26:11 State of AI 2025 with Nathan Benaich: Power Deals, Reasoning Breakthroughs, Real Revenue
Oct 30, 2025 positive
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Top 20 major AI companies generate tens of billions in revenue
“If you sum sort of the top 20 or so major AI companies from the labs to the most popular kind of vertical applications, you know, across them, they're making tens of billions of dollars of revenue.”
Nathan Benaich Oct 30, 2025 ▶ 7:10 State of AI 2025 with Nathan Benaich: Power Deals, Reasoning Breakthroughs, Real Revenue
Oct 30, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
76% of surveyed AI practitioners pay for tools out of pocket
“95% of people use AI in their personal life and in their professional life. About 76% of people pay out of their own pocket for it. It's like 10% of people pay more than 200 bucks a month for it. And then looking at the organizations that they work at, it's li…”
Nathan Benaich Oct 30, 2025 ▶ 9:06 State of AI 2025 with Nathan Benaich: Power Deals, Reasoning Breakthroughs, Real Revenue
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