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Tony Kim: AI compute requires $10 trillion in CapEx over five years
“So this is the irony of it all, that we're, the trillion dollars of CapEx this year, and the 10 trillion over the next five years that are coming,
Is to move data centimeters and millimeters.
That's AI.”
Tech revenues are shifting from high-margin cloud to lower-margin AI compute
“Like, these, you must build these new data centers, because at some point, all of your revenue will become here, and this revenue over here in the old data center, that was asset light, high margin, is now moving to asset heavy, lower margin, big dollars, but …”
Tony Kim: Utility-scale, million-qubit quantum computers will arrive around 2030
“It's very interesting when you look at these long-dated technologies. All roads converge to 2030. It's like quantum computing, utility scale, logically error-corrected, million-qubit quantum computer, twenty-thirty.”
Tony Kim: Chip companies have higher profit margins than software or pharmaceuticals
“They have the highest profitability of any company in the world of the sector is chip companies. They're higher margins than software, pharmaceuticals, industrials, telecom, anything.”
Tony Kim: China has 30 to 40 potential robotics IPOs this year
“I'm looking at the current pipeline. I see 30, 40 potential IPOs this year in China.”
Future robotics will pair Chinese-manufactured physical bodies with Western AI brains
“And then what you might have is ultimately you can mix and match Chinese physical robot with a Western brain. And I know that's happening.”
Tony Kim: Enterprises must position themselves within the AI token flow
“So, you must be in this token flow to either resell or repackage the tokens with your context and your very specific application. You serving the token with your intelligence? Is it the proprietary closed source token? Is it the open source token? Sitting on a…”
Tony Kim expects massive public market appetite for AI lab IPOs
“I am, ah, I'm hopeful, excited to see the big labs go public in the next 12 months. I think that will be, I think that'll be, I think it'll be interesting. It'll be exciting. And I think there is huge market appetite for it.”
Tony Kim: Tech sector has shifted from software-centric to compute-centric allocation
“We went from a, let's call it a
A software-centric world to a compute-centric world.”
Tony Kim: Memory primacy will surpass pure compute in upcoming AI architectures
“Today we're all talking about compute, compute, compute. I think the primacy of memory will become even more important.”
Global tech market cap is $10T software, $20T Mag-7, $30T hardware
“10 trillion in software service internet, 20 trillion in Mag-Seven, 30 trillion in non-Mag-Seven compute chips hardware. That's a, I don't think people would realize that we are that compute hardware centric now. 10, 20, 30. Before AI, BCE era, it was probably…”
Tony Kim: AI foundation models have drained market cap from traditional software
“The models themselves, like it or not, have consumed the market cap out of software and services. It is just, you know, it's like the Borg. It is consumed.”
Tony Kim: Data centers are shifting from copper to optical interconnects
“Another will be around the chip architectures, and then another one will be around the movement of data, and so we're going from a regime of copper to a regime of light.”
800-volt power architectures and solid-state transformers will transform AI data centers
“The rise of 800 volt. It's gonna have a transformative effect. And then ultimately a solid state transformers.”
Tony Kim targets 90% of his investments within a three-year AI horizon
“In this kind of three year window, That is probably where 90 plus percent of my investment, well, ninety-ish percent, something like that, you know, the majority is going in.”
Companion robots do not require perfect human-scale motor articulation for market success
“Do you need to have A fully figured, perfect motor function with, you know, all the hand articulation, or could you get something that can appeal to that? And I think that's possible. I think that will be a fascinating market to see. So yeah, I think that'd be…”