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Patel: Anthropic's $300B revenue target for 2030 is too low
“And when Anthropic says in their funding, like, hey, we're gonna have three hundred billion dollars of revenue by the end of the decade, and it's like, actually I think that number's too low. Because the economic value of what they're gonna create is gonna be …”
Patel: Power is less than 10% of total AI cluster cost
“Power is less than 10% of the cost of the cluster. Right? So, so like, it's that 90% you're not saving anything on.”
Patel: Blackwell GPU failure rates sit at 10%–15% versus Hopper's 5%
“Over time, like, Hopper's now at five percent, but Blackwell's still 10 to 15%. Actually started out higher than that.”
Patel: Nvidia is diversifying chip architectures due to AI uncertainty
“You've got, like, CPX, you've got, like, the standard GPU, and now you've got the Grok chips, and they all fill a different niche, but really it screams, oh crap, we don't really know exactly where AI is going, which I don't think anyone does, right? I mean, i…”
Patel: Inference speed matters more than data center location for agents
“You have people thinking like, oh, latency matters in terms of where a data center is. It doesn't matter at all. What matters is, you know, as we've moved from, you know, chat applications, which were like, or search response immediately, chat applications, le…”
Patel: xAI and Anthropic compute leads bet on space data centers by 2028
“Well, there's a bet, right, between basically the head of compute of XAI and the head of compute of Anthropic. And the bet is, what percentage of worldwide data center capacities in space by the end of 28, and the bar is one percent. And so the XAI guy is like…”
Patel: Semiconductor fab capacity will become the primary AI bottleneck in 2027
“The baton got passed from semiconductor shortages in 23 to power and data centers in 24, 25. 26, we're still, we're swinging the pendulum, but it will fully beat semiconductors again in 27, right?”
Patel: Selling chip equipment to China generates disproportionate economic value
“And my argument is, like, more economic in the sense of, like, if you sell them, like, tens of billions of dollars of equipment, they can make hundreds of billions of dollars of AI value, or chips, with that equipment, whereas if you sell them AI model access,…”
Patel: Claude Code is for non-coders, not software developers
“So I think everyone's, like, cloud code is for coders, and it's like, no. Cloud code is for people who don't code now. Right? And that's the big realization this year.”
Patel: AI startup revenue will surpass $100B by year-end
“How many people even believe by the end of the year, AI startup revenue is over a hundred billion dollars? I think that's an insane statement for a lot of people, but that's what it's gonna be, right?”
Patel: Meta licensed all of Midjourney's code, data, and models
“Meta's licensed all of Midjourney's code, data, models.”
Tier-2 and tier-3 AI labs will completely sell out of compute capacity
“It's pretty clear even the tier two lab is going to be sold out of tokens, let alone the tier one lab. The tier one lab will have better margins, but the tier two lab will be sold out, and probably the tier three lab will also be close to sold out.”
Patel: OpenAI's 750MW deal is small compared to 16GW 2028 target
“So the OpenAI deal is like for seven 50 megawatts, it's not that much capacity. On the order of like what OpenAI has talked about, you know, by the end of 28 they'll be at like 16 gigawatts.”
Patel: Google is splitting TPU production between Broadcom and MediaTek
“Yeah, so, so for the longest time Google's had, ah, one main line of TPUs, right? All made by Broadcom, and then sort of next year they've diverged it, right? Where Broadcom makes a TPU, ah, and MediaTek makes a TPU. These two TPUs are focused at different thi…”
Patel: Market sentiment on OpenAI is peak negative due to Anthropic
“People are peak negative on OpenAI right now because of how good Anthropix has been killing it.”
Patel: Automating TSMC cleanroom labor offers minimal economic upside
“I'm bullish on robots, like super bullish on robots, but only for like, not for tasks that have like, TSMC's Arizona fabs, or okay, let's say TSMC Tynon, which I think produces like, you know, indirectly hundreds of billions of dollars of global GDP, even dire…”
Patel: Meta is buying small clusters from long-tail compute providers
“Well, Meta interestingly has gone down market for a compute because they, there's not enough compute in the big size deal. So they've actually gone and like bought like small clusters.”
Patel: Nvidia's pre-fill CPX chip will release later in 2026
“They launched this thing called CPX, which is a chip made for pre-fill with, you know, prompt processing, creating a KV cache, and also good at, like, video generation and image generation. And that's coming out later this year.”
Patel: Anthropic separates inference and training across different chip clusters
“You know, you do your inference on one set of chips and you do your training on another set of chips. So like, Anthropic does this.”
Patel: Memory chip manufacturers have built no new fabs since 2022
“The memory makers, in fact, have just not expanded capacity, basically, they have not built new fabs since twenty-twenty-two.”
Patel: Chinese users access Anthropic via routing through neighboring countries
“I think Anthropic does not sell AI access to China. You know, they loop it through, and you can see this in the traffic data. They go through Korea and Japan and other places, but like, and so they get it.”
Patel: Meta's ad algorithm drove a 9% CPM increase in one quarter
“It's clear if you look at the most recent earnings, I think their CPM went up nine percent when the consumer's weak, which means, like, if you were to, like, try and strip out, like, what is consumer spending increasing for CPM of ads versus what is the effect…”
Patel: Meta poached Google search staff with massive compensation deals
“They actually poached Google search people with similar size deals as, like, these crazy...”