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Kim: AI Recursive Self-Improvement Could Arrive Within Nine Months, Massively Draining Compute
“RSI, I think, is a lot closer than people think. And if RSI actually happens in the next three, six, nine months, That's gonna soak up insane amount of compute.”
Kim: $200B in Current Hyperscaler AI CapEx Will Generate Massive Free Cash Flow
“So that's why you're investing two hundred billion dollars now, and in a year or two, we're gonna see insane amounts of free cash flow.”
Tae Kim: Agentic AI growth in next 6-9 months will exceed expectations
“Right now Agentsic AI is taking off, and the next six, nine months are going to be bigger than anyone believes”
Kim: Nvidia's US-China regulatory approvals will drive billions in H200 orders
“And one thing that kind of went under the radar, Jensen literally said at GTC they got license approvals on both the U.S. And China side, so we're gonna see billions of dollars of H 200 orders.”
Kim: The rise of AI agents will drive massive server CPU demand
“AI agents need more CPUs. The ARM CEO talked about four times more CPU quarter cores versus last year's kind of AI infrastructure model. So we're gonna see this massive Demand for CPUs that people aren't really understanding it. Because AI agents, the whole th…”
Kim: Elon Musk will pitch space-based GPU satellites for SpaceX IPO
“I think Elon's pitch with the SpaceX IPO, and we'll see it in the coming months, is the AI compute, it's gonna be so, there's gonna be so much demand over the next five, 10 years, that you're gonna have to use these SpaceX satellites that have GPUs in them. To…”
Kim: AI chatbots threatening search positions Meta better than Google
“Like, no one's going to replace better digital ad position. I mean, like, I would even say in the AI world, they're even better positioned, because Google might lose digital ad share to AI chatbots, their search position in the future. So, like, no one's going…”
Kim: NVIDIA will add major revenue over two years via locked-up supply
“Over the next year or two, you're going to see NVIDIA able to add tons of revenue because they were able to lock up all the supply components.”
Kim: Mark Zuckerberg may waste $100 billion on frontier AI models
“I mean, reality labs, he made a waste of 70 to eighty billion dollars. He may waste a hundred billions of dollars on, on these Frontier AI models.”
Kim: Meta Will Need Six to Twelve Months for Further AI Progress
“It's going to take time. It's going to take six to 12 months before we see any more progress.”