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Marks: The investor who best understands AI will dominate the next decade
“Who is the person in the investment business today who will find the most success in the next 10 years? The answer is, in my opinion, the person who best understands AI and its capabilities and implications.”
Banga: 1.2B emerging-market youth will reach adulthood facing only 400M jobs
“1.2 billion young people in the emerging markets are going to become 18 years of age in the coming Mutomati 15 years. Right?
Yeah.
Currently, the same markets, currently, this is pre-AI, and we can talk about AI's impacts on the developed world versus the de…”
Kamath: The world will invariably move to socialism in cyclical shifts
“You know, the cynic in me, Has kind of resigned to the fate that the world invariably will move to socialism. I believe these are cycles.”
Banga: Fossil fuels will not disappear quickly due to AI energy demands
“Fossil fuels aren't going away in a hurry, because the mix of energy you need, and the quantum of energy you need, compared to the AI, even more so, you're not going to get that easily only with renewables because of various aspects to do with the cycle as wel…”
Sunak: Baseline US tariffs will remain high regardless of future presidents
“The baseline of tariffs to the U.S. Is going to be higher in the future. I think regardless of who the president is. Not least because whoever the new president is will have got used to the tariff revenue. It's quite a hard thing to get rid of.”
Staniszewski: Headphones will likely be the primary voice AI form factor
“I do think it most likely will be the most natural form factor given it's already one of the key devices.”
Kamath: Major countries will develop sovereign versions of global tech platforms
“The way I'm looking at it with all the geopolitical stuff going on, if I were to wager a guess, I would think at some point in the future, we will all live in a more multipolar world where we individually countries go down the path of Russia and China, where m…”
Staniszewski: Only a few global companies will pre-train foundational AI models
“Like let's take building foundational AI models. I think the kind of, the base will be pre-trained by few companies in the world, just given the resources required. They'll be open source of course offerings in that bucket. But then Probably, as I think about …”
Palihapitiya: Pessimists predicting AI will eliminate human jobs will be proven wrong
“I suspect that, again, today, we don't have a good language to talk about how we will all participate, but I suspect that if you take a pessimistic view of the answer to this question, you will turn out to be wrong.”
Palihapitiya: Five or six monolithic tech giants will no longer dominate media
“Five or six monolithic large global companies are just going to dominate all of media consumption. I actually don't think that's, what's going to happen anymore. And that's a really interesting idea. Again, it's not about making like one huge cyborg company th…”
Amodei: AI will automate coding first, then end-to-end software engineering
“I think coding is going away first, or coding is being, you know, done by the AI models first, and then the broader task of software engineering will take longer, but I think that is, you know, that doing that end to end, I think that is going to happen as wel…”
Amodei: Static training data is becoming less central than dynamic RL data
“Static data is becoming less important and what we might call like dynamic data that the model creates itself is, you know, for reinforcement learning is becoming more important. So, you know, I don't think data is, is, is quite the most central thing anymore,…”
Harari: US strong-arm tactics will damage European alliance for years
“Even if you get what you want in the short term, and what happened in the last, of course, it's not just the last few weeks, it's the last few years, but the Europeans will not forget that. And the feeling that you get that, I don't know, your best friend is w…”
Harari: Humanity is close to AI becoming Earth's most powerful entity
“I don't think we have reached that point in 2026, but I think we are close to the point when the most important, powerful, if you want, entity on the planet is no longer a human being, Or a group of human beings, but an AI.”
Harari: AI-to-AI trade using compute tokens could render fiat currencies irrelevant
“We could reach a point when, for instance, currency will be AI tokens, or even time on servers, or data. That AIs will trade with other AIs for tokens or for data, not for dollars. And the human currencies, like dollars and euros and yens, they will become irr…”
Harari: AI could eliminate the need for human coders in five years
“If you're trying to, you know, you build your skills as a young person, don't focus on a very narrow skill like coding, because maybe in five years they don't need coders because AIs code better than us.”
Al Olama: AI Will Enable Small Nations to Compete with Billion-Person Countries
“However, with AI, I think we will have the ability to punch way above our weight, and we will be able to sit on the table with the larger countries.”
Al Olama: AI Adoption Gap Will Resemble Wood Fire vs Electricity
“Those who embrace AI wholeheartedly, but as those who embrace AI with, you know, a lot of red tape and a lot of nuances, the difference is going to be between a community that still lives on wood fire versus a community that lives in the 21st century with elec…”
Dalio predicts central banks are unlikely to hold Bitcoin as reserve wealth
“Bitcoin is limited in supply, and its perception of money, it is a form of money, it, it's perceived as money, as a storehold of wealth, that is unlikely to be significantly held by central banks, and many others, because of a number of Problems it has.”
Dalio: India has the best fundamentals for highest 10-year economic growth
“India is going to have probably the, has the best fundamentals to have the best growth rate in that, because you're going from not having enough money to having, that has infrastructure.”
Musk: Goods output growth will outpace money supply within three years
“In three years or less, my guess is goods and services output will exceed the rate of inflation. Like goods and services growth will exceed money supply growth in about three years.”
Musk: College skills will likely be unnecessary in a post-work society
“Will these skills be necessary in the future?
[4402] Elon Musk: Probably not.
[4404] Elon Musk: Because we're going to be in, like, a post-work society.”
Musk: Future movies and games will be overwhelmingly real-time AI generated
“I mean, I think it's going to be overwhelmingly AI generated. Yeah. Like, yeah, real, real time movies and video games. Real, real time video generation, I think, is where things are headed.”
Musk: Mandating payment codes on federal transfers saves $200B yearly
“I mean, some of them are very basic efficiencies, like just adding in requirements for federal payments that, that any given payment must have an assigned congressional payment code and a comment field with something in it that's more than nothing. Like, that,…”
Rahman: Human artists will beat AI by deliberately breaking creative conventions
“Humans have this evolutionary spirit, and we will do something else. We'll go back and do something which is completely wrong, which will be very cool.”
Adcock: Paying Passengers Will Fly on Electric Aircraft Within 5 Years
“So I think within the next, like, five years, we'll be taking passengers, like, paying passengers around in, in air spaces here in the world on electric aircraft like this.”
Adcock: All Aviation Will Transition to Electric in Our Lifetime
“Like, my view is, like, all aircraft, like, all, all aviation, like, all air transport will move electric here. And I think hopefully in our lifetime”
Adcock: Billions of Humanoid Robots Will Exist Within Our Lifetime
“I think we'll, we'll see billions of humanoids on the planet in our, in, like, our lifetime, and they will do everything for us from things at home, like, doing the laundry, washing dishes unpacking groceries cleaning up the house to, we will see billions in t…”
Adcock: True general-purpose humanoid robots are under 10 years away
“I don't, it's not something we'll solve in a month, but it's certainly not something that's 10 years away at this point.”
Adcock: Voice AI will approach human Turing tests within 12–18 months
“We will see in 12 to 18 months voice models approaching human Turing tests, and that's not just from an IQ perspective and information retrieval, it's EQ as well, as we just talked about in naturalness.”
Adcock: Humanoid robotics will create the world's largest company by far
“My view is that there's going to be a generational company to be built that We'll be able to put, ultimately, billions of robots on the planet that will build, like, the largest company we've ever seen in the world by a long shot.”
Adcock: Robot costs will drop dramatically over the next five years
“You'll have this dramatic reduction here over the next, like, five years as we approach higher volume manufacturing, and then you'll have another step down once robots can fully build robots in the loop together, and you remove all human labor from the whole m…”
Modi: Prestige beauty will reach 10% of India's market in 3-4 years
“Today, prestige is only four percent of the beauty market. As I was telling him, it'll be 10% in the next three to four years.”
Kamath: Delivery worker unionization will severely skew quick commerce unit economics
“When seven, eight players come into the foray, and they start unionizing, and they start asking for benefits at some point that cost to convenience math will get skewed and not for the better.”
Kamath: People who frequently change their minds will become more valuable with AI
“So in a way, in a very perverse way, people who change their mind constantly in the future, Will have more of a use case in a world where predictability becomes very low hanging fruit because of AI.”
Kamath: The era of the Indian rupee depreciating 4-5% annually is over
“I think that rupee depreciating four percent a year versus the dollar or five percent on average, that error is over.”
Sharma: Global equity markets will outperform the US over the next decade
“No, my view is very clear just now, that over the next 10, five, 10 years, I think the rest of the world outperforms the US.”
Sharma: The US dollar will remain relatively weak for 5 to 7 years
“And a very key part of this is going to be that the dollar, I think, is going to be relatively weak for the next Five, seven years for the foreseeable future.”
Sharma predicts large caps will outperform small and mid caps for the foreseeable future
“One of my big top trends was this, that I expect much more that the large caps to outperform small to mid caps for the small caps for at least the foreseeable future.”
Sharma: Poland is likely the next emerging market to achieve developed status
“And so the next country to become a developed country likely is going to be Poland.”
Sharma: Consumers, not AI producers, will capture economic value over next decade
“That is my thing that for the next, in the next five to 10 years, that we as a consumer will benefit, but I'm not sure that the producers of AI, so to speak, are going to be the beneficiaries. I don't think that's going to be the case.”
Kothari: Society's digital shift will make physical real estate far more expensive
“As we get more and more things in the digital world, like real estate actually becomes far more expensive. Nikhil Kamath: Why? Nikunj Kothari: Because that's the only asset people can hold on to.”
Kothari: Biotech will be the top sector for AI-driven discoveries
“Literally one sector will discover the most things where AI will be useful, it's biotech.”
Kamath: Content will be the biggest differentiator for brand success
“With search being disrupted in the manner that it is, and people, let's assume, use Google a lot lesser, or any kind of search platform that is throwing up ads. And if anyone wants to build a brand, social media might exist in some form, but Google ads and the…”
Kothari: AI energy demand will force increased fossil fuel extraction this decade
“I actually think the world gets worse in the near term because energy will become the fundamental limiter, which means we will frack more. We'll pull more from the ocean because nuclear fission and fusion will still take time to build. You can't build solar pa…”
Kothari: The era of second-mover advantage in AI startups begins now
“I think not on Harvey, but I'm saying in general, especially with the RL focus and model stabilizing. I think the era of second mover advantages starts this year. Okay. Or starts now, basically, where we'll start seeing even companies started three years ago b…”
Khosrowshahi: OpenAI and Google will completely dominate AI travel inspiration startups
“I would not go after the inspiration side, because I think the inspiration side, thank you very much, is, is going to be served really, really well by an open AI or a Google.”
Khosrowshahi: An umbrella AI agent above all OTAs will win travel booking
“The ultimate solution is going to be an agent that can sit above it all, and can kind of scour the internet and scour all the booking services and then surface the results, which may be a mix and match of all of them for you based on your tastes.”