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Last week on CNBC Halftime, Brad Gerstner (Brad Gerstner) broke down the AI selloff — first with Scott Wapner (Scott Wapner), then alongside Jensen Huang (NVIDIA): With Scott Wapner on markets + AI CapEx: "There's a fog of war when the rate of change goes parabolic." "When the smartest...

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📊 Brad Gerstner on the single number the entire AI trade now hinges on: "This is the single most important data point in the market today: is Anthropic's monthly revenue, is OpenAI's monthly revenue, going to be $4 billion or $8 billion? It's almost hard to get your head around. Most of us who've been in venture capital for a long time, if you got to a billion dollars in software revenue over four or five years, you were in the top 5% of software companies. But this is what the world is now pricing in." — Brad Gerstner, Founder and CEO of Altimeter Capital, at the All-in Summit.

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⚡ Gavin Baker on why Elon's data center strategy is printing money — and Brad Gerstner on why nobody saw it coming: "If you can borrow money at 6, 7, 8% and invest in something with a 55% ARR, I'm not the most sophisticated thinker, but that math maths... We do know from Jensen that Elon Musk brings data centers up faster than anyone, 122 days. Speed is literally cost." "This whole category of taking all of this compute, which he's uniquely good at standing up, and then reselling it in a way that's highly profitable was not in a lot of people's forecasts — now it's a major component of the forecast." — Gavin Baker & Brad Gerstner on Bg2 Pod / BGGB Pod As Jensen Huang said, “Elon is an N of 1.”

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As Jensen mentioned with Brad Gerstner Bg2 Pod Bill Gurley, something that few people know is that NVIDIA is becoming the American open-source leader in AI, with over 300 contributions of models, datasets and apps on Hugging Face in the past year. And I have a feeling they're just getting started!
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As Jensen mentioned with Brad Gerstner Bg2 Pod Bill Gurley, something that few people know is that NVIDIA is becoming the American open-source leader in AI, with over 300 contributions of models, datasets and apps on Hugging Face in the past year. And I have a feeling they're just getting started!

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Brad Gerstner: Anthropic could *ADD* $200B of Revenue in 2027 - “We’ve never seen anything like this in the history of the world.” Brad Gerstner: “Let me be provocative here. If (Anthropic) ends the year with over $100 billion (in revenue), I think they're on a revenue trajectory that could 3-5x again next year. We've never seen anything like this.” @jason: “You're saying $100B to $300B, or $100B to $400B.” Brad: “Our minds were blown if a company could go from $100M to $300M. Now we're talking from $100B to $300B. $200B of incremental revenue is incomprehensible in the history of Silicon Valley.” Chamath Palihapitiya: “In the history of the world.” Brad: “Yeah, in the history of the world. The fact that we're even talking anywhere close to this tells us something different is going on here. I think the thing that's different is that intelligence is the largest TAM we've ever seen in the history of the world. These guys are penetrating it.”

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