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Scaling AI means making every dollar—and every watt—count. Our own @chasiu_ joined @furrier on @theCUBE + @NYSEWired to discuss tokens per dollar, tokens per watt, and matching inference hardware to the workload. Watch the interview: piped.video/_keLh5gFEM0?si=plW_…
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Replying to @elonmusk
Anthropic’s IPO hype is peak 4D chess ♟️
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An exclusive evening at the NYSE this Friday ⚡️ #NYSEWired is bringing together @positron_ai, @CrusoeAI, @general_compute and @dMatrix_AI for a closed-door conversation on the future of AI infrastructure. More to follow 👀 #theCUBE
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Thanks for having @RodrigoLiang on @NYSEWired @GemmaAllenSays @bjbaumann2014! A great conversation on energy efficient AI, the economics of inference, AI safety, and where the industry is headed. Watch his full interview with @furrier below ⬇️ piped.video/watch?v=TzfeDotn…
“We’re at the beginning of a completely different era of computing.” – Rodrigo Liang, co-founder & CEO of @SambaNovaAI. Full interview👇 piped.video/watch?v=TzfeDotn… #SambaNova #NYSEWired #theCUBE
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Scoop w/ @rudegeair: The Pentagon is in talks to lend roughly $5 billion to AI cloud-computing startup Fluidstack. All the details in @WSJ wsj.com/tech/ai/pentagon-in-…
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One of the greatest matches ever and very few got to see it live. This needs to be fixed now. It is unfair to the players, the fans, the sponsors, and the sport.
“No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. There’s nothing cool about a tennis match that finishes at 3:33 a.m. It’s ridiculous.” Ben Shelton defeats Carlos Alcaraz in a glorious match that finished at an inhumane hour. Columnist @jasongay asks: Why does tennis keep burying its best product? on.wsj.com/3TlobO4
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Texas Stock Exchange is Close to Winning Its First Major Listing From New York. Kelcy Warren’s @EnergyTransfer is preparing to move its primary listing to the nascent exchange, reports @WSJ Note: Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) does not operate the separate entity known as the Texas Stock Exchange (TXSE), but ICE does operate its own separate exchange in the state called NYSE Texas. Obviously ICE operates @NYSE The Texas Stock Exchange (TXSE) and NYSE Texas are competing financial heavyweights driving Dallas's rising financial district, dubbed "Y'all Street". Both launched operations in mid-2026 to capitalize on Texas's booming corporate migration and economic momentum. While BlackRock, Citadel Securities, Charles Schwab, and JPMorgan Chase are the heavy hitters behind the Dallas "Y'all Street" boom, the capital pool supporting this ecosystem is much wider. The Texas Stock Exchange (TXSE) alone has raised over $270 million from roughly 90 financial backers. Major Financial Firms Support: Goldman Sachs & Bank of America: Both institutions joined as massive strategic investors, injecting late-stage capital into the upstart exchange. Separately, Goldman Sachs is building a massive $700 million corporate campus in downtown Dallas, making it their largest hub outside of Manhattan. Fortress Investment Group: An early institutional equity holder helping to anchor the exchange’s launch. Stephens Inc.: A prominent independent financial services firm backing the regional platform. Liquidity Providers: To ensure smooth day-to-day trading, TXSE secured backing from 7 of the 10 largest liquidity providers in the U.S., including: Jump Trading, Tower Research Capital, Squarepoint Capital, Susquehanna Private Equity Investments. cc @furrier @dvellante @efipm @steveliesman
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Hanging out with @IBM talking hybrid, opensource, and quantum wit CEO Arvind
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Congrats on huge opportunity with all that AI infra.
Today, we’re partnering with Nscale to deploy up to 100,000 GPUs on the NVIDIA Vera Rubin Platform We're committing $3.5 billion initially, with plans to scale beyond $6 billion Bringing a robot into every home demands compute at an unprecedented scale
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Scott Malpass spent 32 years picking managers for Notre Dame's endowment. If he wrote a book on what ruins investment firms, he says there's a clear number one reason. Size. Not bad markets. Not bad luck. Size. Malpass ran Notre Dame's endowment for 32 years, grew it from $400 million to $14 billion, and sat across the table from roughly two thousand investment firms along the way. He now runs Grafton Street Partners. "If I write a book someday on the ten most important investment principles, and what ruins a firm, size is number one," Malpass told me. "Absolutely no question. They just get too big for their strategy, they get sloppy, they get greedy, they start living off management fee, the incentives are not aligned." Here's the mechanism. When Malpass started, management fees were budget based. A firm showed you its actual costs, set the fee to cover them, and made its real money through carry, meaning it only got paid well if the LP did too. In the late eighties, all the money raised in private equity globally was a few billion dollars a year. Today it's hundreds of billions every year. Somewhere in that growth, management fees stopped being a break-even line and became a profit center of their own, whether the fund performed or not. That's a quiet, structural shift most LPs treat as a footnote in fee negotiations. Malpass, after three decades of watching firms up close, calls it the reason great managers stop being great managers. Growth is not always the reward for skill. Sometimes it's the thing that quietly kills it. Special shoutout to @ebeck99 mentioned in this episode! We’d like to thank @AlphaSenseInc for sponsoring this episode! Full episode below 👇 piped.video/bc4MVylXKZY
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I want to prevent a race into unmonitorability kicked off by confused reporting. The depth of the computation graph for our present frontier models, including Astra, is within a factor of two of GPT-4. OpenAI has worked to preserve and utilize chain-of-thought monitoring since our very first reasoning models. We deeply care about this technique, as it can give us a view into how model alignment generalizes from its training distribution. I do think it is fragile and unfortunately trending in a negative direction, for reasons not contingent on architecture changes that I will write about soon. But there are things we can do to strengthen it, and it's a core goal of our current research program.
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Neoclouds have limited cybersecurity. Next time agents successfully go rouge, they'll try taking over a neocloud to run more copies. This is bad. Thus: neoclouds should greatly strengthen their cybersecurity and every company with strong cyber models should help with that.
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Lots of history is revisionist ... this is the case with Clickhouse... This is not a zero-stage startup. You have to understand the facts in this unique case. This was not a standing start startup. Clickhouse come out of Yandex—often called the "Google of Russia"—before spinning out into an independent, US-headquartered corporation. So they had the tech already built at scale. So I would temper the analysis with that fact. It's like saying AWS spinning out DynamoDB as a stage-zero startup.
The story of ClickHouse is truly insane. Started as an open-source project; scaled into the fastest-growing database product ever. Year 1: $0 Year 2: $12M Year 3: $50M Year 4: $200M Year 5 (not complete): My bet is $450M. My notes from our discussion with @ceo_clickhouse below 👇 1. Are Large U.S. Enterprises Scared to Work With Frontier Model Providers? Large enterprises remain skeptical of “zero data retention” claims and wary of sending proprietary source code to frontier labs due to IP indemnification and data leakage concerns. Rather than exposing production code, companies may limit frontier model usage to less sensitive workflows like code review while turning to open-weight alternatives for critical data. 2. How Do You Assess Defensibility and Moat in Companies That Scale Faster Than Ever Before? When an application scales from zero to $100M in ARR in a single year, investors must rigorously question its underlying moat. Hypergrowth without high switching costs leaves companies vulnerable to rapid churn as customers move effortlessly to the next model or tool that leapfrogs the incumbent. 3. How Does This AI Cycle Compare to Prior Technology Shifts and Transitions? Unlike the gradual adoption curves of the internet and mobile eras, the current AI wave is accelerating at an unprecedented pace. Agentic experiences are maturing rapidly, driving explosive revenue growth and placing historically unique performance demands on underlying data infrastructure. 4. What Job Does Not Exist Today That Will Be Very Prevalent in Five Years? A critical new corporate role could be an AI finance function dedicated entirely to managing token consumption and resource allocation across the enterprise. But the role may ultimately be short-lived as autonomous AI agents increasingly manage their own infrastructure spend and budget execution. 5. What Should Investors Be Worried About Today That They Are Not? The biggest overlooked risk in AI today is revenue durability. While infrastructure software benefits from high switching costs, agentic applications can have exceptionally low barriers to switching, raising questions about long-term retention as models and products continually leapfrog one another. 6. Why Revenue Concentration Is a Real Concern Operators and investors should treat revenue concentration as a critical risk, with any single customer or vertical accounting for more than 10% of revenue representing significant exposure. Sustainable enterprise value requires a diversified customer base so losing one account never threatens the company’s overall growth trajectory. (links in comments)
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The story of ClickHouse is truly insane. Started as an open-source project; scaled into the fastest-growing database product ever. Year 1: $0 Year 2: $12M Year 3: $50M Year 4: $200M Year 5 (not complete): My bet is $450M. My notes from our discussion with @ceo_clickhouse below 👇 1. Are Large U.S. Enterprises Scared to Work With Frontier Model Providers? Large enterprises remain skeptical of “zero data retention” claims and wary of sending proprietary source code to frontier labs due to IP indemnification and data leakage concerns. Rather than exposing production code, companies may limit frontier model usage to less sensitive workflows like code review while turning to open-weight alternatives for critical data. 2. How Do You Assess Defensibility and Moat in Companies That Scale Faster Than Ever Before? When an application scales from zero to $100M in ARR in a single year, investors must rigorously question its underlying moat. Hypergrowth without high switching costs leaves companies vulnerable to rapid churn as customers move effortlessly to the next model or tool that leapfrogs the incumbent. 3. How Does This AI Cycle Compare to Prior Technology Shifts and Transitions? Unlike the gradual adoption curves of the internet and mobile eras, the current AI wave is accelerating at an unprecedented pace. Agentic experiences are maturing rapidly, driving explosive revenue growth and placing historically unique performance demands on underlying data infrastructure. 4. What Job Does Not Exist Today That Will Be Very Prevalent in Five Years? A critical new corporate role could be an AI finance function dedicated entirely to managing token consumption and resource allocation across the enterprise. But the role may ultimately be short-lived as autonomous AI agents increasingly manage their own infrastructure spend and budget execution. 5. What Should Investors Be Worried About Today That They Are Not? The biggest overlooked risk in AI today is revenue durability. While infrastructure software benefits from high switching costs, agentic applications can have exceptionally low barriers to switching, raising questions about long-term retention as models and products continually leapfrog one another. 6. Why Revenue Concentration Is a Real Concern Operators and investors should treat revenue concentration as a critical risk, with any single customer or vertical accounting for more than 10% of revenue representing significant exposure. Sustainable enterprise value requires a diversified customer base so losing one account never threatens the company’s overall growth trajectory. (links in comments)
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Transformation Edge in AI. @IBM CFO Jim Kavanaugh with John Furrier nitter.net/i/broadcasts/1RKZzBVLb…
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