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Azeem Azhar

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Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Inside the economics of OpenAI (exclusive research)

And when we did the work on OpenAI, their models hadn't crossed that uncanny valley.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Inside the economics of OpenAI (exclusive research)

Right, GPT-5 was not the thing you could leave to run for hours at a time.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Inside the economics of OpenAI (exclusive research)

4.5 Opus from Claude from Anthropic was really the first.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Inside the economics of OpenAI (exclusive research)

And I'm just curious, my sense would be that all of this discussion starts to look very different

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Inside the economics of OpenAI (exclusive research)

When OpenAI is shipping things that run five, six, nine hours at a time.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Inside the economics of OpenAI (exclusive research)

Because at that point, actually, you know, the inertia of being an OpenAI user through the enterprise or through the customer sticks with you.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Inside the economics of OpenAI (exclusive research)

And the only thing I would say is just think about dear old Mini Arnold, who costs me the same as, you know, four Starbucks flat whites a day to do whatever the hell he's doing in his Mac Mini.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Inside the economics of OpenAI (exclusive research)

I don't know what he's doing.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Inside the economics of OpenAI (exclusive research)

I don't ask.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Inside the economics of OpenAI (exclusive research)

It's his private space.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Inside the economics of OpenAI (exclusive research)

You know, get on with it, Mini Arnold.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Inside the economics of OpenAI (exclusive research)

So that is that for me is like is how we merge, you know, Hannah's observation, like kind of the user experience, user interactions patterns with Jaime's point, which is this is all about infrastructure, because ultimately all that processing has to happen somewhere.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Inside the economics of OpenAI (exclusive research)

And that becomes a choke point.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Inside the economics of OpenAI (exclusive research)

So I love what you've just said, Jaime, because of course, you know, the general note out there is it's all about the energy.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Inside the economics of OpenAI (exclusive research)

Like energy is the bottleneck.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Inside the economics of OpenAI (exclusive research)

And I think it's pretty...

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Inside the economics of OpenAI (exclusive research)

clear that energy is constrained because of lead times and so on.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Inside the economics of OpenAI (exclusive research)

But if you listen to Elon Musk talk about why he wants to put data centers in space, every single thing, reason, comes down to things we've done to ourselves, grid permitting, backlogs.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Inside the economics of OpenAI (exclusive research)

I mean, these things are cues.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Inside the economics of OpenAI (exclusive research)

They're not walls.