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Ben Horowitz

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The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on AI Infrastructure, Economics and The New Laws of Software

I mean, like we need, we invested in a transformer company, not like an AI transformer, like an actual power transformer company, because you need, you know, kind of better, easier to manufacture, more efficient.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on AI Infrastructure, Economics and The New Laws of Software

more efficient transformers.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on AI Infrastructure, Economics and The New Laws of Software

And the transformer hasn't changed since really we invest, you know, we invent electricity.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on AI Infrastructure, Economics and The New Laws of Software

So like these kinds of things.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on AI Infrastructure, Economics and The New Laws of Software

Yes.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on AI Infrastructure, Economics and The New Laws of Software

When we were building fiber, the bottlenecks were kind of in different places.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on AI Infrastructure, Economics and The New Laws of Software

So...

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on AI Infrastructure, Economics and The New Laws of Software

you know, we, like, the servers weren't capable of putting, like, bits out even fast enough to do video right.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on AI Infrastructure, Economics and The New Laws of Software

And, like, the software was really, we didn't have load balancers, we didn't have application servers, we didn't have anything.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on AI Infrastructure, Economics and The New Laws of Software

And so you had all this fiber and all this bandwidth, but, like, you couldn't actually build the applications.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on AI Infrastructure, Economics and The New Laws of Software

And then most of the end users weren't, it's a network too, so, you know, people weren't connected on the other end.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on AI Infrastructure, Economics and The New Laws of Software

So it just didn't,

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on AI Infrastructure, Economics and The New Laws of Software

and then we had the dot-com crash and all these things.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on AI Infrastructure, Economics and The New Laws of Software

So now we're in a little different place because almost everything is a bottleneck.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on AI Infrastructure, Economics and The New Laws of Software

I do think what's going to happen is like we'll probably have enough chips long before we have enough electricity.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on AI Infrastructure, Economics and The New Laws of Software

So NVIDIA will make enough chips, but then we won't have enough memory and we won't have enough electricity.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on AI Infrastructure, Economics and The New Laws of Software

So we're in that kind of situation now.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on AI Infrastructure, Economics and The New Laws of Software

So I think you really have to –

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on AI Infrastructure, Economics and The New Laws of Software

study where we are at each point in the supply chain and figure out how to alleviate those bottlenecks.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on AI Infrastructure, Economics and The New Laws of Software

And by the way, you know, God bless Elon, the TeraFab, you know, that's the idea.