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Brad Gerstner

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2288 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Elon's Anthropic Deal, The Next AI Monopoly?, "FDA for AI" Panic, Trading the AI Boom

Cloud users have been experiencing rate limits.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Elon's Anthropic Deal, The Next AI Monopoly?, "FDA for AI" Panic, Trading the AI Boom

Well, Cloud has now doubled the Cloud code rate limits, removed peak usage caps for paid users, and increased API volumes for Opus models.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Elon's Anthropic Deal, The Next AI Monopoly?, "FDA for AI" Panic, Trading the AI Boom

XAI is now trading their models at Colossus 2.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Elon's Anthropic Deal, The Next AI Monopoly?, "FDA for AI" Panic, Trading the AI Boom

So they have more than enough compute.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Elon's Anthropic Deal, The Next AI Monopoly?, "FDA for AI" Panic, Trading the AI Boom

Elon made a great bet.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Elon's Anthropic Deal, The Next AI Monopoly?, "FDA for AI" Panic, Trading the AI Boom

on compute and built up those data centers really fast.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Elon's Anthropic Deal, The Next AI Monopoly?, "FDA for AI" Panic, Trading the AI Boom

And that is now paying off.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Elon's Anthropic Deal, The Next AI Monopoly?, "FDA for AI" Panic, Trading the AI Boom

We had the cursor deal we talked about last week.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Elon's Anthropic Deal, The Next AI Monopoly?, "FDA for AI" Panic, Trading the AI Boom

Let's talk about the emergence of Elon Web Services, EWS Chamath.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Elon's Anthropic Deal, The Next AI Monopoly?, "FDA for AI" Panic, Trading the AI Boom

He's now in the hyperscaler competing against Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, and Azure.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Elon's Anthropic Deal, The Next AI Monopoly?, "FDA for AI" Panic, Trading the AI Boom

And I don't know if you had inside information or just a brilliant epiphany, but take us behind the call.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Elon's Anthropic Deal, The Next AI Monopoly?, "FDA for AI" Panic, Trading the AI Boom

And what do you think about the deal itself?

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Elon's Anthropic Deal, The Next AI Monopoly?, "FDA for AI" Panic, Trading the AI Boom

I think the deal is fantastic.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Elon's Anthropic Deal, The Next AI Monopoly?, "FDA for AI" Panic, Trading the AI Boom

I'll say maybe three quick things.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Elon's Anthropic Deal, The Next AI Monopoly?, "FDA for AI" Panic, Trading the AI Boom

The first is, as I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, Anthropic and OpenAI's revenue performance has nothing to do with demand, zero.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Elon's Anthropic Deal, The Next AI Monopoly?, "FDA for AI" Panic, Trading the AI Boom

It is entirely to do with the supply constraints that exist in data centers and specifically in power.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Elon's Anthropic Deal, The Next AI Monopoly?, "FDA for AI" Panic, Trading the AI Boom

If they had infinite power, I think that their revenues would probably be even more parabolic.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Elon's Anthropic Deal, The Next AI Monopoly?, "FDA for AI" Panic, Trading the AI Boom

And so all the breathlessness about either exceeding or underperforming a forecast, in my opinion, mean nothing.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Elon's Anthropic Deal, The Next AI Monopoly?, "FDA for AI" Panic, Trading the AI Boom

I think the five-year view for those two companies is quite robust.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Elon's Anthropic Deal, The Next AI Monopoly?, "FDA for AI" Panic, Trading the AI Boom

The thing that they really need is more compute and more power.