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Gil Luria

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Appearances Over Time

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Prof G Markets
Google Goes All-In on the AI Arms Race

And it aligns them with where they need the cash.

Prof G Markets
Google Goes All-In on the AI Arms Race

Sometimes you have cash in one country and you actually need another.

Prof G Markets
Google Goes All-In on the AI Arms Race

And so a lot of this is tactical, treasury management.

Prof G Markets
Google Goes All-In on the AI Arms Race

Some of this is strategic though, but let's not forget that Microsoft, Amazon, Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Elon are all in this big competition to be the biggest winners in AI, which is going to be a very expensive competition.

Prof G Markets
Google Goes All-In on the AI Arms Race

that many of them believe is going to be winner-take-all or at least winner-take-most.

Prof G Markets
Google Goes All-In on the AI Arms Race

They believe that because their existing markets are like that.

Prof G Markets
Google Goes All-In on the AI Arms Race

So what they're trying to do, and Google is doing this by issuing a 100-year bond,

Prof G Markets
Google Goes All-In on the AI Arms Race

is to say, we're in it for the long haul.

Prof G Markets
Google Goes All-In on the AI Arms Race

We are going to spend as much as it takes to win.

Prof G Markets
Google Goes All-In on the AI Arms Race

And they're not the first ones to do this.

Prof G Markets
Google Goes All-In on the AI Arms Race

Mr. Zuckerberg at Meta signaled the same thing by increasing his CapEx continuously

Prof G Markets
Google Goes All-In on the AI Arms Race

and by paying tens of billion dollars for talent.

Prof G Markets
Google Goes All-In on the AI Arms Race

I forget, he paid $14 billion to hire Alexander Wang.

Prof G Markets
Google Goes All-In on the AI Arms Race

So we're having this kind of signaling in the market by these really large players that are saying, you know what?

Prof G Markets
Google Goes All-In on the AI Arms Race

We're going to outlast everybody.

Prof G Markets
Google Goes All-In on the AI Arms Race

You should blink before we do.

Prof G Markets
Google Goes All-In on the AI Arms Race

I would say that it's a concern for whoever loses.

Prof G Markets
Google Goes All-In on the AI Arms Race

Whoever wins, all this CapEx will have been a great investment.

Prof G Markets
Google Goes All-In on the AI Arms Race

If there's any losers in that group that I mentioned, they're going to be stuck with a lot of infrastructure that they're going to have to sell at a discount.

Prof G Markets
Google Goes All-In on the AI Arms Race

So that's the concern.