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Jay Jacobs

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And essentially, as much money as the major large language model providers are plowing into capital expenditures, they can't keep up with AI demand.

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So even just in the last several months, I think the narrative has shifted in the market from that of

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Are we worried companies are over-investing in CapEx to what if companies are actually under-investing in CapEx?

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Could we start to see bottlenecks in artificial intelligence?

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Or some of the most powerful models, frankly, have to be throttled because there's so much demand to use them versus the compute that's actually available across the economy.

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So, yes, the CapEx is accelerating.

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The numbers are quite staggering of what we see being invested each year.

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However, the demand is backing it up and the revenue from demand is immediately backing it up.

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So this is not the same as speculatively building telecom infrastructure.

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And then, you know, if we build it, they will come kind of scenario.

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This is meeting real demand in real time.

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Well, it looks across the entire artificial intelligence tech stack.

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I mean, it starts with some of the lowest levels, which is really in the infrastructure.

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So think about the power that's supplying data centers, the data centers themselves, the real estate, the hardware going into those data centers.

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Think about all the semiconductors, whether it's memory, whether it's GPUs, whether it's CPUs that are powering those data centers.

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On top of that, there's the data layer.

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Think about the proprietary data that's training a lot of large language models.

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There's the large language models themselves that are being more and more powerful.

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We're seeing that software improve significantly year over year.

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And then, of course, you have the applications and products that are using those large language models to utilize agents, whether that's