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Matt Robinson

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70 total appearances

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

You guys have spent, you know, you spend a lot of time doing some rigorous work here.

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

Say you swap seats with Sam Altman.

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

What do you do differently or what do you keep the same?

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

And to that, you know, this week, as you mentioned earlier, that, you know, the markets were caught flat footed, I guess, to say the least about this, you know, ever expanding compute spend.

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

To me, what's interesting is that, you know, as the hyperscalers just reported, they're capacity constrained, right?

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

You know, we're seeing these big rollouts where, you know, CapEx is huge, but yet they can't meet demand, right?

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

And I think that, you know, maybe it's a little separate, sort of beyond open AI, but I'm just curious, like, how do you see, it's just wild that they're spending this much money and they just can't catch up.

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

I think that the compute demand has been sort of underreported.

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

We all know about CapEx, but I've talked to folks in the enterprise that even when they're not using it, they don't want to give it up.

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

They don't want to lose their spot.

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

So there's just that constant demand for access.

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

Yeah, they didn't want to lose it.

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

I just, yeah, that part of the story is sort of interesting to me.

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

And, you know, we saw so much whiplash in the market this week about what's happening here.

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

Yeah, actually, it reminded me of the study I wrote about.

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

They tested the models on financial analysis to see how well it could do on, you know,

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

And it wasn't as good, but it was improving.

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

But the comparison was like, all right, well, if it's a human, it's like $20 an hour.

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

If it's an agent, it's like 50 cents.

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

But I mean, so it was, but that threshold is, you know, that gap is closing where you can get it, you know, they're making headway into, you know, solving the sort of financial analysis questions.