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Ed Zitron believes that AI does not have a measurable return on investment (ROI).
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Ed Zitron
Jun 2
Ed Zitron speculates that OpenAI may have lost around $20 billion in the last year.
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Jun 2
Ed Zitron alleges that Microsoft's Fairwater data centers are less than half complete, despite the company's claims that they are fully operational.
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Jun 2
Ed Zitron alleges that a leak about Anthropic's profitability was manipulated by Elon Musk.
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Jun 2
Ed Zitron believes Apple is cautiously holding back on major AI investments, contrary to the narrative that it is 'behind' in a losing proposition.
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Jun 2
Ed Zitron alleges that Anthropic's brief period of profitability was the result of 'planned financial engineering' involving a compute discount from Elon Musk's SpaceX.
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Jun 2
Ed Zitron claims that AI subscriptions are heavily subsidized, with companies losing between $3 and $13.50 for every dollar of subscription revenue.
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Jun 2
Ed Zitron argues that OpenAI and Anthropic should not be allowed to go public because they are unprofitable companies that pose a risk to retail investors' 401(k)s if included in market indices.
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Jun 2
Similar to Uber, Walmart has also reportedly taken measures to manage its AI-related costs.
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Jun 2
Ed Zitron argues that the current AI market rally is a semiconductor rally, not one based on successful underlying AI businesses, which he claims do not exist.
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Jun 2
Citing a report from The Information, Ed Zitron states that OpenAI recently had a negative 122% non-GAAP operating margin.
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Jun 2
Ed Zitron asserts that Meta does not have a coherent AI strategy.
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Jun 2
Ed Zitron claims that Anthropic has raised more than $64 billion in the last six months.
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Jun 2
Ed Zitron predicts that 'neo-cloud' companies like CoreWeave, Cipher Mining, and TerraWolf will become 'shells of the corporations they used to be' if the AI market bubble bursts.
Speculative
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Jun 2
Andrew McDonald, COO of Uber, stated that the company is having difficulty justifying its AI spending based on measurable return on investment.
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Jun 2
Based on his research, Ed Zitron claims it is taking 6 to 12 months to install a single quarter's worth of GPUs from NVIDIA.
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Jun 2
Between 2003 and 2017, Amazon's total capital expenditures were approximately $57 billion, normalized for inflation.
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Jun 2
Ed Zitron claims the AI industry has absorbed over a trillion dollars in investment in the last three years.
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Jun 2
According to Ed Zitron, Uber's lifetime cash burn is approximately $32 billion.
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Jun 2
Anthropic recently began charging its enterprise customers based on actual token rates, revealing the true cost of its services.
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Ed Zitron
Jun 2
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