로보틱스 스타트업 창업자, 오스틴 방문 후 "테슬라 강세론을 체감"
- 다운타운 모든 거리에 금색 사이버캡이 달리고 있음
- 텍사스에선 이제 로보택시가 웨이모보다 많음
- 테슬라의 제조 확장력을 보면 남은 병목은 사실상 규제뿐
- 도심 택시 용도로는 자율주행이 해결된 문제로 보임
- 사이버캡 플릿이 1년 안에 100배가 돼도 이상하지 않음
cf. 베단트 나이르 : 로봇 플릿 관리 인프라 스타트업 미루 로보틱스 (YC S24) 공동창업자
One thing that’s struck me about being back in ATX this week is the sheer amount of Cybercabs here. Every single street in downtown has the gold cars zipping around. It’s striking and in your face.
There are so so many Robotaxis - now more than Waymo in TX.
I don’t think people are able to properly grasp what’s coming. @Tesla’s incredible ability (and now renewed focus) to scale manufacturing means that the only practical bottleneck at this point is regulation. For the purposes of a taxi service in metro areas, self driving seems like a solved problem.
I now have a visceral understanding of the Tesla bull case. Not crazy to say that the Cybercab fleet will 100x in the next year.
@Dimdv99@tetsuoai Not as good. Opus 5.5 is a masterpiece.
But Grok 5 should exceed Opus 5.5 and maybe that happens in 2 or 3 months, with continued acceleration thereafter.
앤트로픽, S-1 서류 중 단기 칩 임대 관련
- 단기계약은 장기계약보다 훨씬 비싼데, 수요가 넘쳐서 어쩔 수 없이 쓰는 중
- 이런 계약으로 당분간 마진이 줄어들 것이라고 명시
- 칩을 직접 리스해서 전용 데이터센터에 두는 방식(앤트로픽 다이렉트)이 가동되면, 싼 장기계약으로 대체 예정
What Anthropic's S-1 discloses about its expensive short term chip rentals (aimed at SpaceX)
- Most compute is secured 12 to 18 months in advance under multiyear contracts. When customer or research demand exceeds that capacity, the company buys short term compute, which "currently" costs "significantly more" than comparable compute under multiyear contracts.
- The scale was $5.0 billion in Q3 and $6.5 billion over the first nine months.
- Operating income of $970 million in Q2 turned into an operating loss of $570 million in Q3. The company attributes this to $5.0 billion of short term compute and $2.0 billion of noncash donation matching charges.
- Use of short term compute will keep increasing in the near term, and operating margin will be compressed as a result.
- As of the end of September, minimum payments under short term contracts (cancelable without penalty within one year, or with a remaining term of one year or less) were about $17.4 billion. About $6.6 billion more has been signed since October.
- Once Anthropic Direct, under which the company leases chips directly and hosts them in dedicated data centers, comes online, the company will replace the short term compute bought during demand surges with cheaper long term compute.
Interpretation:
- Excluding short term capacity, Q3 compute cost was $4.86 billion, below the Q2 total of $5.56 billion. Long term contracted capacity barely grew in Q3. In effect, the $5.4 billion increase in revenue was served with short term capacity.
- Revenue per dollar of compute fell from $2.08 in Q2 to $1.72 in Q3. The company also notes that this metric declined from the prior quarter.
- The $17.4 billion short term contract balance plus the $6.6 billion of new contracts comes to $24.0 billion, about one third of the $70.7 billion due over the next 12 months. More than the Q3 pace ($5.0 billion a quarter) is already under contract.
Question: Will Anthropic keep paying SpaceX a huge premium after March 2027?
Source: Anthropic’s S-1 filing
사이버캡의 상한은 차량호출 시장이 아니라 "사람의 이동량"
- 기존 비교 : 우버 시가총액
- 새 프레임 : 사람과 물건을 옮기는 총비용 전체 (승용차 운행 포함)
마일당 가격이 내려갈수록 이동 수요 자체가 늘어남 (컴퓨팅이 싸지자 총사용량이 폭증한 것과 같은 제번스 역설). 파이를 나눠 먹는 게 아니라, 가격이 내려갈 때마다 파이가 커지는 구조
cf. 일론 : Yup
Cybercab's ceiling may be set by how much people are willing to travel, not by the size of today's rideshare market.
@JOBhakdi argues that a much cheaper, frictionless ride grows total usage the way cheaper compute grew total computing. Elon is already saying Cybercab will do a majority of all passenger miles wherever it's legal.
That makes valuing Tesla against Uber's market cap backwards. The real comparison is the entire cost of moving people and goods, and that number grows every time the price per mile falls. $TSLA
샘 올트먼, 삼성 임원 Q&A에서 네오클라우드 버블 우려에 답변
- 수요 : "일부 수요가 이중으로 집계됐다"
- 향후 5~10년 : "단기적으로는 오르내림이 있다"
- 수요 주도 : "실제로 수요를 크게 늘리는 건 오픈AI와 앤트로픽 두 곳뿐이라 공급 충격과 혼란기가 올 수 있다"
During a Q&A with Samsung executives, Sam Altman addressed concerns about a bubble in the neocloud sector, saying, “There has been some double counting of demand.”
Asked whether demand for AI, memory chips, and data centers could level off or grow more slowly over the next five to ten years, he replied, “There are ups and downs in the short term.”
“OpenAI and Anthropic are the only two companies really driving substantial growth in demand, so we could see a supply shock and a period of turbulence,” Altman said.
New permit: a 16-stall private EV charging station at Tesla's Plano–Lexington service and delivery center, filed Oct 27.
That's 6 days after Tesla posted a Robotaxi Operations Manager job in Plano, Texas.
The site already has a private Supercharger, so this would add 16 more stalls.
Interesting remarks Anthropic made in a meeting with the sell side:
- Anthropic has the stability and the better talent that open source lacks.
- The AI market is winner take all. As long as we execute properly, we will take all of it.
- The contract with SpaceX will not be extended beyond the middle of next year.
- Developing Opus 5.5 cost more than $10 billion.
First time in a Cybercab
No steering wheel ✅
Very comfortable seat and cabin ✅
Smooth ride ✅
They’re everywhere in Austin, you can’t pass a block in the downtown without seeing at least one.
A vision-based, safety-critical robotics system working at scale. What a time to be alive!!