The news is pretty heartbreaking:
$META 20% layoffs
$ORCL layoffs
$AMZN 600,000 workers long term layoffs as they get replaced by robotics and AI.
This is a dystopian future.
Companies end up with record profits, without the cost of human labor.
The only way to benefit:
Investing in AI as a hedge.
The next few years feels like the main way to escape the permanent underclass, caused by AI displacement.
The return on equity derived from AI will go to the shareholders.
While the gap between those who live paycheck to paycheck, not invested in stocks. Will continue to grow.
This is not the future.
- Opus 4.6 is good enough to replace most software engineers today.
- Waymo has started to replace taxi drivers in places like SF today.
- We know $TSLA Humanoids are coming next as they’re widespread in China, today.
This is happening now.
Disruptions in Iran are only temporary to the accelerating AI buildout.
AI has hit the inflection point, and looks inevitable.
You’re already seeing US job revisions down close to 1 Million, which is staggering.
And we’re seeing the newest LLMs be built by their previous models, as AI approaches the singularity (AI led recursive growth).
Investing in where the compute and hardware needed to run the AI:
From the datacenter/power/grid sector:
$NBIS, $XLU, $VRT, $BE
Photonics sector needed to scale AI:
$LITE, $COHR, $AAOI, $TSEM
Semi sector needed for the chips:
$NVDA, $TSM, $ASML, $INTC
Memory sector for the chips:
$MU, $SNDK, SK Hynix, Samsung
ASICs for hyperscaler AI inference:
$AVGO, $MRVL, Mediatek
Yields sector to make sure the chips work:
$TER, $AEHR, Advantest
Along with the raw materials or substrates needed for AI:
$AXTI, $COPX, $SOI
And many others become the single, largest, hedge against widespread AI displacement.
Whoever owns the means of compute (bottlenecks, materials, datacenters):
Owns the future of AI.