1) Would be interesting to know how many of the analysts that are modeling GPU demand out 3-5 years are thinking about the impact of stuff like MCTS, other search techniques, conditional routing models, LoRA and a host of yet to be discovered innovations.
S&P 500 thoughts: The market is in a bad health and I think it is mostly going unnoticed. Pay attention.
The S&P 500 closed at the highest level in 9 months (Aug 2022), and the Nasdaq at a 52 week highs. This headline reads like a bull market, but I'm not so certain it is.
Market breadth remains atrocious. More stocks are making new lows than new highs. This highly concentrated rally is uncharacteristic of rallies that end bear markets. Those rallies exhibit improving breadth.
Sentiment is fading while prices are rising. In this bear market, sentiment peaks have preceded all declines.
The AI-anything vibe on Wall Street is a hallmark of euphoria. In hindsight I think this will be very obvious. (For the record, I think AI tools are fascinating).
Debt ceiling talk, rate hikes, and the Federal Reserve have tranquilized market participants. The news cycle prior was the entire coronavirus narrative & ongoing war story. Participants are numb. (I don't blame them)
I have actively shared that history shows that if the S&P 500 can advance 5% above the long term moving average (200d exponential) it is most probable that the bottom is in and a genuine market recovery is underway. This has yet to happen after multiple attempts, and I remain doubtful that it will considering the poor breadth, fading sentiment, and mostly numb participants.
If the S&P 500 can break the 5% long term moving average threshold (currently 4245) for a week I intend on reevaluating my market outlook. Until then, I remain comfortably bearish.
$SPY $SPX
One of the best interviews I read.
Former Global Head at $GOOGL /GCP who worked there for 7 years:
- $GOOGL's edge on AI
- Talks about CEO of GCP: T.K - 60% of the time on customer-facing calls
- Transition from SMB clients to enterprises
- Thinks $MSFT Azure will be num. 1
1) “God-like AI. A superintelligent computer that learns and develops autonomously, that understands its environment without the need for supervision and that can transform the world around it.”
“It’s possible from now onwards.”
Worth reading.
https://t.co/XkNuGiMz9p
1) The strong perf of megacap tech in Q1 (up 31% per GS) is strange to me.
They were all in their own monopolistic swim lanes for 10+ yrs.
Now they are all facing an existential threat/opp from Generative AI/LLMs.
Prefix tuning and adapters are the 2 out of the 3 most widely used parameter-efficient finetuning methods for large language models (LLMs).
If you look closely, the recent LLaMA-Adapter method that made big waves is actually a prefix tuning method, not an adapter method.
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Paper: HuggingGPT: Solving AI Tasks with ChatGPT and its Friends in Hugging Face from MSR.
https://t.co/wZXssQlrvZ
I came across this paper a few weeks back and I can't get it out of my head! It's such a powerful idea that shows us how things will evolve in the future.
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Ok this might be the coolest paper of our generation
Realistically simulated human agents, interacting together forming relationships, bonds, identities, studies through interviews…
So basically Westworld
https://t.co/tKO1xY80N4
Intel earnings thread /1
Datacenter and AI group did totally horribly...
Literally no operating profit.
The worst quarter in the last couple of decades of the history of datacenter.
$INTC $AMD $TSM $NVDA $MRVL
1) A thread of hypotheses, loosely held.
This recession will be nothing like 2002, when EPS for the companies in the S&P 500 tech GIC declined 80%. Tech EPS likely even more stable this time than in 08/09 when EPS declined only -3%ish. Function of shift to recurring revs.
Bond vigilantes are truly back.
The bond market already strong-armed the UK.
And if this ''pivot'' chatter is to be believed, the bond market will also strong-arm the Fed.
An important thread on bond markets and systemic risks ahead.
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