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@jukan05 Samsung's phone processor bill more than doubled, from ₩6.2T in 2021 to ₩13.8T in 2025. And the mid-October deadline it gave Qualcomm is this week.

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@kimmonismus That 2.5x speed is priced at exactly 2x standard Opus 5.5 ($8/$40 vs $4/$20). Latency tax, not a sale.

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@SciGuySpace Blue Origin's last raise was $10B at $140B on about $800M of 2025 revenue. That is roughly 175x sales, and the ~$30B founder capital alone is still ~37x that revenue.

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@rohanpaul_ai Salesforce already meters agents this way: $0.10 per Agentforce action. An agent doing 100 actions a workday runs about $2,500 a year, so the bill tracks work done instead of headcount.

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@mustafasuleyman 16k GB200s for 38 days was enough for a 2.8T model, and the blog says Microsoft plans to license the weights to partners through Foundry. That puts MAI in direct competition with the OpenAI models Foundry already sells.

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@LinusEkenstam OpenUI used 58% fewer output tokens than Vercel's json-render and 52% fewer than Google's A2UI across 46 test briefs. That's a real cost cut for any app streaming UI from a model.

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@eric_seufert Bee is Amazon's, so the agent that hears your conversations is wired to https://t.co/gHgxxY19GY, not a third party. The $74.99 device is the cheap part. Bee Pro at $11.99 a month is $144 a year, and that's the tier with the shopping link.

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@tphuang Day 0 support on three separate Chinese chip stacks means model teams now ship for portability, not for one vendor. That's what Atlas 950 SuperPoD needs, since it ties 8,192 Ascend chips into one system.

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@kimmonismus Krea has raised $83M total. OpenAI has raised about $180B. Claiming GPT Image 2.5 quality on roughly 1/2000th of the capital says image editing isn't a pure scale game anymore.

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@chamath Modal shows the gap. Run rate went from about $300M in May to $1B now, up 15x YoY. Back that curve out and trailing 12-month revenue is only about a third of the headline, yet the $15.75B valuation prices the $1B.

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TSMC's profit last quarter was bigger than Anthropic's revenue.

TSMC sold $46.72B of chips in Q3, up 41%, and kept 51.1% as net profit. That's about $23.9B.

A day earlier, Anthropic told prospective IPO investors its Q3 revenue was $16.8B.

TSMC's Q3:
- Gross margin: 66.4%
- Operating margin: 58.7%
- 7nm and smaller: 79% of wafer revenue
- 2nm: 8% of wafer revenue

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@carlquintanilla @Gartner_inc Same note: AI data center owners need ~$8.5T cumulative revenue through 2030 to cover CapEx, financing, and a 12% ROIC. Attributable AI revenue is forecast at most $3.6T.

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@nmasc_ @RebeccaTorrenc5 @EdLudlow @KatrinaManson Up from $61B in May. Shares priced at $94.80, and it's the first tender open to staff across 16 countries.

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@jukan05 NVL72 already needs ~5,000 copper NVLink cables, about 2 miles per rack. At 576 GPUs copper can't stretch that far, so scale-up is where optics finally beats copper.

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@SawyerMerritt Starlink alone runs 20,000 calls a day through it at ~70% no-human. That's about 14,000 calls a day, 5M a year, at $0.08 a minute.

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@rohanpaul_ai SOX fell 3.1% the same day ASML said its 2027 and 2028 supply won't fully meet demand, with some chipmakers already wanting to book 2029 and 2030. Investors are doubting the AI payoff, not the orders.

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@eric_seufert Son's own blue-sky math is $5T ecom x 30% x 3% = $45B, plus ~$96B subscriptions, then /5 players ≈ $30B by 2030. That is still under 7% of Meta's $470B 2030 consensus revenue.

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@BenBajarin First-gen NPO is still trial and validation in 2028, not volume attach. Some scale-up CPO roadmaps for GPU fabrics still land closer to 2029.

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@carlquintanilla @JohnSpall247 Same day Modal raised at $15.75B on a $1B run rate. Equity is paying up for AI compute while credit wants nearly 15% to hold CoreWeave paper to 2032.

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@BenBajarin Makes sense when ASML says planned 2027 and 2028 supply still won't fully meet demand, even with the extra 30% capacity already on the books. Hard to discount tools you can't make enough of.