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Tym's avatar

Super clearly written! This is saving me a lot of head scratching as to why OpenAI is so confident that it can build so many data centres. Thank you! I'll be using it as a reference point for any 'Is AI a bubble?' discussions

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Vasco Grilo's avatar

Thanks for the post, Greg!

"financed by revenue or date raised against revenue."

"debt", not "date"?

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Greg Burnham's avatar

Heavens, how did that happen. Will fix, thanks!

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Michael Spencer's avatar

I have one for you, it's called Anthropic.

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Café at 9 of the matin's avatar

Thanks Greg. Very interesting. It highlight to me how dependent they are on having a near monopoly/first move advantage. If a cheap Chinese competitor comes along, so goodbye to that market share (without price cuts).

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