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Bullish 2026-08-06
SoundHound CEO; enterprise agent AI a $1T market by 2030.
just the beginning. And I think the market for enterprise agent AI is going to be $1 trillion by 2030. And we have everything we need to
Bullish 2026-08-02
Predicts Anthropic ends 2026 above 100B ARR growing 10x; the duopoly thesis. EVENT: will, year-end 2026.
they are creating the biggest, most powerful monopoly of all time. Again, they're going to end the year with over 100 billion of ARR growing 10x year over year.
David Sacks · Craft Ventures / All-In Podcast · All-In Podcast ↗
Bearish 2026-08-02
Self-declared prediction: named eight/nine-figure customers defect to open-source models. EVENT: will.
And I think, and I'll make this prediction here, that you're going to see some of the major customers of Anthropic and major customers of OpenAI. I'm talking about the eight and nine figure customers, people spending 50 million, 100 million a year. They're leaving. They're going to be leaving because they don't trust those companies to not steal the application layer and to compete with them. 11 Labs, Figma, lovable. They're all going to leave and they're all going to take Kimmy.
Jason Calacanis · Launch / All-In Podcast · All-In Podcast ↗
Neutral hedged · 2026-08-02
Frames the fork: duopoly holds means 5-10T each; open-source shift or token efficiency questions the premium.
if the answer is that it is a duopoly, then there is no risk to the revenue five to 10 years from now. These things are five to 10 trillion dollar companies each. But if you are right, or if there are harnesses that cut the token consumption because you stop wasting tokens to get to the same output, then it's a little bit more of a question mark.
Bullish 2026-08-02
Predicts courts bless AI training as fair use within a couple of years. EVENT: will.
I do think fundamentally that the conversion of that data into what I would call knowledge and ultimately the ability to create new outcomes from that knowledge that are not copyrighted, that are not copies of the original material, I do think is going to end up being the right fair use policy and it's going to be the right read on fair use.
David Friedberg · Ohalo; All-In Podcast · All-In Podcast ↗
Bearish leaning · 2026-08-02
The frontier edge shrinks to a smaller set of problems; cheap older models suffice for nearly everything.
I think we're going to find that using a cheap model that is six months old, one month year old, maybe even two years old, will have way, way more enough power for anything that we need in our day to day lives. In some sense, the cutting edge is going to be about solving a smaller and smaller set of problems while the follow-on stuff will be way more than capable enough for almost everything else.
Bearish 2026-08-02
Predicts no multilateral AI regulatory framework materializes. EVENT: wont.
I just don't think there's going to be a multilateral approach. What we could hope for is a little bit of convergence, where the different countries are talking to each other, and I think it's really important that the United States and China are talking to each other about this topic.
Bullish 2026-08-02
Claims clients get AI returns, on the eve of Palantir's Aug 3 earnings.
We're seeing the companies that we work with are getting a return. And my kind of clarion call to the entire industry is that we all need to be focused on turning these tokens into economic value.
Shyam Sankar · Palantir CTO · Fox Business ↗
Bearish 2026-08-01
citing UBS; opening on an anthropic = OpenAI and Anthropic garble
“27% of Google Cloud's revenue this year will be opening on an anthropic increasing to over 48% next year”
Ed Zitron · Where's Your Ed At; Better Offline host · Bloomberg ↗
Nasdaq since this was said: +2.8% · 25,374 → 26,082 · as of 2026-09-10
Bearish 2026-08-01
capex builds infrastructure for two unprofitable companies, not diverse demand
“everyone is being sold what I consider kind of a lie. It's honestly kind of a scandal”
Ed Zitron · Where's Your Ed At; Better Offline host · Bloomberg ↗
Nasdaq since this was said: +2.8% · 25,374 → 26,082 · as of 2026-09-10
Bearish 2026-08-01
his own reporting; without it 8 percent growth, barely beating inflation
“69% of the year over year growth of Microsoft intelligent cloud segment was actually from open AI”
Ed Zitron · Where's Your Ed At; Better Offline host · Bloomberg ↗
Nasdaq since this was said: +2.8% · 25,374 → 26,082 · as of 2026-09-10
Bearish leaning · 2026-08-01
NYT-reported IPO delay to 2027 as a potential unwind catalyst
“So with open AI's IPO, I think that could be one of the flash points”
Ed Zitron · Where's Your Ed At; Better Offline host · Bloomberg ↗
Nasdaq since this was said: +2.8% · 25,374 → 26,082 · as of 2026-09-10
Bearish 2026-08-01
his overbuild math applied to Sightline Climate's ~190GW capacity figure (Feb), PUE 1.3
“$1.6 trillion of annual revenue needed to satiate those data centers. Having two customers is not going to do that”
Ed Zitron · Where's Your Ed At; Better Offline host · Bloomberg ↗
Nasdaq since this was said: +2.8% · 25,374 → 26,082 · as of 2026-09-10
Bearish 2026-08-01
explicit disbelief OpenAI and Anthropic reach 400B annual spend
“they're only going to spend $400 billion a year. And that's if they get that far, which I don't believe they will”
Ed Zitron · Where's Your Ed At; Better Offline host · Bloomberg ↗
Nasdaq since this was said: +2.8% · 25,374 → 26,082 · as of 2026-09-10
Bearish 2026-08-01
OpenAI audited financials he reported with the FT
“They lost $ 20.9 billion in 2025, and things are only getting worse”
Ed Zitron · Where's Your Ed At; Better Offline host · Bloomberg ↗
Nasdaq since this was said: +2.8% · 25,374 → 26,082 · as of 2026-09-10
Bullish 2026-08-01
buying the dip in AI hardware plus defensives
“we are looking at a handful of the hyperscalers, hardware names, and some semiconductor names that have come down”
Lisa Shalett · Morgan Stanley Wealth Management · Fox Business ↗
Nasdaq since this was said: +2.8% · 25,374 → 26,082 · as of 2026-09-10
Bullish 2026-07-31
after hyperscaler earnings; only question is how fast monetization spreads
“this will be the most disruptive tech boom of our time”
Maribel Lopez · Lopez Research · Bloomberg ↗
Nasdaq since this was said: +2.8% · 25,374 → 26,082 · as of 2026-09-10
Bearish hedged · 2026-07-31
her framing of circular-economy risk in AI vendor financing
“If Nvidia says says they're selling a lot of chips, but they're really vendor financing the chips to open A.I., did they really make any money”
Maribel Lopez · Lopez Research · Bloomberg ↗
Nasdaq since this was said: +2.8% · 25,374 → 26,082 · as of 2026-09-10
Bullish 2026-07-31
even 220 billion leaves Amazon capacity-short through 2027
“we will still not have enough capacity to meet all the demand we have in 2026. And I believe this dynamic will also be true in 2027”
Nasdaq since this was said: +2.8% · 25,374 → 26,082 · as of 2026-09-10
Bullish leaning · 2026-07-31
that = an AI bubble burst dislodging the stable labor market
“I don't think there's any reason to expect that to happen anytime soon”
Nasdaq since this was said: +2.8% · 25,374 → 26,082 · as of 2026-09-10
Neutral 2026-07-31
levered ETF and call-skew excess cleaned up in the flush
“some people really got, for lack of a better word, carried out this week”
Nasdaq since this was said: +2.8% · 25,374 → 26,082 · as of 2026-09-10
Bullish leaning · 2026-07-31
still overweight tech, likes it more post-selloff
“we probably like it a little bit more now based on valuation and the cleanup of the speculative activity”
Nasdaq since this was said: +2.8% · 25,374 → 26,082 · as of 2026-09-10
Bearish 2026-07-31
the Situational Awareness blowup: 45B to 10B on margin calls
“a lot of AI bets, highly concentrated, highly levered. That's not a good mix.”
Hema Parmar · Bloomberg News · Bloomberg ↗
Nasdaq since this was said: +2.8% · 25,374 → 26,082 · as of 2026-09-10
Bullish 2026-07-31
the AI spend narrative fully intact after Mag 7 week
“Nothing's changed. Spending go up, cloud growth go up.”
Ed Ludlow · Bloomberg Television · Bloomberg ↗
Nasdaq since this was said: +2.8% · 25,374 → 26,082 · as of 2026-09-10
Bullish 2026-07-30
his no-bubble case vs the dot-com era
“the AI companies are actually making money”
Kevin Hassett · National Economic Council · Bloomberg Television ↗
Bearish leaning · 2026-07-30
AI earnings season a mixed bag; repricing hinges on monetization
“it does seem like expectations and reality are a little bit mismatched right now”
Winnie Cisar · CreditSights · Bloomberg ↗
Nasdaq since this was said: +3.8% · 25,122 → 26,082 · as of 2026-09-10
Bearish 2026-07-30
blames the Aschenbrenner fund collapse on leverage, not the AI trade
“Leopold made the same mistake investors in South Korea made. Too much leverage, too much leverage.”
Charles Payne · Fox Business · Fox Business ↗
Nasdaq since this was said: +3.8% · 25,122 → 26,082 · as of 2026-09-10
Bullish 2026-07-30
pushes back on framing the fund unwind as an AI-thesis failure
“this is not an indictment on AI. Some people misreporting.”
Charles Payne · Fox Business · Fox Business ↗
Nasdaq since this was said: +3.8% · 25,122 → 26,082 · as of 2026-09-10
Bullish leaning · 2026-07-30
casts the forced-liquidation selloff as a buying opportunity
“Yeah, he gave us a great entry point today for the Buy On Dips crowd.”
Charles Payne · Fox Business · Fox Business ↗
Nasdaq since this was said: +3.8% · 25,122 → 26,082 · as of 2026-09-10
Neutral hedged · 2026-07-30
on the AI/semis gut check and reset
“maybe we went from overbelief to disbelief in the course of one month”
Nasdaq since this was said: +3.8% · 25,122 → 26,082 · as of 2026-09-10
Bearish 2026-07-30
on AI names whose valuations extrapolate endless capex-fed growth
“at some point when CapEx does slow down and it will. Those companies may struggle”
Kevin Caron · Washington Crossing Advisors · BNN Bloomberg ↗
Nasdaq since this was said: +3.8% · 25,122 → 26,082 · as of 2026-09-10
Bearish leaning · 2026-07-30
post-Big Tech earnings; compares to the early-2000s reckoning
“we're probably in for a period of sorting out, which could take years for it to play out eventually”
Kevin Caron · Washington Crossing Advisors · BNN Bloomberg ↗
Nasdaq since this was said: +3.8% · 25,122 → 26,082 · as of 2026-09-10
Bearish leaning · 2026-07-29
the stakes as he frames them on Prof G
“This AI thing better work out, because if it doesn't work out, your portfolio will be in trouble”
Torsten Slok · Apollo Global · Prof G Markets ↗
Neutral 2026-07-29
hyperscaler earnings vs the Fed this week
“it's actually become more important than the FOMC meeting”
Torsten Slok · Apollo Global · Prof G Markets ↗
Bearish 2026-07-29
AI reinvestment treadmill, MSFT position disclosed
“path to profitability is starting to become a big question mark”
Chad Morganlander · Washington Crossing Advisors · BNN Bloomberg ↗
Bearish 2026-07-29
models depreciate without constant reinvestment
“It's similar to having milk in your refrigerator. It starts to go bad really fast”
Chad Morganlander · Washington Crossing Advisors · BNN Bloomberg ↗
Bearish leaning · 2026-07-27
what happens to the market if AI does not succeed. conditional answer to a host hypothetical; STRENGTH corrected firm->leaning; he explicitly would NOT short this market
“I think we have a big correction”
Steve Eisman · Investor; The Real Eisman Playbook host · CNBC ↗
Bullish 2026-07-27
despite the durability doubts. importance claim; the direction lives in his adjacent still-in-very-good-shape line
“the AI trade remains still the most important story”
Tom Lee · Fundstrat Global Advisors · CNBC ↗
Nasdaq since this was said: +4.6% · 24,932 → 26,082 · as of 2026-09-10
Bullish 2026-07-24
AI TAM call. company self-interested TAM at her own event; distinct from the $1.4T accelerator subset
“$2 trillion market opportunity for us as we think about from now through 2030”
Bullish 2026-07-24
accelerator market size
“it's going to reach $1.4 trillion by the time we get to 2030”

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