We're recapping last Friday's (July 24) mini market analysis.
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Last week, the big news was that a
Chinese AI company, Moonshot, announced
the release of its new LLM model called
Kimi K3. [music]
Moonshot claimed that Kimi K3 is as good
as any LLM out there, but for a fraction
of the cost. Prior to last week, we were
worried about AI capital intensity and
the lack of moats. Now, the possibility
of a price war looms closer. Google
Cloud revenue reached 24.8 billion, up
an incredible [snorts]
82%. [music]
So so far, not bad. On the bad side,
however, because of the massive AI CapEx
spending, free cash flow turned [music]
negative. It was negative 5.9
billion. [music] Moreover, Google upped
its 2026 AI CapEx spend from 190 billion
to 205 [music] billion. That's a lot of
billion, and the market is beginning to
lose patience with all this crazy
spending. The takeaway from this week's
earnings results is that the terms of
debate on AI [music] have truly shifted.
A year ago, it was all rah-rah for AI.
When companies raised their CapEx
budgets,
>> [music]
>> the market cheered. As the AI story has
somewhat matured, the story has shifted.
It's not all positive. The business has
become capital intensive. Investors
question whether there are any moats.
China AI players have produced great
models that are much cheaper and might
create a price war. Everyone is nervous,
and [music] that nervousness was on full
display this week.
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The video discusses the shifting sentiment in the AI industry, highlighting the introduction of Moonshot's cost-effective Kimi K3 model and concerns regarding massive capital expenditure by tech giants like Google.
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