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One month ago, the market was panicking

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over the Iran war and broken [music]

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supply chains. Today, it's verging on

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extreme greed. But below all the

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headlines, big institutions are quietly

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building cash because they see a massive

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opportunity ahead. My name [music] is

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Alex and I spent eight years as an

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electrical engineer and AI researcher at

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MIT, which helped me find stocks like

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Nvidia, Micron, Vertiv, and Coreweave

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long before the rest of the market.

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[music] In this video, I'm going to show

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you the major market stories already

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changing which stocks are about to win

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big. And I'll show you a huge mistake

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that I made along the way. Your time is

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valuable, so let's get right into it.

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The CNN Fear and Greed Index has been

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stuck near extreme greed for the last

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three weeks, the longest stretch so far

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this year. And it's easy to understand

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why everyone's so greedy, at least on

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the surface. During earnings, the

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biggest tech companies on Earth

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announced over $700 billion in AI

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infrastructure spending this year alone.

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That's up 77% from last year, even with

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their supply chains at a standstill. But

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here's the signal that made me make this

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video. Just last week at Berkshire

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Hathaway's annual meeting, Warren

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Buffett said the stock market is in a

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mood for gambling, calling this

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investing environment like going to a

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church with a casino attached. Berkshire

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Hathaway, under their new CEO Greg Abel,

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is currently sitting on almost $400

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billion in cash. That's a whopping 32%

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of their entire portfolio. That's an

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all-time record for Warren Buffett's

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firm. That means they're holding more

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cash than they did at the start of the

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dot-com bubble, the global financial

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crisis, and the pandemic. Warren Buffett

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coined the phrase be fearful when others

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are greedy and greedy when others are

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fearful. And that's exactly what he's

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doing right now. The question isn't why,

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that part is obvious. War, broken supply

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chains, and rising costs. The real

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question is where that money goes when

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he buys back in and when other massive

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institutions follow his lead. Here's

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where I think the biggest opportunities

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in the market are right now.

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Accountability is important to me, so

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let's talk about my big mistake, because

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I owe you a real apology here. Let's

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talk about CPUs. Traditional AI data

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centers run roughly one CPU for every

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eight GPUs. The GPUs do the heavy math,

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and the CPUs keep the traffic moving.

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But a Jentick AI flips the script. When

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a coding agent runs for 30 minutes

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straight, it's making tons of separate

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tool calls. It's spawning hundreds of

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sub agents, and its memory usage can 10x

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over the course of a session. None of

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that orchestration, the tools, the sub

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agents, and the context management runs

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on GPUs. It all runs on CPUs. Jensen

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Huang showed specific numbers at GTC

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2026. 12,000 GPUs running at scale need

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400,000 CPU cores running next to them.

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That sounds like a 33 to 1 CPU to GPU

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ratio, which is one reason why I think

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stocks like AMD and Intel are running so

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hot right now. But let me spend 30

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seconds walking you through the real

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math, and not the hype, and I'll show

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you the mistake that made me miss a lot

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of easy money. There are 72 Rubin GPUs

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per rack. So 12,000 GPUs would need

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about 167 racks. Each Vera rack has 256

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CPUs, and each CPU has 88 cores. So one

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rack of Vera CPUs has almost 23,000

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cores. That means for every 167 GPU

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racks, you actually only need 18 CPU

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racks, or a ratio of 9 to 1 GPU to CPU

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racks, not the other way around. In chip

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terms, a data center wants 4600 Vera

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CPUs for every 1200 Rubin GPUs, or one

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CPU for every 2.6 GPUs. Now, here was my

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mistake and why I owe you an apology. In

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my opinion, investors should care about

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the racks. After all, data centers are

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built and priced in terms of racks. And

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like I just showed you, a Gentex AI

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needs nine times more GPU racks than CPU

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racks. But, I didn't think about it in

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terms of chips. And AI data centers only

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need three times more GPUs than CPUs if

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you count by chips instead of racks.

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Said another way, there are roughly

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three times more CPUs in AI data centers

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than I realized. That's a big difference

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and I really should have caught it

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sooner. I didn't cover AMD enough and I

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really should have. I didn't cover Intel

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enough and I really should have. I

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didn't listen to your feedback in the

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comments and I really should have. I

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apologize, full stop. So, let me put my

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ego aside and cover AMD and Intel now.

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AMD just reported earnings last week.

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Revenues came in at $10.3 billion for

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the quarter, which is up 38% year over

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year. Data center revenue came in at

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$5.8 billion,

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which grew by a much higher 57%. Most of

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that revenue comes from data center

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CPUs, not GPUs. And their CPU sales are

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growing a lot faster. But, like I just

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said, those CPUs are much more important

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in AI data centers than I realized. Meta

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Platforms recently committed to 6

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gigawatts of AMD's Instinct GPUs with 1

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gigawatt for fully customized MI450s

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built exclusively for Meta's workloads.

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That's roughly the size of all the AI

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compute on Earth combined outside of

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Microsoft, Amazon, and Google. And Meta

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just committed all of that to AMD. This

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is a huge win for AMD, but it comes at a

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huge cost that investors need to know

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about. In order to make it happen, AMD

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gave Meta a warrant, the right to buy

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roughly 10% of the entire company at one

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penny per share. Now, Meta only gets

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those shares if AMD stock hits $600,

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which would be around a trillion-dollar

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valuation. But today, AMD already trades

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over $450.

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So, it's already 75% of the way there.

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That means Meta gets almost a hundred

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billion dollars in AMD stock essentially

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for nothing. And AMD shareholders will

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get diluted by 10%. But wait, they

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actually get diluted by 20% because AMD

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has the same deal with OpenAI. So, the

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moment AMD stock touches $600 per share,

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you take 20% off the top, and it's

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actually only worth $480,

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just $30 more than its current price.

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That's the real cost of competing in

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Nvidia's market. And there's something

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for supporting the channel. All right,

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on their latest earnings call, Lisa Su

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said that the data center CPU market

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will nearly triple in size by 2030.

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That's a compound annual growth rate of

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35% or roughly three times faster than

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the S&P 500. So, even with that 20%

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dilution coming up, AMD's future is

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looking pretty bright. But, while AMD

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designs CPUs, Intel actually builds

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them. For years, everyone said the same

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thing about Intel, including me. Intel

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needed a huge customer to prove that

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they could still build chips and no big

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company would take that risk. Until

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then, Intel's foundry was a gamble, not

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a business to invest in. But, everything

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changed in April when Intel landed three

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huge customers back-to-back-to-back.

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First, Intel joined Terafab, a $25

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billion chip factory being built in

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Austin with Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI using

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Intel's most advanced manufacturing

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technology. For the first time, Intel

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has a flagship customer lined up before

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the factory was even finished. Then,

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Intel signed a multi-year deal with

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Google to build custom chips for their

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internal cloud infrastructure. And just

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a few days ago, Bloomberg reported that

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Apple is in early talks with Intel and

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Samsung about manufacturing their chips

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in the US. That way, they can reduce the

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risks of all their chips being made at

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TSMC in Taiwan. If you didn't know,

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Apple used Intel's chips in every Mac

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from 2006 to 2020 when they switched

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over to their own M1 chips made by TSMC

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and Intel lost their biggest customer.

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So, Apple coming back would be one of

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the biggest comebacks in market history.

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This is not a done deal, but it is the

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first serious signal that Apple is

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looking at chipmakers beyond TSMC for

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the first time in over a decade. Intel

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reported earnings a few weeks ago. Their

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revenue came in at $13.6 billion,

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which is up 7% year-over-year. And

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earnings per share came in at 29 cents,

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up from 13 cents last year. Those

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numbers aren't too crazy, but the

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market's reaction sure was. Intel stock

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jumped 24% the next day, marking their

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single best day since the dot-com era.

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Two years ago, I said that Intel was a

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value trap. Today, they're the only

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American-owned and operated factory that

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can build some of the world's most

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advanced chips, and they might finally

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have the customers to prove it. But, the

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battleground for AI CPUs just got a lot

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bigger. For the last 35 years, ARM was

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the arms dealer that never picked a

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side. They sold blueprints to Nvidia and

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AMD, Apple and Qualcomm, and they

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collected royalties while everyone else

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fought the actual chip war. That is,

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until now. A few weeks ago, ARM launched

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the AGI CPU, the first chip they've ever

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designed and sold themselves in the

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history of the company. And right off

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the bat, the specs are pretty serious.

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ARM's AGI CPU has up to 136 cores per

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chip and 60 chips per rack. So, let's do

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the same math we just did a few minutes

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ago and compare it to Nvidia. Remember,

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according to Jensen, it takes around

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400,000 CPU cores to support 12,000

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Rubin GPUs. 136 cores per ARM chip * 60

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chips per rack is just under 8,200 cores

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per rack. So, it would take around 49

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racks to support those GPUs compared to

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just 18 racks of Nvidia Vera CPUs. That

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sounds way worse, but let me fix the

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mistake I just showed you I kept making

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instead of falling into the same trap.

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If we look at the actual chip counts

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instead of just the racks, it takes

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4,600 Vera CPUs to support those 12,000

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Rubin GPUs. That's one CPU for every 2.6

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GPUs, just like I showed you before.

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But, you only need 3,000 ARM AGI CPUs to

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support that same amount. That's one CPU

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for every four GPUs, or around 54%

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better performance than Nvidia's Vera.

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Said another way, arm's new CPU is

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actually much more powerful than

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Nvidia's. So much so that you need

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almost 40% fewer to run the same data

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centers. And that's just versus Nvidia.

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It has roughly double the performance

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per watt versus Intel and AMD. And arm

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says it can save around $10 billion in

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construction costs per gigawatt of data

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center compute. So let's bring

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everything full circle. Meta just

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committed to building 6 gigawatts in

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data center infrastructure using AMD's

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chips. If they used arm's AGI CPUs

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instead, they would have saved $60

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billion on this project alone, which is

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pretty close to what AMD paid Meta to

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win that deal in the first place. And

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I'm not the only one who caught that

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math. Meta did, too. That's why they're

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arm's first and flagship customer for

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the AGI CPU. And early demand for this

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chip is through the roof. As soon as arm

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started taking orders, their demand

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doubled in the first six weeks. And on

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their earnings call just a few days ago,

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arm's CFO said they expect to sell over

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a billion dollars worth of these CPUs in

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the first year alone, and hit $15

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billion in annual chip revenue by 2031.

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The entire company makes less than $5

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billion a year today. So arm is

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expecting this chip to quadruple their

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annual revenue over the next five years.

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So arm didn't just enter the CPU

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battleground. They dropped a tactical

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nuke on it. And the AGI CPU is only one

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part of their story. Arm's royalties

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from data center chip designs more than

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doubled year over year, beating every

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estimate. And these royalties have

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insane 95% gross margins, much higher

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than even the best software companies,

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let alone hardware firms. The reason the

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stock dropped 10% after their earnings

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goes back to what I said at the start of

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this video. Supply chain issues are

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stopping them from growing even faster.

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Arm's problem isn't that nobody wants

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their chip, it's that they can't build

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those chips fast enough and the smart

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money knows it. But if you think demand

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for AI infrastructure is insane right

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now, there's one more bombshell I need

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to walk you through. Now, to be clear,

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what I'm about to show you isn't

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verified, so it could be nothing or it

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could change everything. And if you

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found this video valuable, consider

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hitting the like button and subscribing

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to the channel. It really does help and

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it tells me to make more content like

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this. All right, let's talk about what

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could be the single biggest breakthrough

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in AI efficiency since the original

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Transformer paper. Last week, a Miami

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startup called Subquadratic announced a

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new model called SubQ 1M preview. The

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research version of this model has a 12

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million token context window, which is

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up to 12 times bigger than most frontier

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models today. The version they plan to

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actually ship matches everyone else at 1

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million tokens, but it claims to be over

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300 times cheaper to run. Said another

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way, if you spent $2,500 doing work on

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Claude, you could do that same work on

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SubQ's model for the price of a cup of

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coffee. They raised $29 million in seed

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funding and launched at a $500 million

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valuation. But here's what makes this

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announcement pretty hard to judge. It

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didn't come with a peer-reviewed paper,

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it didn't come with a public model to

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test, and it didn't come with any

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benchmarks that anyone outside the

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company could reliably reproduce. So,

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I'm watching what happens next. If

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Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google publish

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their own work on subquadratic attention

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in response, that means these claims are

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being taken seriously. But if there's

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crickets, this is probably just smoke

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and mirrors. But either way, investors

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need to understand what happens next if

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this turns out to be real or there's

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another breakthrough just like it. When

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Dwave came out, AI got dramatically

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cheaper overnight, but instead of demand

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falling, it exploded because every

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dollar of compute went a lot further.

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When the cost of something drops, you

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get much more bang for your buck. So,

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overall demand goes way up. Cheaper

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smartphones don't mean people use less

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data. It means more people, more apps,

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and more content being consumed every

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single day. And more data centers had to

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be built to handle it. So, if sub Q

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turns out to be real, every piece of the

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AI revolution becomes even more

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valuable, including all the CPUs I made

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the mistake of ignoring before this

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video. A mistake I won't make again. At

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the start of this video, I pointed out

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that CNN's Fear and Greed Index has been

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close to extreme greed for the last 3

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weeks, the longest stretch so far this

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year. But, Warren Buffett is sitting on

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record levels of cash. Warren Buffett

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coined the phrase "Be fearful when

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others are greedy and greedy when others

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are fearful." And that's exactly what

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he's doing right now. The question isn't

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why. We already know that. War, supply

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chains, and rising costs. The question

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is where that money goes when big

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institutions buy back in. And now, you

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know that, too. And if you want to see

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what else I'm investing in, check out

16:46

this video next. Either way, thanks for

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watching and until next time, this is

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ticker symbol U. My name is Alex,

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reminding you that the best investment

16:54

you can make

16:56

is in you.

Interactive Summary

This video, presented by Alex, examines the current AI investment landscape against a backdrop of 'extreme greed' in the market, contrasting this with Warren Buffett's record-breaking cash reserves. Alex highlights his past mistakes in underestimating the demand for CPUs relative to GPUs in AI data centers, specifically for companies like AMD and Intel. He also explores the potential industry-shifting impact of ARM's new AGI CPU and touches on the speculative but potentially disruptive 'subquadratic' AI efficiency breakthrough.

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