Rise of the Gigafirm: What will be the next trillion-dollar tech company? #FIIPRIORITY
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uh so first we want to thank fi and our
our friends in the Kingdom of s for
inviting us here to speak with all of
you thank you very much Gavin and I are
here together because we collaborate
very closely on arti intelligence
Investments because we share the same
thesis uh we have our relationship goes
back more than a decade um started with
uh with Tesla has become very close over
time and I'm going to ask Gavin to start
with our thesis Gavin you tell people
what we think here sure uh so wanted to
Echo all of Antonio's thoughts of
gratitude for towards fi and all of our
hosts for having us here
um I think we share the thesis that when
there is a fundamental platform shift
from the mini computer um to the PC and
the client server um to the mobile phone
to the cloud and now to AI the safest
and best way to invest at the beginning
of that fundamental platform shift is at
the infrastructure layer which I'm going
to talk about and I'll let you talk
about the verticalized apps that come L
later um and the infrastructure layer is
particularly important with AI
because a GPU which two years ago not
many people have heard of um I'm a gamer
so I had heard of it and I I was the
Nvidia analyst back in the year 2000 so
I've heard of it for a long time GPU is
about half the size of this iPhone it is
made from Sand um Taiwan Simi does
amazing things to that sand and sells it
to Nvidia for $7 to $800 that die Nvidia
then sells that for $50,000 companies
like Microsoft and
Amazon and Google um and that is the
probably the biggest markup in human
history significantly bigger than the
birken bag for instance and um selling
drugs yes like narcotics yes for nerds
narcotics for nerds is a great way to
describe it exactly um and if you think
of Jensen likes to call Data Centers AI
factories I think maybe an easier more
fasile analogy is to think of them as
restaurants and the GPU that
$50,000 uh chip half the size of an
iPhone is a star chef and it has gotten
50 times faster in the last four years
which is a big part of why we're living
through this AI
Revolution the problem is you know it's
it's got a convection oven you know all
sorts of things it's much faster all the
other ingredients in the restaurant all
the other parts in that um supply chain
have only gotten two or three times f
faster so the food needs to be delivered
the SF needs to prepare it um and
because the GPU has gotten so much
faster it is doing nothing most of the
time 70% of the time it's doing nothing
it's just drawing power so our kind of
shared core infrastructure level thesis
is we're investing in things that
increase the GPU utilization rate
because if you can take that GPU from uh
being utilized 30% of the time to 60% of
the time you've doubled the output of
that restaurant or that AI Factory and
this is particularly important for AI
because we've gotten used to a world
where compute and computation is
essentially free everybody in this room
is an investor has heard that software
has zero marginal cost and it has almost
no marginal cost to produce even in the
cloud this is not true of AI every time
you ask chat GPT or Gro a question a lot
of comput is happening and it's
extremely expensive um and the
bottleneck is about to shift from GPU
availability to power availability it it
is possible that we will face a global
power shortage in the next few years
because of ai's ever increasing demands
for power and a great way to deal with
that is right now that GPU
is consuming full power 100% of the time
doing nothing 70% of the time and if you
can drive the utilization up that's
going to be great and so we've have a
lot of shared investments in kind of
storage networking and memory
technologies that improve the
utilization rate of those gpus Tonio
maybe you want to talk about the other
part of our I mean Gavin's background
stemies has been super useful to us and
you know we have a long background our
intelligence States back Deep Mind out
I'm going to go quickly because we're
going to run out of time otherwise um so
our our thesis is inform what we do and
what we don't do so we are investing in
we call verticalized applications these
are applications that have uh very
definitive data modes and reinforcement
learning that either exist because the
software is being used in a way that
reinforces the the data or it's piece of
hard or robotics that reinforces that
learning as well we think that the only
valuable Assets in the entire stack are
going to ultimately that have margin
that can be uh that can create we call
it a data mode that creates large margin
going Downstream is uh the data and the
reinforcement learning those are the
most important parts the models will
basically be to zero and because the
models are free so to Gavin's point the
data center is a commodity energy you
know might be a shortage for a while but
is also a commodity uh the models are
free in that entire supply chain all we
really see from end to end that has real
value is going to be in the data mode
and reinforcement learning we're
investing companies in that space so
this is about $2 companies so Gavin so
people want to know what we think what
you think about training our company
I'll do a public since you're in the
public business why don't you to do a
couple of privates and and we can trade
back and forth sure um well based on the
framework you just outline outlined I do
think if you're a foundation model
company and you do not are not attached
to a major internet platform for
distribution and reinforcement learning
and you don't have proprietary data you
your value is going to ASM toote to zero
very quickly but if you're a foundation
model company attached to a giant
internet platform with proprietary data
I think you're going to be immensely
valuable there are only a few of these
um there's Google um but it's already a
multi-trillion dollar company there's
Microsoft and open AI multi trillion
dollar Plus 90 billion and meta has
chosen to make their AI available um for
free open source the only one left is
xai and I submit to you with I think
it's a reasonably high confidence um
hypothesis that the sum of xai and X
will be worth more than a trillion
dollars because it has some of the most
valuable proprietary data in the world
for training these models and a lot of
distribution um to help them to help
them learn uh as far as a public company
I agree with you Gavin by the way um
public company I'm going at the risk of
being accused of bias and I have a large
position this in this in this company so
I'll say that up front I I think Tesla
will be the next public company you see
p $2 Enterprise value for AR
intelligence as an AI company not as an
EV company but as or a Mobility company
but as an AI company because uh people
underestimate the impact of FSD version
12 when you use this product you will
see it drives like a human and that will
blow you away and then at some point
you've seen videos of Optimus and you I
think people sort of they they under
they undervalue or don't believe quite
what's happening with Optimus when you
see the videos but I've actually seen
the robot itself operate it is
extraordinary and imagine um when you
have the most complex thing a human does
is drive a car so we have a model at at
Tesla knows how to drive a car and does
that well like a human you have a robot
that operates like a human uh you put
those things together you get a humanoid
Stout robot that then you can deploy
into a factory and get reinforcement
learning so that that lock in between
data data mode which is UN by the way
does unable data mode in humans driving
a car plus the lockin of a robot working
in a factory doing all the things we do
in a factory right what's the torque on
the bolt how do I not run the gabin
while I'm walking by him where's the
bathroom whatever robots do right the
those things um are going to inform our
training data by reinforcement learning
of the robot itself that will blow
people away and I think you'll see that
you know I don't know exactly when but
let's say in the next year or two uh
this will become more obvious and it
will accelerate the company people will
really see it as an AI company which
which is what it is that's my view Ai Ai
and Robotics yes and Robotics yes yeah
um great so the future of uh of AI what
what do you think happens next uh um
well I listened to this discussion this
morning about regulation with interest
um and I think this is a very very
dangerous topic um what we want as
humans is a world where there are many
many different AIS um we want a
multipolarity of AIS we don't want to
live in a world where there's one AI
superpower are two AI superpowers so I
do think in addition to those kind of
you know those three the grock uh xai
Google um open AI Microsoft it's great
that meta has open sourced their models
it's great that MRA exists it's great
that Google just open sourced a model
the most dangerous world for humans and
I would just say you know if you run any
survey of the top thousand people
working on AI and they call it P Doom
probability of Doom probability that AI
is an extinction level event for
Humanity they can consistently pull it
around it's a 15% chance so that's
pretty high now there's an 85% chance
it's it's amazing um but the most
important thing to lower the odds of the
15% and improve the odds of the 85%
being awesome are that we have many many
AIS which increases the odds that at
least some of them are friendly to us um
has humans um and I would say I do think
in terms of kind of the impact of AI to
build on some of Antonio's comments
about um Tesla's Optimus robot and
Robotics in general there has been a lot
of focus on the impact of AI on
knowledge work and white collar work I
think when we see AI um and llm dropped
into a very functional humanoid robot
there may be an immense impact on blueco
collar work manual labor um and this may
you know it may seem very funny to
historians that anyone was worried about
inflation in front of this kind of tidal
wave of kind of uh deflation I also
think um having embodied AI in a robot
may be very um important to them
progressing becoming sentient becoming
conscious um there there's a lot of
thought that it is hard for an
intelligence to become conscious without
being embodied but Antonio what are your
what are your thoughts I mean I I I
agree with you with h with a lower
probability set I hope on on extinction
level event um you know I had these red
socks now if you notice these are my
Star Trek socks okay because I believe
in a Star Trek future um as opposed to
DET Terminator future and I think we are
here to determine that that happens
events like this are very important
because we're having these dialogues
this morning you know Michael Dale
mentioned this which is the models we
build as humans will be imbued with the
values of their creators and you know I
started my career um wanting to be a
development Economist particularly in
Latin America and worked at Goldman
Sachs in that area and it's um the
questions about global South and Global
North that we have here at F5 I think
are very important this is a period of
time where this particular technology
can enable the rest of us the people
that are live in the global South to
equalize I think their living standard
in a way that doesn't destroy the planet
because productivity will fundamentally
change um it also is a time when llms
that are the powerful models you're
talking about uh they will be created in
individual languages so every country
represented here whether it's Arabic um
if you're speaking Spanish whatever
language we're in Miami I'll say Spanish
but Spanish and Arabic the two languages
there uh the the models we train in that
in those languages with respect for your
cultures respect for for the local
cultures local values and if those
models are rational they should
cooperate like in Star Trek they should
actually cooperate if they cooperate and
they respect local cultures local
languages then I think we end up in a
Star Trek future we end in a place where
humans are better better off as a group
in total and the the parts of the world
been left behind they can access
technology it's very easy these miles
are basically free and you can train
them in local languages right we Falcon
and Arabic is a good example of this um
this is why I think it's mostly going to
be benign I think people are overvaluing
the possibility of a very negative
future and Gavin is right the key to a
positive future is multimodel I call
multipolarity so that each country and
each individual group can train their
models in their ways with their values
to protect them and also to cooperate
other models that maybe trans with other
values and if they're told to cooperate
the machines will cooperate that's what
they told to do and you know the
ultimate multipolarity is where each
human has its own AI that is you know
trained on our own personality on our
own values and is definitionally
friendly to us and I do
think AI may eventually be mediated
through brain computer interfaces um and
we may co-evolve rather than having kind
of you know AI embodied in robots is
probably a first step um and and that's
a good step I think on balance for the
world but I think a future where we
co-evolve as a species with AIS and we
all have our own personal individual AI
that would be an awesome future and that
would that would that would be the
ultimate Star Trek future we're going
for Star Trek we're going for Star Tre
all right gin thank you thanks thanks
guys thanks thanks everybody thanks
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This video features a conversation about artificial intelligence, focusing on the investment thesis regarding AI infrastructure and applications. The speakers discuss the critical role of GPUs and the importance of increasing their utilization rate. They also explore the future of AI, touching upon potential risks, the necessity of multipolarity in AI development to align with diverse human values, and the potential for a positive, collaborative future similar to 'Star Trek'.
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