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“I looked through our whole semis, cap equipment, hyperscaler portfolio, and I thought my instinct was gonna be okay, we've got to take profits here. I looked at the valuations, I looked at their growth rates. Unless you are really draconian or negative, and you think that somehow the AI world is going to roll over in '31 or '32. I think it's most attractive sector right now is where the bulk of our capital is invested.”
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SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust
Host predicts S&P 500 will reach 8,500 from current 7,600, citing melt-up conditions, strong earnings growth acceleration from 19% to low 20s (unprecedented in this bull market),...
“S and P is at 7,600 now. I think I wrote, in April that I could see us at eighty five hundred. I think it's gonna get there. I don't think it's gonna be too hard to get there.”
NVIDIA Corp.
NVIDIA is positioned to dominate the AI-native PC market with its RTX Spark Superchip (ARM CPU + NVIDIA GPU), which enables local AI compute and eliminates token costs....
“the big amounts though, I mean, look, there's a zillion things going on, but the one that rose to the top was NVIDIA announcing what they called the RTX Spark Superchip, which is a mouthful. Before the show, it was...”
AIMODELS
Jim and George highlight that AI model companies and enterprises implementing AI are losing significant money, with economics getting worse rather than better over time. The gap...
“The economics of those same technologies is still really challenging. Now it doesn't mean they're always gonna be challenging, but in a lot of ways, companies are losing more money today implementing this technology...”
NVIDIA Corp.
Semiconductors are clear winners in the AI trade as they enable the substitution of human labor with AI. ROI on AI infrastructure is driving massive capital allocation, with AI...
“By 2028, AI CapEx will be more than 1% of global GDP. I think that is a floor, and it will continue to go up. I mean, just look at what's happened to semiconductor stocks in the last even month. It's very clear to...”
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NVDA · rising
the big amounts though, I mean, look, there's a zillion things going on, but the one that rose to the top was NVIDIA announcing what they called the RTX Spark Superchip, which is a mouthful. Before the show, it was broadly called N1X. And that's sort of the what it is is just it's a ARM CPU loaded with NVIDIA parallel processing graphics basically into one system on a chip that has a whole new memory architecture relative to the historic way that PCs have been built. And the target for it are the PC makers.
rising
I do think the difference between this and the .com bust is that there are as real revenues and profits that are being generated by these companies. I mean, it's not like Anthropic doesn't produce a ton of revenues. We pay our huge Anthropic bill every month, and I'm sure that's not going down.
GOOGL · rising
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