[@DwarkeshPatel] Why smarter AI models could drive up compute prices 10x
Link: https://youtu.be/oZBGAuANX6I
Duration: 11 min
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AI lab economics are diverging sharply: revenue at companies like Anthropic is 10x'ing year-over-year (from $9B last year to a projected $100-150B this year) while lab compute only 3x's, forcing the gap to be filled by higher margins, higher compute prices, or a shift toward inference. Compute growth itself decomposes into roughly 1.4x from Moore's Law, 1.2x from new fabs (bottlenecked by ASML EUV through 2030), and 1.8x from AI absorbing leading-edge wafer allocation from smartphones and PCs. Market signals confirm tightening: spot prices are 40%+ above the February trough, Anthropic's inference margins reportedly jumped from 40% to 80%, and Google is paying $900M a month to rent 110,000 GPUs from SpaceX at 2x spot.
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