01 / prediction
I don’t think it’ll happen the year after, because the world is capital constrained.
“I don’t think it’ll happen the year after, because the world is capital constrained.”
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- Dylan Patel
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
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01 / prediction
“I don’t think it’ll happen the year after, because the world is capital constrained.”
02 / prediction
“Next year, a big new entrant is, for example, SpaceX, which is building a ton of compute. They’re actively going to lease quite a bit of it to Anthropic and OpenAI, most likely, because they’re the ones who have the marginal capability to pay the highest price.”
03 / prediction
“Anthropic not releasing what their safety assessment says is Model 2, which is widely believed to be the next version of Mythos. They’re clearly not releasing their best models, in which case their revenue per megawatt stalls or can even start to decline again because other models are competitive again.”
04 / prediction
“Just because someone has raised prices doesn’t mean the entire supply chain rebalances immediately.”
05 / prediction
“In 2024, we were banging on the drums that reasoning means long context, which means a large KV cache, which means you need a lot of memory demand.”
06 / prediction
“In some cases, the argument people are making is if you didn’t sign a long-term deal, because every two years NVIDIA is tripling or quadrupling the performance while only 2X-ing or 50% increasing the price… Then the price of an H100… Sure maybe the value in the market was $2 at 35% gross margins in 2024, but in 2026, when Blackwell is in super high volume and deploying millions a year, you’re actually now worth $1/hour.”
07 / prediction
“I think space data centers will eventually be a 10X gain as Earth’s resources get more and more contentious, but that’s not this decade.”
08 / prediction
“Even if you halve smartphone volumes, because of the shape of the halving, the low end gets cut by more than half, while the high end gets cut by less than half, because you and I will still buy the high-end phones that cost north of a thousand dollars.”
09 / prediction
“Anyway, there's a tremendous opportunity to bring breakthrough innovation simply because there are so many layers where things are unoptimized.”
10 / prediction
“I'd bet if AI is as important as you and I believe, they will centralize sooner than the West does.”
11 / prediction
“China has no issue with that at all because their supply chain adds as much power as like half of Europe every year.”
12 / prediction
“I don't even think like, I expect in the next few years that the OpenAI Microsoft probably falls apart too.”
13 / prediction
“So in training, everyone just talks about MFU, right? But then on inference, right, which I think is one LLM inference will be bigger than training or multimodal, whatever, bubble inference will be bigger than training, probably next year, in fact, at least in terms of GPUs deployed.”