01:37:58 · Stacy Rasgon, Jordi Hays, John Coogan
[01:37:58] S6: at least from a spending standpoint, from what we consider, it's probably not 2027 either. Now we'll see what the stocks do. Like, they tend to be anticipatory. But in terms of, like, an air pocket or something in spending, I'm I'm not really all that worried yet. Yeah. When? I don't know. But, like, it's not now. [01:38:13] S1: Yeah. Do you do you how much have you, subscribed to this idea of, like, rolling rolling bubbles? So like right now, it seems like we've had we've had like explosion, you know, a lot of excitement around neo clouds this year. All, you know, pretty much all of them have sold off a ton in the last month. Maybe partly because of some of the comments out of the opening. I can't have been lack of lack of confidence. [01:38:35] S0: Yeah. [01:38:36] S1: But at the same time, Seagate, Western Digital, these other companies are up tremendously. I mean,
01:38:36 · Jordi Hays, Stacy Rasgon, John Coogan
[01:38:36] S1: But at the same time, Seagate, Western Digital, these other companies are up tremendously. I mean, [01:38:42] S6: yeah, the storage, they're covered by a colleague of mine now. But I mean, just go up 10% every day, right? But that's the thing. It all really comes down to demand. Demand is off the charts. Nobody can get enough compute. The neo clouds are all even with CorWeave, there was they a bit of a delay. They just don't have the capacity, right? They pushed out a little bit. It's still there. Again, the storage guys are ripping because the memory prices are going through the roof because there's so much there's a lack of supply relative to demand. All we've seen from the hyperscalers is CapEx numbers going up and up and up and up. Like nobody can get enough compute right That's where we are. And I think that is so the overarching that's the overarching thesis like either way. You Like go back to the question about GPU [01:39:29] S0: Yeah.
01:39:29 · John Coogan, Stacy Rasgon, Jordi Hays, Luca Ferrari
[01:39:29] S0: Yeah. [01:39:29] S6: Depreciation, GPU lifetimes, for This is what Burry was getting at. He was saying, Oh, well, they're all using your six year depreciation lifetimes, and these things don't last more than three years because you've got new stuff coming in. It's not true right now. Right? I mean, can look, they're still renting out old GPUs for much more than it costs them to operate them. It's clearly possible to run them longer than three years. It comes down to demand. Right now, is so strong, it is absolutely economic to run that stuff. If demand weakens, maybe it won't be, if demand weakens, we're all screwed anyway. Right? So, to me, all of the bear cases that you come up with right now, to me, collapse under the same thing. Is demand there or is it not? Right now, it's it's it's there, and and it's not showing any the demand side is not showing any signs of weakening. [01:40:18] S0: What about the the the leaked phone call from Sarah Fryer, the CFO of OpenAI, where there was this idea that potentially there was missed what she said was [01:40:31] S1: user minutes user minutes were dropping, which implies [01:40:34] S0: In the core ChatGPT which feels like the leading indicator for all AI. Yeah, but that's more [01:40:39] S6: than just OpenAI, too. You could argue that we want OpenAI to be there because Altman's driving a lot of this Totally. Incremental [01:40:46] S5: Yeah, yeah. [01:40:47] S6: So we'll see. But there's lots of demand. It's not just OpenAI, it's OpenAI. It's anthropic. Totally. It's Gemini. [01:40:53] S1: Totally.
01:40:53 · Jordi Hays, Stacy Rasgon, John Tennant, John Coogan, Luca Ferrari
[01:40:53] S1: Totally. [01:40:54] S6: In general, right now, I I mean, usage is going up. [01:40:57] S4: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. [01:40:57] S0: So Yeah. I mean, I I'm sure we'll get more information on the on the Google side because some could be [01:41:02] S6: of the when you see these leaks, like, always have to be a [01:41:04] S0: little careful about Yeah. It was very odd that it was, like, from an investor only call. Yeah. Like, what investor would leak [01:41:10] S6: that means? By the way, we we we do calls like that. And stuff gets taken out of context. So I was I don't I don't know what they said. I wasn't on on that call. [01:41:17] S0: Yeah. Yeah. [01:41:17] S6: Yeah. I'm always a little hesitant to take and I do this for a living. Right? [01:41:21] S4: Always a [01:41:21] S6: little hesitant to take that [01:41:22] S0: Those leads. [01:41:23] S6: Face value. You have to, [01:41:24] S5: you know Yeah. [01:41:25] S6: You have you have to diligence. [01:41:26] S0: Yeah. Yeah. I mean, at the same time, like, to your point of the, like, s curve nature of these adoptions, it's possible that, you know, 800,000,000 is a lot of people. Like Yeah. You do, at some point, saturate everyone and Sure. There's only there's only so much time in the day. [01:41:38] S6: Then billion people in the world. [01:41:40] S0: Yeah. Yeah. But, I mean, it took it took Facebook years to get up into the high [01:41:43] S6: And that is that is the thing, by the way. I've been doing this job almost eighteen years. [01:41:48] S5: Yeah.
01:41:48 · Luca Ferrari, Stacy Rasgon, John Coogan
[01:41:48] S5: Yeah. [01:41:50] S6: Same seat. Mhmm. I've never seen anything like this before. Yeah. Right? I mean, this is this is unprecedented. And just and that's why people get nervous. Yeah. Because the numbers have gotten so big [01:41:59] S0: Yep. [01:42:00] S6: So quickly you just sit there and stare at them. Yeah. It's like, oh, this can't be sustainable. Mean, we've been hearing it for for two and a half years. Yeah. Still going. [01:42:08] S0: Yeah. So, I mean, in this idea of the k shaped recovery or this, you know, cycle of little bubbles popping up and popping, how do you process something like CoreWeave? Like, it feels like Yeah. Everything is going so well. And and to the point where the the the negativity around AI is like a rumored leak of a phone call, but then we're seeing a company trade down by 50% in a month. [01:42:33] S6: Yeah. Well, again, I won't talk with CoreWeave specifically, but I mean, look, anything that goes out where valuations are high, expectations are high. It's not just that lots of things have weakened off of peaks. It's fine. The neo clouds in general, they're all seeing tons of demand. I'm not really worried in general right now about where the demand is going. The only thing we're seeing in terms of spending intentions and everything else is right now is And again, I think that is the question, how long does it last? I don't think anybody knows. Yeah. If you just look at, like I said, at least what is currently being forecasted by the companies that are doing the spending at this point, there's no signs of a slowdown. Not yet.
01:42:33 · Stacy Rasgon, John Coogan, John Tennant
[01:42:33] S6: Yeah. Well, again, I won't talk with CoreWeave specifically, but I mean, look, anything that goes out where valuations are high, expectations are high. It's not just that lots of things have weakened off of peaks. It's fine. The neo clouds in general, they're all seeing tons of demand. I'm not really worried in general right now about where the demand is going. The only thing we're seeing in terms of spending intentions and everything else is right now is And again, I think that is the question, how long does it last? I don't think anybody knows. Yeah. If you just look at, like I said, at least what is currently being forecasted by the companies that are doing the spending at this point, there's no signs of a slowdown. Not yet. [01:43:17] S0: What do you think of this thesis that some of the hyperscalers are maybe offloading risk to the Neo Cloud? [01:43:23] S6: Oh, they clearly are. Right? I I mean yeah. Which is which is fine. That's part of the purpose, I think, that the Neo Cloud serve. [01:43:28] S4: Sure. [01:43:29] S6: You know, you're kind of at the tip of the spear. Right? It's it's it's it's it's boom or bust. Right? Yeah. I mean, but that's that's part of their business model, I think.