Everyone in AI is playing chess and Elon is playing Monopoly 🎲
The labs are arguing over whose model is 2 points smarter
He's buying every property on the board, data centers, chips, power, grids
Grok losing the chess match barely matters when you own the hotels everyone else has to stay in
Rent's due, and it sounds like even Anthropic is paying it
Give it a few years and the smartest model won't win, the cheapest ground to run one will
Pretty much.
As of the past few weeks, debt markets have almost entirely shut off access to money for any company that doesn’t have substantial revenue independent of AI data centers.
SpaceX closed $40B of debt for GPUs, but we’re investment grade and have Starlink & launch revenue.
That means the 200+ neoclouds are going to see guppy-level death and consolidation. Some will make it through, but not many.