Jordi Visser / VisserLabs

AI’s Speed Crash Is Creating the Next Opportunity

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Complete 54:09 min youtube 2026 Week 28 Jul 12, 2026 🇬🇧 EN
TL;DR
Research summary

▶ Market setup and the AI macro thesis

The speaker previews a discussion of bubbles, sharp declines, AI, the token index, Meta, Apple, crypto, and a claimed end to the midcycle slowdown. They describe the recent period as a sentiment and technical reset, with bearish arguments becoming more common. Their central framing is that AI is now a macro force affecting productivity, labor, inflation, capital spending, energy, digital assets, monetary policy, and market structure. They point to elevated technology volatility and a correlation with S&P volatility, but say resilient broad-market behavior and the pullback are consistent with a structural bull market driven by token demand. They caution that the AI trade is more widely recognized now, so growth may slow relative to its earlier pace; they distinguish that from an end to the longer-term opportunity.

▶ Memory stocks, valuation, and supply constraints

The speaker treats the drops in Samsung and Micron after strong Samsung preliminary results as a sharp correction within a bull market, arguing that prior weakness and deleveraging help explain the reaction. They expect the memory shares to recover and say they believe the stocks will be significantly higher before year-end. They acknowledge a counterargument: investors who expect memory demand and prices to fall with the usual cycle may reasonably avoid the shares. Their bullish case depends on demand and prices remaining high, earnings estimates being exceeded, and capacity being constrained; they cite analyst expectations for Samsung operating profit above $217 billion in 2026 and describe its valuation as low relative to projected earnings. The speaker’s broader allocation thesis is to be short “abundance”—replicable code—and long “scarcity,” meaning physically constrained goods and services. They report having exited Micron in mid-May, say they may buy some back soon, and expect memory stocks to be higher in six months. They attribute limited risk of excess capacity to supply-side and power constraints, including cautious foundry expansion and difficulty bringing power and equipment online.

▶ Deleveraging, technical reset, and portfolio positioning

The speaker says the second-derivative slowdown in AI growth has become consensus and describes substantial losses across systematic and fundamental managers, retail leveraged products, and AI-related funds. They cite systematic long-short managers down 2.1% through Thursday after a 3.1% decline over five days, while noting they remained up for the year; leveraged retail exposure to selected memory names had given back 62%. They also cite semiconductor oversold readings and deterioration in their own technical measures, which they interpret as a possible entry point, while acknowledging the market could fall further. Their 100-name thematic portfolio had 21 names above the 20-day average at one point, rising to 31 by week’s end; they cite 76% above a rising 50-day and 86% above a rising 200-day. The speaker says they reduced several positions significantly, especially Micron, kept some unchanged, and shifted some exposure into silver and Bitcoin, which had not worked as well. They plan to review names in a concentrated 10-name basket and identify potential opportunities. They also say Nvidia peaked before the broader AI infrastructure trade and cite a technical recovery setup in Nvidia, one of the basket’s holdings.

▶ Token demand and the next AI consumption waves

The speaker argues that the token expenditure index has been misused as a direct measure of AI adoption or profitability. They describe its rise as reflecting coding-agent capability, OpenClaw, enterprise catch-up spending, and exploratory use, followed by a decline associated with bill shock, seasonal usage changes, and users shifting toward open-source tools. In their view, the index does not capture ongoing adoption. They cite SemiAnalysis founder Dylan Patel’s reported spending as an example: less than $100,000 in November, about $4 million annualized by January, roughly $11 million annualized currently, and a peak-week equivalent of $14 million at a 90-person firm. They argue that organizations may cut legacy software spending rather than AI budgets, and that the best model can cost less overall for assistant work by reducing tokens, iterations, and human time; cheaper models may suit fixed workflows. The speaker maintains that AI-related memory demand differs from a conventional hardware cycle because token demand can grow with model productivity while memory capacity grows only 20–30% a year over the next three years, according to their cited source. They describe algorithmic efficiency as a possible eventual remedy but a long shot in the near term. Consumer agents, self-driving systems, and humanoids are presented as future demand sources. The speaker says consumer AI adoption is currently slowed by an immature product layer and friction: agents need to fit into daily routines and earn trust, context, timing, and permissions. If that interface problem is solved, they expect token use to rise sharply; they cite a reported Goldman estimate of roughly 24 times current consumption, to around 120 quadrillion tokens per month.

▶ Compute demand, AI spending, and consumer agents

The speaker says they are increasingly interested in the potential of consumer agents and points to Apple’s share-price reaction as suggestive: after a sell-the-news response to an AI Siri announcement and a decline following a reported 20% price increase tied to memory prices, Apple returned to closing highs. They note that Apple is expensive on a PEG basis, so their interpretation is that the price action may reflect more than current fundamentals. To counter claims of excess capacity, they cite recent company statements that customer demand exceeds capacity, compute is allocated where returns are expected, and some products are sold out or reserved; they also cite reported backlogs of $627 billion for Microsoft, $462 billion for Google, $225 billion for Amazon, and $638 billion for Oracle. They say compute markets continue to tighten and cite a SemiAnalysis forecast of $11.1 trillion in capex, above Goldman’s $7.6 trillion estimate, while allowing that annual growth may slow even as spending remains large. The speaker argues that frontier models will remain important for new use cases and complex workflows, while open-source or lower-cost models can serve mature production workflows. They note a reported 90% open-source workload share at one company, but say open-source models’ share of enterprise spending had fallen from 19% to 11%; in their account, closed models dominate early discovery and open source tends to win later production. They mention Palantir as a holding in their 100-name portfolio and say they agree that businesses may take seriously its argument for owning their own systems, while acknowledging its advocate is promoting his own company.

▶ Crypto, tokenization, and changing financial infrastructure

After briefly noting an AI model release and an emerging discussion about AI consciousness that they have not yet assessed, the speaker turns to crypto. They argue that investors can no longer dismiss digital assets as merely speculative, because AI-agent commerce may make programmable money, collateral, payments, and settlement more important. They announce plans for a crypto-focused channel, with much of its time devoted to crypto, tokenization, stablecoins, and new payment systems. Citing a speech attributed to Scott Bessent and an op-ed attributed to Mohamed El-Erian, they describe a policy shift in which economic security is tied to national security and trade, investment, technology, supply chains, payment systems, and the dollar become tools of strategic power. They say the US is framing crypto infrastructure as financial statecraft, while noting that the Clarity Act was not yet through and referring to a previously passed digital asset payments law. They connect this to Marc Andreessen’s 2014 “Why Bitcoin Matters” argument and say agentic AI commerce could make payment rails an operating layer for agents that consume compute, manage subscriptions, and settle invoices. They present Bitcoin and crypto as possible growth assets in a changing capital structure, while recognizing traditional-finance skepticism and regulatory issues. Their proposed crypto index has 40 names across eight verticals: 34 tokens and six public companies, with Bitcoin as an overlay; the speaker describes Bitcoin as the “S&P 500” of future tokenization. They say Bitcoin remains in a bear market technically, with the 50-day moving average the next threshold and the 200-day relevant after that. Dogecoin is their gauge of retail energy and remains below its 20-day and 200-day averages. They also say Bitcoin closed higher than when an announcement that Michael Saylor had sold about 3,500 coins came out, interpreting that response as constructive.

▶ Fed scenarios and closing outlook

The speaker discusses a paper on the Fed, inflation targets, and AI’s potential effect on policy. They say July is, in their view, the only month in which the Fed might raise rates, putting the chance near 50%, and speculate that a hike could be accompanied by indirect signaling to avoid surprising markets. They describe markets shifting from expecting rate cuts to pricing possible hikes, alongside Bitcoin’s decline, and say growth-versus-value performance has broken down. Their conditional view is that if the Fed hikes, it would likely be a single 25-basis-point move and long-term rates could fall afterward as Fed credibility improves. If it does not hike, they expect no action and believe Bitcoin could gain a tailwind. The speaker closes by thanking viewers and saying they will spend the rest of the summer in Maine and provide another update next week.

Full transcript
[0:00] Um, stocks just
[0:03] continue to, uh,
[0:04] defy what's
[0:05] going on. Um, I'm
[0:07] going to look into
[0:08] that today. I'm
[0:09] going to remind
[0:10] you guys about
[0:11] bubbles, parabasas,
[0:13] and velocity collapses,
[0:14] and kind of give you some
[0:15] idea of ​​what we've
[0:16] seen the last
[0:17] four to six weeks with
[0:19] internal AI. And I'm
[0:20] going to say right
[0:22] now that, uh, the
[0:23] mid-cycle slowdown
[0:24] is ending. And it's not that
[0:26] we won't see the
[0:28] pace of change. But
[0:29] now it's not surprising anymore.
[0:32] Uh, the positioning
[0:34] has changed and I'm
[0:34] starting to hear people
[0:36] trying to be
[0:37] bearish start to
[0:39] get out of
[0:40] hand and highlight a
[0:41] whole bunch of things that I'll
[0:42] address. Uh, it was a
[0:45] mood and
[0:45] technical cleanup.
[0:47] Uh, I'll tell you why that is
[0:48] . I'm going to
[0:49] look at the
[0:50] token index. I've
[0:51] been called more about this
[0:52] than
[0:53] anything else
[0:54] over the past
[0:54] three weeks, from both
[0:55] institutional
[0:56] retail firms
[0:57] and very
[0:58] experienced
[0:58] technical professionals,
[0:59] asking why
[1:00] this token index doesn't
[1:01] matter. Uh,
[1:02] Apple's Meta, interesting
[1:03] week, uh, I
[1:04] wrote an article about the
[1:05] meta. I spend a lot of time on
[1:07] consumer
[1:08] AI agents
[1:09] , which I
[1:10] think is the next
[1:11] topic. I've already talked
[1:12] about the applied
[1:13] side, but now I'll
[1:14] start looking at something
[1:15] that's happening
[1:16] more and more, and what
[1:17] I think
[1:18] will be the main theme of the
[1:19] next 12 months.
[1:20] I will remind people about
[1:22] exponential
[1:23] demand versus linear
[1:24] supply. Scott
[1:25] Bessant gave a
[1:26] talk, and I
[1:27] spent a lot of time on it
[1:29] this week,
[1:30] regarding cryptocurrencies
[1:31] . I'm going to start by telling
[1:34] you what I've been talking about
[1:36] for the last
[1:37] month, which is the beginning of a
[1:38] new part of AI Macro
[1:40] Nexus, remind you
[1:41] what all this was for, but
[1:42] combine that with what
[1:44] Scott Besson said, what
[1:45] Marc Andre said
[1:47] about Bitcoin, and it's going to be
[1:48] new, in the same
[1:49] format as this, but
[1:50] very crypto-
[1:51] focused. And we'll
[1:54] summarize what
[1:55] happened with
[1:56] cryptocurrency this
[1:57] week. First of all,
[1:59] overall, I have had
[2:00] great success with RAAS.
[2:04] For those of you who are
[2:05] financial
[2:06] advisors and
[2:07] want to take the time to see
[2:08] how my work
[2:09] can be expanded
[2:11] beyond just this
[2:12] YouTube video and
[2:13] subscription site, I'll show
[2:14] you where you can
[2:15] go. But, uh,
[2:17] in between that, and especially on the
[2:18] part of the agency that's
[2:19] working on the
[2:21] knowledge brain, it's been, uh, a
[2:22] really good three
[2:23] weeks where I've been
[2:23] helping people not
[2:24] only stay up to date
[2:25] with
[2:26] AI but also
[2:27] start, uh,
[2:28] using it
[2:29] more and more, and
[2:31] I think that's
[2:31] helping. So I
[2:32] just want to remind
[2:34] people what it
[2:35] was called, because
[2:36] this week's video
[2:37] explains why it's an
[2:38] AI macro. Uh,
[2:40] AI is no longer just a
[2:41] technology story.
[2:43] It becomes the dominant
[2:44] macro force of the cycle. It
[2:45] changes
[2:45] productivity,
[2:46] labor, inflation
[2:47] , capital spending,
[2:48] energy, demand,
[2:48] digital assets,
[2:49] monetary policy,
[2:50] market structure.
[2:51] Connectivity is the intersection of
[2:52] these forces, and it's where
[2:53] investors
[2:54] connect. The reason
[2:55] I say this is
[2:56] because, um,
[2:58] in everything you
[2:59] deal with, when you
[3:00] read anything about
[3:01] productivity, about
[3:03] labor, about inflation,
[3:04] about the Fed, about
[3:05] whatever, AI is
[3:06] part of every
[3:07] decision that's
[3:08] made. And so
[3:09] you should be
[3:10] aware of this. This is
[3:11] changing the world before our
[3:13] eyes. Here is one
[3:14] example. So, this is something
[3:15] I've, um, shown
[3:17] many times. I
[3:18] did
[3:18] a video update for
[3:19] subscribers, um, where I
[3:20] started to address the
[3:21] fact that I think the
[3:23] slowdown has reached a
[3:24] point where we've
[3:25] done enough
[3:26] damage. Um, and that's where the
[3:27] damage was. This is the 60-day
[3:29] realized V macro-
[3:32] factor
[3:33] technology
[3:34] momentum from Morgan Stanley. The
[3:35] white line here is
[3:36] it. So, we grew up,
[3:38] and I showed it for a
[3:39] while. I
[3:39] showed this when it
[3:41] was around 70. Now
[3:42] we're at 87. This
[3:43] continues until today,
[3:44] Friday. I do this on
[3:46] Friday evening. This
[3:48] overlaps with the 60-
[3:49] day S&P
[3:51] V. So historically
[3:52] there is a correlation.
[3:54] That is, if you see the
[3:55] tech
[3:56] momentum V explode
[3:57] like this, you
[3:58] usually see the S&P
[4:00] V follow suit. The one
[4:01] thing we have is that
[4:02] tech
[4:03] companies have been
[4:04] growing for some time now. That's
[4:05] why we make these
[4:06] bubbles, paralysis,
[4:07] and speed crashes.
[4:10] Here's what's happening.
[4:12] That's why you need to
[4:13] be on top of this
[4:14] , because this is a
[4:15] structural bull
[4:16] market. It is based
[4:17] on the demand for tokens.
[4:18] Everything I
[4:19] built everything on depends
[4:20] on the demand for tokens.
[4:22] This entire video
[4:23] should give you complete
[4:24] confidence that we
[4:25] are not in
[4:26] a bubble where there is no
[4:27] excess
[4:28] computing
[4:28] power because
[4:30] Meta is selling off some.
[4:31] I hope you
[4:32] guys understand
[4:33] that if this is true, then
[4:34] within the next
[4:35] six months you will have an
[4:36] opportunity when
[4:37] this rises higher.
[4:38] This pushed people all over the
[4:39] world into
[4:40] retail,
[4:42] into hedge funds, everywhere
[4:43] where people
[4:43] were using
[4:44] leverage and
[4:45] probably taking on excessive
[4:46] risk. We've seen
[4:47] this come out now
[4:49] , mainly because
[4:50] V was too
[4:51] high for people not to
[4:52] do it. S&P, I don't
[4:53] know how you can
[4:54] look at this
[4:55] chart and not be
[4:56] optimistic. Um, I
[4:57] said last week
[4:58] that I showed it as a
[4:59] triangle. You know, we
[5:01] get bad
[5:02] news from Iran, and
[5:02] stocks still
[5:03] go up. We do whatever you
[5:04] want. We
[5:05] sell
[5:06] Samsung shares on good
[5:07] performance. Stocks are
[5:08] still rising. This
[5:09] triangle in NDX
[5:10] shows low
[5:11] results. Again
[5:12] , technology is
[5:12] lagging behind. We
[5:13] get more
[5:14] information about
[5:14] financial indicators,
[5:15] more movement in
[5:16] healthcare. But we are
[5:17] finally starting to
[5:17] see some
[5:18] technological
[5:18] rebound. But again
[5:20] , this is a graph that
[5:21] looks
[5:21] optimistic. Uh, just a
[5:22] reminder, if you
[5:24] guys haven't
[5:25] seen this, I made this
[5:26] video back on May 10th. Uh,
[5:27] and the main focus here,
[5:28] which was about the
[5:30] first end down,
[5:31] is on how
[5:32] we should expect
[5:33] this trade to go. Uh
[5:35] , when you have
[5:35] bubbles and
[5:36] parabasas on the way
[5:37] up, you're going to have
[5:38] velocity collapses on the
[5:39] way down. If all of
[5:41] this is happening
[5:41] within a
[5:42] structural
[5:43] bull market,
[5:44] which I will continue to
[5:45] talk about, then it is a
[5:45] structural bull
[5:47] market. You want to
[5:47] ride the wave of a
[5:49] macro bull market,
[5:50] especially when you
[5:51] are in
[5:52] the first innings of
[5:52] demand for
[5:53] AI tokens.
[5:55] Even though
[5:56] someone says it can't
[5:56] be the first
[5:57] inning based on the
[5:58] graphs, those graphs were
[5:59] evidence that
[6:00] people
[6:01] were wrong about
[6:02] AI for two years,
[6:03] saying it was a
[6:03] bubble. These are
[6:04] hallucinations. This will
[6:05] not do anything. They
[6:06] had to catch up
[6:08] as soon as
[6:09] profits appeared. Then we
[6:10] reached the second
[6:11] march, and it won't be so
[6:12] easy from now on. So, it's
[6:13] not that
[6:14] this deal will do what it
[6:15] did before. We are well
[6:16] past the
[6:17] first inning of the
[6:18] speed of change. But do
[6:19] I think you'll
[6:20] get five more
[6:22] shares in Micron and SK Heinex in
[6:23] these things over the
[6:24] next five years
[6:26] ? It is likely that this will be the case
[6:28] , but it is
[6:29] less than the
[6:30] 20% drop that has occurred since
[6:31] March of last
[6:32] year. So we'll
[6:34] slow down, because
[6:35] now everyone knows about it
[6:36] . So, Samsung
[6:38] posted a
[6:39] preliminary
[6:40] quarterly profit
[6:41] before mill sales, which
[6:42] grew 19 times.
[6:44] Micron shares fell that day.
[6:46] Samsung shares also
[6:47] fell that day. Here is
[6:49] the graph, and that's the first thing
[6:50] I want to show.
[6:51] I saw
[6:52] three separate YouTube videos this week
[6:54] about the market where
[6:55] they said it was a
[6:56] news failure. You see,
[6:57] there is good
[6:58] news. They
[6:59] exceeded
[7:00] expectations and the stock
[7:01] sold out.
[7:02] The problem is that we have
[7:03] already sold the shares.
[7:04] I don't agree with the
[7:05] fact that when there
[7:06] was already a correction, you
[7:07] already had a weakening,
[7:08] whereas we
[7:09] remain
[7:09] unchanged during
[7:10] this time, when you
[7:11] get good
[7:12] news, you have to
[7:13] sit back and say that
[7:14] this is a bearish trend. Is
[7:15] this something that showed
[7:16] that the unwinding and
[7:17] deleveraging is
[7:19] still ongoing? Yes. But
[7:20] if you ask
[7:21] me what
[7:22] the range is going to be and where
[7:23] the support is going to be going
[7:24] forward, I'll tell
[7:25] you that I think this is the
[7:26] high from February, this is the
[7:28] low from here, and this
[7:29] will be around the
[7:30] lower end of
[7:31] the range. And I think
[7:33] we'll be significantly
[7:34] higher by the end of the year
[7:35] because of what I'm going to
[7:36] show you. The problem is that
[7:39] everyone is looking for
[7:40] correction. So if I
[7:42] told you that
[7:43] over the course of 10 days,
[7:45] over the course of two days
[7:46] after that, that was the
[7:48] rolling 10-day rate of
[7:49] change at Samsung, okay,
[7:51] that was the highest
[7:52] since the middle of the
[7:54] panic when we
[7:55] shut down the world, 25-26%. It
[7:57] was 21. The only other
[7:59] time it was
[8:00] this big on a 10-
[8:01] day basis was
[8:02] right after Lehman Brothers
[8:04] . So this is a
[8:05] speed crash. It didn't
[8:06] feel that way. You
[8:07] don't think it
[8:08] looks like it, but
[8:09] within a bull
[8:10] market, that's a big
[8:11] drop, especially
[8:12] when you've had these
[8:13] types of increases that
[8:14] were much
[8:14] bigger. So, this is the
[8:16] moving average of the 10-day
[8:17] shift. You had an
[8:18] indicator of 35. So, this
[8:20] was a correction
[8:21] within a bull
[8:22] market. Here's where we
[8:23] are
[8:24] based on P/E for
[8:25] next year. So,
[8:26] everyone who wants to
[8:27] overshadow this, I
[8:28] completely agree. If
[8:29] you believe in
[8:30] the cyclical nature of memory,
[8:31] you should absolutely
[8:32] sit back and ignore
[8:34] it. If you
[8:35] believe demand
[8:37] will remain
[8:38] very high
[8:39] and prices
[8:39] will remain
[8:40] high
[8:41] for the next
[8:42] three years, that is
[8:43] too cheap and
[8:44] suggests a
[8:45] much higher P/E than
[8:46] usual. If you
[8:48] guys look at
[8:49] this and pay attention
[8:50] to my PEG ratio,
[8:52] when we look at
[8:53] earnings growth
[8:54] relative to P/E, they're already
[8:55] not factoring in that it's going
[8:57] to slow down at these
[8:58] levels. They have already
[8:59] factored in a bearish
[9:00] outcome in terms of
[9:01] multipliers.
[9:03] That's how ridiculous
[9:04] these numbers are. And that's why,
[9:06] when people say it's business
[9:07] as usual,
[9:10] Samsung's operating profit in 2026 could
[9:11] exceed
[9:12] $217 billion.
[9:15] That's what
[9:16] analysts think. OK.
[9:18] The company could
[9:19] generate more
[9:20] operating income
[9:21] this year than its
[9:23] combined operating
[9:24] income over the past 40
[9:25] years. Don't treat
[9:27] this as a
[9:28] one-time event
[9:29] where AI just does
[9:30] it and everyone buys
[9:31] excessively and then we'll have a
[9:33] problem. This is nonsense
[9:34] . Hmm, we're not even
[9:36] in the
[9:36] first inning of
[9:37] token demand. I
[9:39] will keep
[9:40] repeating this because
[9:41] no one believed in the
[9:42] demand for tokens until
[9:43] we finally got
[9:44] to January of this year. And
[9:45] I'll talk about in some of
[9:46] Dylan
[9:47] Patel's podcasts from Semi analysis
[9:48] how much
[9:50] his spending has changed and where he's
[9:51] been from last December
[9:52] to today. This
[9:54] should give you an idea
[9:55] of ​​someone who is very
[9:56] knowledgeable about
[9:58] growing businesses, who
[9:59] understands how
[10:00] to use AI, and
[10:01] his team does
[10:02] , and how he
[10:03] went from a
[10:05] $100,000 budget to
[10:06] $11 million
[10:07] in six
[10:08] months in terms of
[10:09] what
[10:10] his annual
[10:11] revenue costs would be. So, the valuation of the
[10:13] Korean company
[10:14] Cosby falls to its
[10:14] lowest level
[10:15] since the global
[10:16] financial crisis. This is
[10:17] exactly what you see
[10:19] at the summits. Just kidding.
[10:22] Um, here's Salesforce.com. Everyone
[10:27] who is
[10:28] pessimistic about
[10:30] memories are the same
[10:31] people who wanted to
[10:32] buy Salesforce when
[10:33] it was falling. So Salesforce
[10:37] now has a 10p to
[10:39] 2028, 11
[10:39] P/E multiple to
[10:41] next year. So
[10:43] , again, we have a
[10:44] P/E ratio of 4 for
[10:45] Samsung, their earnings
[10:47] will grow
[10:48] 524% this year, and next year
[10:49] it will be 43.
[10:51] They are not even close
[10:51] to
[10:52] hitting their estimates yet.
[10:54] They far
[10:54] exceeded them. And yet
[10:56] , somehow,
[10:57] these shares are trading
[10:59] at 11 pence. This is a
[11:01] problem. That's why
[11:03] I've been saying since the beginning of the year
[11:04] that you need a
[11:05] short position on
[11:06] abundance. Anything
[11:07] built on code
[11:08] that can be
[11:09] reproduced by
[11:10] a computer. And the long
[11:11] position is about
[11:12] the deficit. Everything that
[11:16] shoppers spend on
[11:17] that is physically limited
[11:19] by line people. That's
[11:23] all. People create
[11:25] it, computers
[11:26] create it. This topic
[11:27] will continue
[11:28] to pervade because it is
[11:29] about
[11:30] exponential
[11:31] demand. So again
[11:32] , I posted this on
[11:33] June 8th. I started
[11:34] talking about
[11:36] leaving Micron in
[11:37] mid-May.
[11:38] Again, I left well before
[11:39] reaching the summit,
[11:40] but my goal
[11:41] was not to reach the summit.
[11:42] My goal was to
[11:43] be in a
[11:44] position where I
[11:44] would probably be
[11:45] buying
[11:46] back some of the shares in the
[11:47] near future,
[11:47] especially after the
[11:48] SKH Heinix deal that
[11:49] happened today,
[11:50] just because I hear
[11:51] people are
[11:52] pessimistic. And I
[11:53] believe that in 6
[11:54] months we will be
[11:55] much higher than we are
[11:56] now. Now that
[11:57] we've had some
[11:58] pullback, and also
[11:59] because we've had
[12:00] another
[12:01] earnings report, and I'm
[12:02] no longer worried about some of the
[12:03] things that I
[12:04] think could have been a
[12:05] problem in
[12:06] terms of bottlenecks, it
[12:07] looks like we're just
[12:08] going to be in a situation where
[12:09] things are
[12:09] going to be
[12:10] slow.
[12:12] Mainly because there
[12:13] are restrictions
[12:14] set by people
[12:15] that prevent this from
[12:16] becoming a bubble.
[12:17] Believe it or not, it's the
[12:19] supply side,
[12:20] TSMC, which won't be
[12:21] rebuilding,
[12:22] the fact that gas
[12:23] turbines and all that makes things
[12:24] very difficult
[12:25] . We
[12:26] find solutions
[12:27] to every
[12:28] energy problem, and
[12:29] they find
[12:30] ways to do it.
[12:31] So I just think that
[12:32] will keep prices
[12:33] higher because we
[12:34] won't be able to
[12:35] get the capacity in time.
[12:36] Economics, that is,
[12:37] navigating the
[12:38] slowdown of the
[12:39] average
[12:39] AI cycle. I
[12:41] still believe in changing the
[12:42] second derivative, but
[12:43] now I think
[12:44] that's the consensus. That's what
[12:46] we did, and that's
[12:47] part of it. So you're
[12:48] not only paying attention
[12:49] to what I hear
[12:50] from people, but you also
[12:51] want to see what
[12:52] damage we've done. Here's
[12:53] what happened. We have already
[12:55] returned 50 or almost
[12:57] 50% of the
[12:58] technology growth from Opus 4.5.
[13:01] And the reason I'm
[13:02] excited about Opus 4.5 is
[13:03] because that's when the
[13:05] changes happened. That's
[13:06] when people started to
[13:08] recognize it. That's when
[13:09] people started
[13:10] investing. And I want
[13:11] you to look at
[13:12] this because when I
[13:13] look at this from
[13:14] February and then up,
[13:16] it looks a lot like the
[13:17] token index, which
[13:18] I'll come back to
[13:19] later. And I'm not
[13:20] worried about the
[13:20] token index, but
[13:21] I think people
[13:22] have started
[13:22] using the
[13:23] token index for
[13:24] something it should
[13:25] n't be
[13:25] used for. I
[13:26] think it
[13:28] should drop to zero over time. Um
[13:29] , and more importantly, I
[13:30] don't think it
[13:30] should grow. I
[13:31] never think it
[13:32] should grow,
[13:33] and technically it doesn't,
[13:34] which I'll also
[13:35] talk about. When these
[13:35] stories appear,
[13:36] it's usually a good
[13:37] sign. Shares of
[13:38] managers with
[13:38] systematic
[13:39] long short
[13:40] positions fell 2.1%
[13:41] last week through
[13:42] Thursday after
[13:42] falling 3.1%
[13:43] over 5 days. This
[13:44] was their worst
[13:45] performance since December 23.
[13:46] By most
[13:46] indicators I've
[13:47] seen, they've given up
[13:48] the position. And these are again
[13:49] managers with
[13:49] systematic
[13:50] long short
[13:51] positions. So, these are
[13:51] quantitative managers.
[13:52] They gave up the position
[13:53] for about a third of the
[13:54] year. They are still
[13:55] ready for the year. This is not
[13:56] some big panic.
[13:58] I talked about this
[13:59] feeling a little bit, uh,
[14:00] in a webinar I
[14:01] did this week
[14:02] for subscribers,
[14:03] about this feeling that feels a
[14:04] little bit like 2007.
[14:06] Hmm, and that it
[14:06] will end
[14:07] around the same
[14:09] time as there, which is in the
[14:10] first 10 days. I still
[14:11] think there might be
[14:12] a little left, but
[14:13] I also think
[14:14] mutual funds have proven
[14:15] themselves to be
[14:16] lower than I thought, just as
[14:17] they
[14:17] bankrupted a good
[14:19] portion of that
[14:20] SKH Heinik deal. Hmm,
[14:20] fundamental
[14:21] managers also
[14:22] fell and we know that the
[14:23] pod indices had to
[14:24] close, as I
[14:25] said, because of
[14:26] how high
[14:27] V was. Here's the
[14:28] de-leveraging on the
[14:29] retail side
[14:30] . Although we
[14:31] only had about a 23%
[14:33] correction on the
[14:35] SKH Highix and Samsung side
[14:36] to about 30, er, 38,
[14:38] and again, it's
[14:39] back to Opus. The
[14:41] retail side,
[14:42] using
[14:43] double
[14:44] leverage, returned 62%.
[14:46] So I think
[14:47] retail
[14:48] was washed up. Morgan
[14:49] Stanley published this
[14:50] on their
[14:51] AI beneficiaries and
[14:53] you can see the
[14:54] massive outflow that
[14:55] happened and we had three
[14:56] weeks of pretty big,
[14:57] uh, outflows in terms of
[14:59] net flows.
[15:00] Jeff DeGraff, I
[15:01] like to
[15:02] combine these things.
[15:03] It was wonderful. Nearly
[15:04] 87% of
[15:05] S&P
[15:06] 500 semiconductor issues registered and
[15:08] were oversold on a 14
[15:09] -day basis. He
[15:10] uses these
[15:11] lines. You can
[15:12] see that they
[15:13] were all very good
[15:14] bottoms, except for this one here.
[15:15] Everyone else, uh, except for these
[15:17] two little things
[15:18] here. So, can
[15:19] it go lower?
[15:20] Of course, it can. But
[15:21] at least you
[15:22] get it from that
[15:23] side too. Here's what happened on
[15:24] my side in
[15:25] terms of the technical
[15:26] sheet I
[15:27] posted. This was
[15:28] from May 29th, the week just
[15:29] ended.
[15:30] Look at these
[15:31] numbers. Percentage 50
[15:32] days, 100, 91, 98.
[15:33] Look at the
[15:34] RSI averages. Average RSI.
[15:36] Everything was above the 50 level.
[15:38] That's where
[15:39] this
[15:40] week's readings came in. Look
[15:41] how low these
[15:42] numbers are. Percentage above the
[15:43] 50-day. We
[15:44] really sold out here.
[15:46] One index is still
[15:47] higher, but the RSI averages are
[15:48] now there and we still
[15:49] have constructive
[15:51] trends. None of the
[15:52] technological
[15:52] models have changed.
[15:54] I will look into this as well.
[15:55] The rating is good. So,
[15:57] this is a good entry point.
[15:59] Hmm, I'm showing this, uh,
[16:00] again, I showed how to
[16:01] do this, and I'm going to
[16:02] wrap up this video for
[16:03] you guys in
[16:04] terms of how you
[16:05] can do this
[16:06] yourself
[16:07] using Claude
[16:08] Co-work, just by updating
[16:09] the files. But this was
[16:10] day 20 of my
[16:11] thematic
[16:12] portfolio of 100 names.
[16:13] 73 of the 100 names were above the
[16:15] 20-day mark on
[16:16] May 8. We got down
[16:18] to 21 on Wednesday when I
[16:19] did a webinar for
[16:22] subscribers to
[16:23] basically update the stock
[16:24] to give people
[16:25] an idea of ​​where we
[16:26] are. Uh, I
[16:27] like to see
[16:28] growth at the end of the
[16:29] week. We went from
[16:31] 21 to 31. That looks exactly like an
[16:33] oversold level. I
[16:34] mentioned last
[16:35] week that when we
[16:36] go down, or I
[16:36] mentioned this week,
[16:38] when we go down
[16:39] below 40, I'm really
[16:39] interested in, uh, the
[16:40] percentage above the 50-
[16:41] day, and
[16:42] most importantly, above the 200-
[16:43] day. This is
[16:43] back to the
[16:45] same level it
[16:46] ended at on the 26th
[16:47] . But these levels, the 50-
[16:48] day moving average, are
[16:50] still at 76, and the 200-
[16:51] day moving average,
[16:52] which is critical,
[16:54] i.e. the structural
[16:55] situation of the bull
[16:56] market, is still at
[16:58] 86 out of 100 items.
[16:59] We saw a massive
[17:01] inflow of shares on SOXX
[17:04] and SKHEX today,
[17:05] offering over seven
[17:07] times the number of
[17:08] shares subscribed.
[17:09] They also
[17:10] traded
[17:10] higher. Here are
[17:12] the facts about memory
[17:13] over the last
[17:14] three months, uh,
[17:15] just in terms of
[17:16] what's been happening. The
[17:18] memory chip crisis
[17:19] will last until 2030.
[17:21] This was back during
[17:22] its
[17:23] earnings report on March 16.
[17:25] If you thought
[17:26] something would change, here's
[17:27] what he said
[17:28] today. Okay, the
[17:30] memory chip shortage that's plagued the
[17:31] markets for computers,
[17:32] cars, and other
[17:34] devices is likely
[17:35] to continue beyond
[17:36] 2030. So, we have
[17:37] moved on to the period
[17:39] up to 2030. Customers
[17:40] sign
[17:41] long-term
[17:41] contracts. I have
[17:42] n't seen this before, but
[17:43] remember that
[17:44] Micron Inc.'s long-term supply agreement.
[17:45] worth over
[17:46] $100 billion,
[17:46] claims
[17:47] the company has no
[17:47] idea when the
[17:49] RAM crisis will end.
[17:50] That was less than a month
[17:51] ago. In fact, it
[17:52] was less than three
[17:53] weeks ago. And
[17:55] Dylan Patel's memory capacity
[17:56] will only grow by
[17:57] 20-30% per year for the
[17:59] next three
[18:00] years. This concerns
[18:01] human resources.
[18:03] Demand is doubling. This is an
[18:04] exponential
[18:05] demand for memory. Memory prices
[18:07] will continue
[18:08] to rise. This is from an
[18:09] interview that I
[18:10] will review, which
[18:11] came out today.
[18:15] Remember, Elon Musk
[18:17] is building a terraab because
[18:18] he says there won't be enough
[18:19] memory or chips
[18:21] for his humanoids
[18:22] and the demand he
[18:24] sees by 2030. I'm
[18:28] going to talk
[18:29] about this further. I show
[18:30] you these things because it is the
[18:31] reality of where
[18:32] we are right now.
[18:34] So I want to make this very
[18:35] clear, because I've had a
[18:36] lot of people
[18:37] , and I think it's because a
[18:39] lot of people on Next have
[18:40] said that it's just
[18:41] like fracking. This will
[18:42] explode. The only thing that is
[18:44] similar to fracking is
[18:45] the number of people who
[18:47] say it's just
[18:48] like fracking. So, here's the
[18:49] normal cycle to AI
[18:53] . And I say AI because
[18:55] this is a typical
[18:57] demand cycle for hardware-
[18:58] driven demand
[18:59] . So, hardware-
[19:01] oriented demand
[19:02] means physical things.
[19:04] So if demand
[19:05] is driven by physical
[19:06] output, and memory is a
[19:07] physical output, it's
[19:08] very difficult to significantly
[19:09] distance demand from
[19:11] capacity. If
[19:14] the demand is now digital,
[19:16] and it's tokens, and it's
[19:17] growing solely based on
[19:18] the performance of the
[19:19] models, but we
[19:20] need more
[19:21] memory, the capacity
[19:22] can't grow
[19:23] faster. The only way
[19:27] to solve this problem
[19:28] is through
[19:29] algorithmic
[19:30] efficiency, and at
[19:34] this point trying to
[19:35] do that to
[19:36] bring it to market
[19:37] for everyone is
[19:38] simply unlikely.
[19:39] Will this be a happy
[19:40] event? Will
[19:41] it happen eventually? I am
[19:42] sure that will be the case
[19:43] . I don't think it's
[19:45] going to reach a new level
[19:46] anytime soon,
[19:47] especially when I
[19:47] consider what's
[19:48] next. So you have to
[19:49] remember that the difference is
[19:51] this.
[19:52] This is the old world. This is a
[19:53] new world. This is
[19:54] exponential
[19:55] growth. This becomes
[19:56] important when you
[19:57] start dealing with
[19:58] consumer agents,
[19:59] fully
[19:59] self-driving
[20:01] vehicles, and
[20:01] humanoids. All of
[20:02] them have a higher demand for
[20:03] tokens than what we
[20:04] have now. Just like
[20:06] in Chat. We
[20:07] had no problems with Chat.
[20:08] We
[20:10] only had a problem when we
[20:11] entered this period
[20:12] , when it became obvious
[20:13] that we were starting
[20:14] to reach the part of the
[20:15] growth curve that was out
[20:16] of control
[20:18] . That's why, if
[20:20] you compare it to the
[20:21] oil market, it's ridiculous.
[20:23] We had a parabolic
[20:25] or exponential
[20:26] movement on the supply side
[20:27] . There was no movement on the demand side
[20:29] . So, again
[20:30] , for anyone who
[20:31] wants to compare these two
[20:32] , for any
[20:33] smart oil guy
[20:34] or smart person
[20:35] who keeps telling
[20:36] me this is the same as
[20:37] this, I've seen this
[20:38] before. You have
[20:39] n't seen this before because
[20:40] the demand isn't coming
[20:42] from people. The demand
[20:43] comes from
[20:44] computers. It
[20:45] comes from
[20:45] artificial
[20:46] intelligence agents. This has
[20:47] nothing to do with
[20:48] people. People
[20:49] move linearly. It is
[20:51] very important that
[20:52] people start to
[20:53] realize this. This is what a
[20:55] bull market is all about. That's
[20:57] why I do this.
[20:58] My next
[20:59] webinar will be on
[21:00] July 15th, next
[21:02] week. I will specifically
[21:03] look at names in the
[21:04] portfolio that I
[21:05] believe have reached levels
[21:07] that make sense. I'll
[21:08] go over the
[21:08] concentrated basket
[21:10] , all 10 names, and
[21:11] give you guys
[21:12] the details about it. That's what the
[21:14] concentrated basket has done now
[21:15] . So, we have reached the 50-
[21:17] day moving
[21:18] average. We did
[21:19] that back on March 2nd and
[21:20] then we had the
[21:20] next uptrend, we
[21:21] hit the RSI, you guys
[21:22] can go back and
[21:24] look and when the RSI
[21:25] drops here the
[21:25] risk/reward
[21:26] will change. So while I
[21:27] thought there was a
[21:29] mid-cycle slowdown, we
[21:30] actually went sideways
[21:31] during that
[21:32] period. Now we
[21:33] can
[21:33] reboot and
[21:34] continue. I have
[21:35] significantly reduced my
[21:36] position in many of
[21:37] these things, the largest
[21:39] of which is Micron. I
[21:39] left some things
[21:41] unchanged. I transferred
[21:42] some things to silver
[21:43] and bitcoin which didn't
[21:44] work out too well. I'll
[21:45] go back now and look at
[21:46] some of these names and
[21:47] pick out the ones that fit
[21:48] into the concentrated
[21:49] basket. So, that's the
[21:50] whole point of helping you
[21:51] guys, not just from
[21:52] one side, but from the
[21:53] other. If you
[21:54] guys follow
[21:55] me on X, I
[21:56] posted this the
[21:57] same day I was
[21:58] hosting a webinar for
[21:59] subscribers. Nvidia
[22:00] peaked on May 14
[22:01] , three weeks before the peak of
[22:04] AI infrastructure trading.
[22:06] So, again,
[22:07] if I go
[22:08] back and look at
[22:09] mid-May, and
[22:10] actually go past that, that's when
[22:11] we
[22:12] saw the peak of the rate of
[22:14] change and when it started to
[22:15] slow down. Well,
[22:17] Nvidia peaked
[22:18] earlier and more than a
[22:20] month before SMH and the peak of
[22:21] memory names.
[22:22] Today
[22:23] is expected to
[22:24] close above the 20-
[22:25] day moving
[22:26] average for the first time since June 2, keeping the
[22:27] 200-day indicator and
[22:28] MACD buy signal at their
[22:29] lowest levels in a
[22:31] decade. This is one
[22:33] of 10 titles. So, in the
[22:34] consensus basket,
[22:36] Nvidia is one of the names.
[22:37] So again, for
[22:38] RAAS and for anyone who is
[22:39] new to this, if
[22:40] you want to get in touch,
[22:41] here is the website where you
[22:42] can find it. You
[22:44] can always
[22:44] reach Mark
[22:45] Weiling at
[22:46] 22V. He will help you with
[22:48] anything you
[22:49] need, especially
[22:50] regarding RAIA. This is where I
[22:51] want to look at the
[22:53] token spending index because as I
[22:54] showed earlier,
[22:55] if you go through
[22:57] the flows and spending
[22:58] on the previous
[22:59] chart that I
[22:59] showed with everything
[23:01] related to that,
[23:01] including the AI ​​topics, I
[23:03] highlighted back here in
[23:04] mid-May when
[23:05] Nvidia peaked that
[23:06] this would be a growing
[23:07] risk not because it's
[23:09] negative but because the
[23:10] narrative is starting
[23:11] to change, and that's what
[23:12] we've seen. The narrative
[23:14] has changed. So,
[23:15] let's look at
[23:16] this. The first growth in the
[23:18] token index was the
[23:19] shock of the capabilities of
[23:20] coding agents.
[23:21] Then we had OpenClaw.
[23:23] So OpenClaw led to
[23:24] more
[23:25] users immediately
[23:26] starting to
[23:27] use
[23:28] agents that happened to
[23:29] be AI native or
[23:30] Chinese. OpenClaw was a
[23:33] big gamer, but
[23:34] this was a difficult
[23:35] level. So most of the
[23:38] token usage went to
[23:39] a lot of
[23:40] open source stuff.
[23:41] Then businesses
[23:42] finally realized
[23:43] they were missing something.
[23:44] So FOMO (fear of
[23:45] missing out),
[23:47] and everywhere, whether it's Anthropics,
[23:48] ARR, everything started to see the
[23:50] growth of
[23:52] maximizing functionality from there.
[23:53] Token maximization
[23:54] has become a buzzword. Everyone
[23:56] was on the side of
[23:56] research spending
[23:58] . Then they saw the
[23:59] account shock and the
[24:00] token index plummet.
[24:02] Not because everyone is
[24:03] saved, partly
[24:04] because of
[24:05] graduation. All these
[24:06] different things I was
[24:07] talking about. This is when
[24:08] usage starts
[24:09] to be driven more by
[24:10] people
[24:10] using
[24:11] open source
[24:11] software, which doesn't
[24:12] stop companies
[24:13] using
[24:13] artificial intelligence.
[24:14] College students are
[24:15] stopping by. People at
[24:16] Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs,
[24:17] places that I know, well,
[24:19] 20% of the people on vacation
[24:20] either work
[24:20] remotely or they
[24:22] don't work on
[24:22] Fridays. In
[24:23] any case, you won't have
[24:24] as many people
[24:25] using
[24:26] these things as there
[24:27] were here. And the shock of the
[24:28] bill began.
[24:29] The problem is that
[24:30] all of this analysis and everything
[24:31] that goes through it
[24:32] doesn't take into account
[24:33] the amount of implementation
[24:34] that is still
[24:35] happening. We
[24:36] are undergoing mass
[24:37] implementation. This is not an
[24:39] indicator of making
[24:40] or losing money, as I
[24:41] will show with the example of
[24:42] Dylan Patel. So,
[24:44] again, the
[24:45] exponential
[24:46] usage of tokens
[24:47] due to memory shortages
[24:49] is increasing day by day
[24:50] . I've heard people
[24:51] argue with me
[24:52] that no one is
[24:52] going to
[24:53] use the
[24:54] most expensive stuff. This is a
[24:55] pile of garbage. If you
[24:58] want to listen to
[24:59] someone who talks
[25:00] about this, and I think
[25:01] always does well
[25:02] in
[25:03] interviews, this came out
[25:04] today. Dylan
[25:05] Patel, or probably
[25:06] Thursday, late. Uh,
[25:09] Dylan Patel about the
[25:10] wisdom tree in
[25:11] Europe. Good
[25:13] interview, I think. The
[25:14] main points
[25:16] I have here: Patel
[25:17] argues that the
[25:17] debate over AI ROA
[25:20] fails to take into account how
[25:21] quickly serious
[25:22] users are
[25:22] increasing
[25:24] token spending, and he
[25:25] reiterates that
[25:26] semi-analytics spending
[25:27] has gone from less than $100,000 to $
[25:30] 100,000 in November,
[25:31] which is very similar to my
[25:32] story: he was paying
[25:33] everyone in the firm for a
[25:35] $200,000 Claude model.
[25:36] Once Claude Code started
[25:38] working after Opus 4.5
[25:39] and building things, that's when
[25:40] they
[25:41] moved to the
[25:42] token spending side and
[25:44] everyone started
[25:44] spending there. By January,
[25:46] it was already
[25:47] $4 million a
[25:48] year. Today, that's
[25:51] about
[25:52] $11 million a
[25:53] year, and peak
[25:54] week was the
[25:55] equivalent of $14
[25:56] million. This is for a
[25:57] company with 90 people.
[25:59] Companies are spending
[26:00] budgets on
[26:01] AI, but the
[26:02] right
[26:02] answer may be to
[26:03] cut other
[26:04] costs on SAS or
[26:04] legacy systems,
[26:05] not cut AI.
[26:06] The right
[26:07] model choice depends on the
[26:08] workload.
[26:09] Cheaper models for
[26:10] fixed
[26:11] workflows, the
[26:11] smartest models
[26:12] for
[26:13] assistants. In this
[26:14] part, I have to
[26:15] listen to it. For
[26:16] assistant-style work, the
[26:17] smartest model
[26:18] can be generally
[26:19] cheaper because
[26:20] it uses
[26:21] fewer tokens, fewer
[26:22] iterations, and less
[26:23] human time. That's
[26:24] why, when you look at the
[26:25] labor market, we have
[26:27] weekly hours. If
[26:28] you can complete
[26:29] a task in a tenth of the
[26:30] time, but
[26:30] spend
[26:31] more money doing it, then that's how
[26:32] it should
[26:33] work. So the
[26:34] gist of it is that
[26:35] we're at
[26:36] a point where
[26:36] businesses
[26:37] are trying
[26:37] to figure out what to do,
[26:38] how much they should
[26:39] use for
[26:40] workflows, which
[26:41] will be much
[26:42] cheaper, and how much
[26:42] they should
[26:43] use for
[26:45] assistant-style work. You don't
[26:46] hire all the people from the
[26:47] most expensive colleges
[26:48] with the best resumes.
[26:51] The team at the firm
[26:52] is divided into many
[26:53] different areas. You
[26:54] hire younger
[26:55] people who are cheaper
[26:56] than people with experience
[26:57] in the field.
[26:58] This is how AI will work
[26:59] . He considers that
[27:00] memory is no longer a
[27:01] conventional commodity
[27:02] cycle. If you
[27:03] don't believe me, he
[27:04] gives more
[27:05] technical reasons. He
[27:06] expects memory prices
[27:07] to continue
[27:08] to rise until AI
[27:09] becomes mainstream
[27:09] , and consumer
[27:10] devices like
[27:11] smartphones and
[27:12] laptops are
[27:12] forced to absorb the
[27:13] higher prices. Essentially,
[27:14] he's saying the same thing as
[27:16] Samsung. We have
[27:17] a shortage when our
[27:18] phones, cars,
[27:19] PCs, we don't have enough
[27:21] memory. So demand is
[27:22] not just coming from
[27:23] hyperscalers for
[27:25] data centers. It comes
[27:26] from everyone. He is
[27:27] optimistic about
[27:28] processors. There's
[27:29] something going on with the processors.
[27:30] I think this is
[27:31] also worth
[27:32] listening to. As far as
[27:34] power goes, I
[27:35] think he's the best
[27:36] at what he
[27:36] does. I
[27:37] have used
[27:38] his services a lot. I
[27:39] referenced
[27:40] him a lot. This was another
[27:41] great performance.
[27:42] Essentially, what he
[27:43] said in the
[27:44] brief as I
[27:45] listened to it and discussed it is
[27:46] that we
[27:46] find a way to
[27:47] get gigawatts,
[27:48] even if it
[27:48] means using
[27:49] diesel engines from
[27:50] trucks, boats,
[27:51] trains,
[27:51] converted to
[27:52] generate
[27:53] electricity. You
[27:54] have to listen to this
[27:55] to understand that
[27:56] if you thought
[27:57] we were going to run out of
[27:57] computing
[27:58] resources because people
[27:59] were going to shut down
[28:00] data centers,
[28:01] that's not true. He went
[28:03] through it, and obviously
[28:04] I'm sure he's an
[28:05] investor, but if not,
[28:07] he obviously has
[28:08] access. You're hearing more and more
[28:10] about Anthropic
[28:12] being
[28:13] cash flow positive or
[28:14] at least achieving
[28:15] operating
[28:16] profit. Again
[28:18] , this just
[28:19] means that
[28:20] profitability is
[28:21] coming in and RAIC
[28:22] shouldn't be there, from a
[28:23] fear perspective.
[28:25] But I made it about the
[28:26] air pocket of
[28:26] capital spending
[28:27] on AI. If you guys were
[28:29] n't reading this because of
[28:30] the holidays, I would go
[28:31] read it. I spent
[28:32] some time, I
[28:33] spent a lot of time
[28:34] on consumer agents,
[28:35] but I really spent
[28:36] time on this
[28:37] Mark Zuckerberg town hall that
[28:38] supposedly acknowledged that
[28:39] Meta Zentic AI progress was
[28:40] slower than
[28:41] expected. And I
[28:43] argue that if
[28:44] they eventually
[28:45] sell any of
[28:46] their capital
[28:47] capacity, it will be
[28:48] because they cannot yet
[28:49] get their
[28:51] consumer agents
[28:52] to work the way
[28:53] they want. It's
[28:55] coming, guys.
[28:57] And if you want
[28:58] to listen, it came out the
[28:59] day before. Meta or two
[29:01] days ago.
[29:03] Meta's CTO, Andrew
[29:04] Bosworth, was with Alex
[29:05] Kanantrowitz. This is a
[29:06] great interview and
[29:07] very easy
[29:08] to listen to. The industry is
[29:10] moving beyond
[29:11] one giant
[29:12] monolithic model. I
[29:13] think he's talking
[29:14] about
[29:15] open source and
[29:16] models at the edge of
[29:17] possibilities.
[29:18] Consumer AI has been
[29:19] slow because
[29:19] products are still
[29:20] too complex to
[29:21] use. This is a
[29:22] really
[29:23] critical piece,
[29:24] especially for
[29:25] mutual funds and
[29:26] long-term
[29:26] investors, to
[29:27] spend time
[29:28] understanding how
[29:29] consumer agents
[29:30] will change the world, which is a
[29:31] dramatic shift.
[29:32] Whatever happened to
[29:33] coding agents,
[29:34] as far as agent language is concerned
[29:36] , it's much
[29:37] more. This is much more
[29:39] important in
[29:40] importance than opus 4.5.
[29:42] So think about it this
[29:43] way. All we've
[29:44] done is increase the
[29:45] coding capabilities
[29:46] , but we haven't found a
[29:48] way to go
[29:49] through all of that yet. It is
[29:51] incredibly important
[29:52] to understand what this
[29:53] means. Consumer AI
[29:55] has been slow
[29:56] because the product level is still
[29:57] immature, not because
[29:58] the model is weak. For
[29:59] consumer
[30:00] AI to work,
[30:01] it needs to disappear into
[30:02] everyday life,
[30:03] like map searches,
[30:04] messaging,
[30:05] or the camera.
[30:07] I'm using
[30:08] my Grock in my Tesla this week. I
[30:10] talked to him during the
[30:11] trip, throughout the
[30:13] entire trip. I
[30:14] can't do it with a
[30:15] phone the same way.
[30:16] It's not that good until
[30:17] we get to the
[30:18] point where you
[30:19] talk to it like
[30:20] you would
[30:22] with Alexa, where you can
[30:22] sit back, cook, and
[30:23] ask it
[30:24] questions about the recipe.
[30:25] So you don't have to
[30:26] reach for your
[30:27] phone, you don't
[30:28] have to look at
[30:28] it. Until we
[30:29] reach this
[30:30] point, which will come
[30:31] soon, it is
[30:32] very difficult
[30:33] to form a habit.
[30:34] But once that
[30:34] happens, billions of
[30:36] users will start
[30:37] having agents
[30:38] working for them,
[30:39] and they will start giving
[30:40] them tasks, but they
[30:41] need context,
[30:42] trust, time, permissions.
[30:44] This is extremely
[30:45] difficult, and
[30:46] frontier models are not capable of
[30:47] it. The token curve
[30:49] is changing because of all
[30:50] this. Frequency increases,
[30:51] context length
[30:52] decreases,
[30:53] multi-step
[30:54] thinking through everything
[30:55] you need here.
[30:57] Everything will be there. Every
[30:59] thing that is the next
[31:00] function. When
[31:01] the problem of AI interface
[31:03] for consumers is
[31:04] solved,
[31:04] the use of tokens
[31:05] should increase dramatically. AI
[31:06] is moving from something that
[31:07] people
[31:08] call upon occasionally to something
[31:09] that runs in the background
[31:10] . So it exists
[31:12] before the advent of mobile
[31:13] data for the iPhone, but
[31:14] usage
[31:15] is limited by friction.
[31:16] You need to
[31:17] go back and
[31:18] think about what
[31:18] happened to
[31:20] bandwidth and what
[31:20] will happen to
[31:21] consumer agents
[31:22] . The problem is that what
[31:23] happened to the
[31:24] bandwidth
[31:25] , again, and
[31:26] getting it
[31:27] was very
[31:28] slow. Once
[31:29] we get to
[31:30] the phone and we're
[31:31] getting closer and I'll
[31:32] show you not only that
[31:33] this is all meta-
[31:34] side, but you
[31:35] need to look at
[31:36] what happened to
[31:37] Apple stock because Apple
[31:38] is also a part of this
[31:39] through the phone. So once
[31:41] that happens,
[31:42] they will start
[31:43] consuming a huge
[31:44] amount of tokens.
[31:48] So the coder agents
[31:49] were the first visible
[31:51] token explosion, and
[31:52] they will consume
[31:53] another thousand tokens.
[31:56] That's why once we
[31:57] got to the
[31:59] coding side of Opus 4.5,
[32:00] everyone had to
[32:01] adapt.
[32:02] Consumer agents,
[32:04] larger
[32:04] user base,
[32:05] smaller at first.
[32:07] Goldman reportedly
[32:08] estimated that AI agents
[32:10] could increase
[32:11] token consumption
[32:13] by about 24 times, to
[32:14] about 120
[32:15] quadrillion per
[32:18] month. FSD robo-taxis are
[32:22] not tokens in the sense of an
[32:24] API, but huge
[32:25] video computations. Um,
[32:27] Elon Musk was talking about
[32:28] getting to the point
[32:30] where it would fully
[32:31] work. We
[32:36] need to
[32:37] work a lot, a lot, and that's why
[32:38] I
[32:39] looked at a lot of visual
[32:41] VLMs, not LLMs. Humanoids—
[32:44] this is again a
[32:45] combination of VLM, but
[32:46] the step function is
[32:47] huge in
[32:48] terms of what you'll
[32:49] need in terms of
[32:50] computational
[32:51] resources. If you have
[32:53] n't watched it yet,
[32:54] you should. We have a
[32:56] much higher
[32:57] demand for computing.
[32:58] So, again,
[32:59] encoding agents and
[33:00] then
[33:01] consumer agents. That's why
[33:02] we're in the first
[33:03] inning now. This
[33:04] only started at the beginning of this
[33:06] year. And you can
[33:07] look at
[33:08] Dylan
[33:09] Patel's answer. Only
[33:10] five months have passed. We
[33:11] are in the
[33:12] early stages of
[33:12] what will
[33:13] take us five
[33:14] years to achieve
[33:15] . If we do it
[33:16] on a time
[33:17] basis only, we barely
[33:17] made it to the first
[33:18] inning. It
[33:19] will just continue.
[33:20] The demand for computing
[33:21] is exponential
[33:22] because each wave
[33:23] changes the unit of
[33:24] consumption. It
[33:25] grows
[33:25] exponentially
[33:26] because each
[33:27] opportunity threshold creates a
[33:28] new surface of
[33:29] consumption. That's why
[33:30] people can't keep up with it
[33:31] . We are used to
[33:32] seeing linear changes.
[33:34] We think of
[33:35] memory in a linear
[33:36] structure. They
[33:38] wrote a positive
[33:39] article on meta. Uh, I'm
[33:41] more interested in this
[33:42] consumer
[33:43] agent thing and the
[33:45] growth potential. And in particular,
[33:47] I just want to
[33:47] raise this issue.
[33:49] This is Apple's stock price
[33:50] when we hit
[33:51] all-time
[33:51] highs. We
[33:52] actually closed
[33:53] at all-time
[33:54] highs yesterday based on
[33:55] the close. This
[33:56] was when they
[33:57] made their
[33:58] announcement about
[33:58] Siri artificial intelligence.
[34:00] It has reached a
[34:00] historic
[34:01] high. She
[34:02] sold out. It was an
[34:03] event that sold
[34:04] news. This was something that
[34:05] looked bearish to me
[34:06] , except for
[34:07] the fact that we
[34:08] broke through the 200-day
[34:09] mark. So, we
[34:10] trade down not for one
[34:11] day, but for two days. We have a
[34:12] very weak rebound.
[34:14] Then we go down, and
[34:15] on this day, this very
[34:16] day, they announced a
[34:19] 20% price increase because of
[34:20] memory prices. We know that
[34:22] fewer phones will be sold. So
[34:23] what's going on?
[34:25] It is returning to
[34:25] historical
[34:26] highs. When I
[34:27] start seeing this kind of
[34:28] activity and reading
[34:30] about consumer
[34:31] agents coming in and these stocks being
[34:32] expensive based on the
[34:33] PEG ratio, I
[34:34] start to think there's a lot more to
[34:36] this story
[34:37] than what's
[34:38] going on.
[34:39] Now, if you don't
[34:40] believe what I
[34:41] just said, in
[34:43] terms of all the things about the
[34:44] future, you don't
[34:45] believe in humanoids,
[34:46] you don't believe in
[34:47] consumer agents, you
[34:48] think it's going to take
[34:49] years, you
[34:50] don't think Meta
[34:51] is doing any of the things
[34:52] I said for these
[34:53] reasons, I'm just
[34:54] tired of hearing that there's too much
[34:55] capacity
[34:56] . When Microsoft said it all in its
[34:58] latest
[34:59] earnings report, strong
[35:00] customer demand
[35:01] continued
[35:01] to exceed
[35:02] capacity. Google's allocation of
[35:03] computing
[35:04] resources
[35:05] follows a
[35:05] robust ROIC system,
[35:06] meaning they
[35:07] only allocate to
[35:08] places where they can
[35:09] generate revenue. Um,
[35:10] Tranium is largely
[35:11] sold out. Tranium 3 is
[35:12] almost fully
[35:13] subscribed with a significant
[35:13] portion of Tranium already
[35:14] reserved. Meta
[35:15] stated that it had
[35:16] limited
[35:16] computing
[35:17] resources and
[35:18] underestimated the demand for
[35:19] computing
[35:19] resources. Again,
[35:21] this is from the latest
[35:22] earnings report. So, it
[35:23] wasn't that long ago. The
[35:24] order book
[35:28] they have
[35:30] is 627
[35:31] billion for Microsoft,
[35:33] 462 billion for Google, 225
[35:35] billion for Amazon and
[35:37] 638 billion for Oracle.
[35:41] There is demand, guys, it
[35:42] already is. Um, if you don't
[35:44] believe that, let's
[35:45] just look at the
[35:46] prices of
[35:47] GPUs. As
[35:49] Dylan Patel said in
[35:49] an interview, he said
[35:50] that processors could
[35:51] reach a price point where
[35:52] they would
[35:53] actually start working in
[35:54] GPUs
[35:55] . We simply don't have enough of them
[35:56] . We still
[35:57] have them, we still
[35:58] see a need for them
[35:59] as we build
[36:00] data centers,
[36:02] and that
[36:02] will continue.
[36:03] So we simply don't
[36:04] see the need for
[36:05] rent. Uh, this is what
[36:10] bullish oil curves should look like.
[36:14] Again, the
[36:15] rent curve. This is from
[36:16] a semi-analysis, guys
[36:18] just
[36:18] using
[36:19] silicon data, according to
[36:21] our data, the
[36:22] compute market continues
[36:23] to grow. As
[36:26] for the
[36:28] capex build-up,
[36:30] the latest
[36:31] semi-analysis forecast
[36:32] is 11.1
[36:33] trillion, well
[36:35] above
[36:36] Goldman
[36:37] Sachs' 7.6 trillion, and almost everyone else
[36:39] doesn't have numbers that
[36:40] extend to that.
[36:42] Here are their numbers. So,
[36:43] again, you
[36:44] get this big
[36:45] step function.
[36:47] This is g, the second derivative
[36:48] comes into play. We won't
[36:49] get a doubling.
[36:50] We will get
[36:51] slow growth
[36:52] each year, but
[36:53] the numbers are huge.
[36:54] The costs are huge and
[36:55] it's just going to take all
[36:56] this time. JP Morgan
[36:57] published something
[36:59] this week. Again
[37:00] , there are several
[37:01] ways to look
[37:02] at this. Uh, everything is bullish.
[37:05] So when you
[37:06] look at things and
[37:07] realize that this is all
[37:08] bullish and we're in a
[37:09] race around the
[37:10] world, it's
[37:11] just not
[37:12] slowing down,
[37:13] guys. Um, regarding
[37:14] the use of tokens
[37:15] , I think that was a
[37:16] good article. So,
[37:17] Aaron Levy
[37:18] published it.
[37:19] Great post on
[37:20] how to think about
[37:20] open source AI and
[37:21] application layer AI.
[37:22] Two things
[37:23] will always be true in AI.
[37:24] Advanced intelligence is
[37:25] likely
[37:25] to remain at the
[37:26] forefront.
[37:27] Again,
[37:27] think about what
[37:28] Dylan Patel said
[37:29] about solving
[37:29] completely new
[37:30] use cases and will
[37:31] often
[37:31] be used
[37:32] to orchestrate and
[37:33] schedule
[37:34] any type of complex
[37:35] workflow. I do
[37:35] n't know how this can
[37:37] be a shock to people.
[37:39] The best intelligence
[37:40] will always be used
[37:41] by businesses
[37:42] for at least
[37:43] part of what
[37:44] happens. And in
[37:45] many cases
[37:46] it will be cheaper. And that's exactly where the
[37:49] difference lies. At the same time,
[37:50] as
[37:50] use cases become
[37:51] mature and
[37:52] predictable and
[37:53] turn into
[37:53] workflows, yes,
[37:54] you will
[37:55] use
[37:55] lower or close
[37:56] models. Yes, I'm already
[37:57] doing that. Like most
[37:59] people. This is not something new
[38:00] . If you want
[38:02] to read the story, it's
[38:03] by Jesse Zang. And
[38:04] again, we
[38:05] run 90% of our
[38:06] workloads
[38:07] on
[38:08] open source models, not
[38:09] open AI or
[38:10] man-made. This is
[38:10] consistent with
[38:11] most companies
[38:12] developing
[38:13] hyper-productive
[38:14] applications.
[38:14] Businesses won't
[38:15] reach this figure for
[38:16] some time yet. They
[38:17] will still have the
[38:18] best models. They will still
[38:20] try to
[38:21] focus on these
[38:22] things. But ultimately,
[38:22] as they become
[38:23] more complex to
[38:24] achieve,
[38:24] enterprise spending
[38:25] as a whole moves in the
[38:26] opposite
[38:26] direction than spending by
[38:27] firms
[38:27] using
[38:28] AI.
[38:28] Open
[38:30] source models just fell to
[38:31] 11% of enterprise spending
[38:33] from 19%. The article
[38:33] argues that
[38:34] popular native
[38:35] open source is
[38:35] devouring enterprises
[38:36] , which is the right
[38:37] direction in
[38:37] the long
[38:38] term, but
[38:39] wrong in
[38:39] current
[38:40] spending data. Closed
[38:41] models dominate the
[38:42] early stages of
[38:43] detection. Open
[38:44] source wins in the
[38:45] later stages of
[38:45] production. More
[38:47] about
[38:48] token budgeting. The same from
[38:50] semi-analysis,
[38:51] Dylan Patel's group. And
[38:53] again, you
[38:54] can see that everyone
[38:56] is spending more on
[38:57] AI. This does not change.
[38:59] We don't see any
[39:00] decline. Palantir
[39:01] speaks its own language,
[39:03] but I think it's
[39:04] worth reading. Uh,
[39:05] they published it
[39:06] this week. He
[39:07] tried everywhere
[39:08] to prove that you want
[39:09] to own your own
[39:10] things before
[39:10] anthropogenic and
[39:11] open AI
[39:12] steals them. Uh,
[39:13] obviously he's
[39:14] saying something. This name is
[39:15] still in my
[39:16] portfolio of 100 names.
[39:18] I still
[39:19] own it too. Um, it's been a
[39:20] long time. I...I
[39:22] bought it
[39:23] for about 130. It's still
[39:24] worth about 130. Uh,
[39:25] and I bought it
[39:26] back, I think, on the
[39:29] first quarter earnings report, which
[39:30] was around
[39:31] February, I think
[39:32] early February, when
[39:34] I was on a business trip.
[39:35] So, it's
[39:36] consolidating, and it
[39:37] looks like
[39:37] consolidation, but I
[39:38] agree that a lot of
[39:40] places are taking
[39:41] Palunteer seriously and
[39:42] really doing what they
[39:43] say. So it's worth
[39:44] a look. Um, I'm not
[39:46] going to read all of
[39:47] it because you guys
[39:48] can review,
[39:49] but I think there are
[39:50] a lot of good
[39:51] points here that are
[39:52] important. 5.6 was released
[39:53] this week. Uh, I
[39:55] hardly
[39:56] used it. Very
[39:57] impressed. Many of
[39:58] the reviews were
[39:59] excellent. I will take my
[40:00] time with this. Uh, this
[40:02] story
[40:03] interested me. I didn't
[40:04] spend
[40:05] enough time on it. Um,
[40:06] but basically we're
[40:08] starting to get
[40:09] to that point with
[40:10] artificial intelligence
[40:11] where the
[40:12] conscious side comes in. Um, I
[40:14] think that's very
[40:15] interesting. If there's
[40:16] anything useful there, I'll
[40:17] include it, but I haven't
[40:18] spent enough
[40:20] time. I listened to
[40:21] this week's episode of Moonshots
[40:22] , in which I
[40:23] had nothing to
[40:24] offer you.
[40:25] Um, and they talked
[40:26] about it, and I watched
[40:28] some videos and stuff,
[40:29] but nothing major.
[40:31] Um, I'm coming back here
[40:32] because this is the start of something
[40:34] that is mandatory for all of you
[40:35] . Um,
[40:38] I very rarely say that. I
[40:39] know most
[40:41] people listening, uh
[40:42] , have views on
[40:43] Bitcoin. They have
[40:45] views on
[40:45] cryptocurrency. They are not
[40:47] the same. Traditional
[40:48] financiers, I'm
[40:49] sure, are more
[40:50] negative, and crypto
[40:51] people watching
[40:52] this video are more
[40:54] positive. Well, here's the
[40:55] thing. You've already
[40:57] passed the point of
[40:57] ignoring this. And the
[40:59] AO macrolink was
[41:00] two things. This was the
[41:01] turning point
[41:02] that artificial
[41:03] intelligence would have in
[41:04] impacting the
[41:04] traditional world. How will
[41:05] it affect
[41:06] the economy, government
[41:07] decisions, how will it affect
[41:09] profits, how will it
[41:10] affect stocks. All
[41:11] this has already happened. Each
[41:12] of these things and the reason
[41:14] I decided to
[41:15] do it has already happened.
[41:16] Once we got
[41:17] to consumer agents, the
[41:18] next step
[41:19] was that financial
[41:20] barriers changed, and
[41:21] that would be one of the
[41:22] most important things
[41:23] in the history of the world. We have
[41:25] been working in this
[41:26] banking system for a very, very long time.
[41:28] Swift has been around for a very,
[41:30] very long time. This is all
[41:31] ending. Everything
[41:32] changes. Everything
[41:34] is transforming. And
[41:35] you can make
[41:36] and lose money on this. And that's the
[41:38] next
[41:39] step, and that's why I'm
[41:40] launching a new
[41:41] YouTube channel, starting
[41:42] with the crypto side
[41:44] , spending
[41:44] at least 20 of the 30
[41:45] minutes that I plan to
[41:46] do on what's
[41:47] going on
[41:48] inside
[41:48] cryptocurrency, so that
[41:49] people can learn
[41:51] how to talk
[41:51] conventionally in
[41:52] cryptocurrency, how to
[41:53] talk about
[41:54] tokenization, how to
[41:55] talk about
[41:55] stablecoins, how to
[41:56] talk in a new
[41:57] payment system.
[41:59] So, Matt Hogan,
[42:00] who I really love and
[42:02] I've been on a panel with him before
[42:03] , posted
[42:06] this and it just
[42:07] piqued my interest. It
[42:08] was on Wednesday. I did,
[42:10] and it has to do with
[42:11] a speech Scott
[42:12] Bessett gave, which he
[42:13] seems to have given at the
[42:18] Economic Club of New York. In
[42:19] this speech, he
[42:20] said: "Digital
[42:21] assets,
[42:22] stablecoins, tokenization, a
[42:23] new payment
[42:24] system will help
[42:25] shape the future of
[42:26] money." He mentioned
[42:28] that El Muhammad
[42:29] Alerian calls this
[42:30] speech extremely
[42:31] important. I
[42:34] posted this
[42:35] today. I think
[42:36] everyone, whether
[42:37] they believe in
[42:38] cryptocurrency or not,
[42:39] should read both
[42:40] Scott
[42:41] Bess' impeachment and
[42:42] Muhammad Alan's New
[42:43] York Times article about the importance
[42:44] of this speech to Wall
[42:45] Street. You can no longer
[42:46] not have any
[42:47] opinions about
[42:47] cryptocurrency. You
[42:49] can't just
[42:49] call it
[42:50] speculative and walk
[42:51] away. This will disrupt
[42:53] business and public
[42:54] actions. We will have
[42:56] tokenization. So the point is to
[42:57] do
[42:58] your homework
[42:59] now. If you don't
[43:01] believe me and
[43:01] ignored all this,
[43:02] then read these
[43:03] articles. Read
[43:05] Scott
[43:05] Besson's speech. Here is, uh, an
[43:07] article by
[43:08] Muhammad Alan.
[43:10] Scott Besson
[43:11] formulated a new
[43:14] US economic doctrine. This administration
[43:16] will be in power for the
[43:17] next two and
[43:17] a half years. His
[43:19] main point
[43:19] is that
[43:20] Wall Street and
[43:21] economists have not
[43:21] fully grasped
[43:22] how massive
[43:23] this shift is. Instead,
[43:24] the United States now
[43:24] views
[43:25] economic security
[43:26] as inseparable from
[43:27] national security
[43:28] . This means that
[43:29] trade, investment,
[43:30] technology,
[43:30] standards,
[43:31] supply chains, tariffs,
[43:32] exports, payment
[43:33] systems, and the role of the
[43:33] dollar become
[43:34] instruments of
[43:35] strategic power. The
[43:36] old structure
[43:37] of globalization
[43:38] is over. This is
[43:39] really critically
[43:40] important. Regarding AI, they
[43:42] have developed an AI action plan
[43:43] . They
[43:44] focused on
[43:44] passing the
[43:46] Clarity Act. It has not
[43:47] been accepted yet. A
[43:47] brilliant law, uh,
[43:49] was passed
[43:49] last year regarding
[43:50] payments in digital
[43:51] assets. The best thing,
[43:53] in Alan's opinion, is that
[43:54] cryptocurrency
[43:55] is transforming from a
[43:56] speculative show
[43:57] into a tool of
[44:00] US financial governance.
[44:01] The future of money will be
[44:02] shaped by digital
[44:03] assets,
[44:03] stablecoins
[44:04] , tokenization, and
[44:05] new payment
[44:05] systems. And the US
[44:06] should not allow
[44:08] this infrastructure to be built
[44:09] elsewhere. They
[44:11] said the same thing about AI. So
[44:13] if you're having doubts
[44:14] now that Bitcoin
[44:15] and the cryptocurrency
[44:16] market are not in a
[44:17] positive mood,
[44:19] and as I'm going through, it's
[44:20] very reminiscent of where we
[44:21] were with artificial
[44:22] intelligence a year and three
[44:23] months ago when I was
[44:25] buying Micron below 100
[44:26] and people were telling me
[44:27] nothing was
[44:28] happening. In
[44:29] May, I wrote
[44:30] an article about logical
[44:31] inference. Crickets best in
[44:32] Stockman seems to be
[44:33] looking at dollar-
[44:34] based stablecoins
[44:35] as a way to
[44:36] expand the dollar. Don't
[44:38] fight digital
[44:39] dollars. Adjust
[44:40] them. For Bitcoin, the
[44:43] consequences are different, but
[44:44] free, and I will
[44:45] understand them. As an investor
[44:48] , is it important to do your
[44:49] homework
[44:50] on digital
[44:50] assets,
[44:52] stablecoins, and their
[44:53] future fit? I just
[44:54] literally walked around
[44:55] and asked a
[44:56] law professor about this issue
[44:58] . What will happen to the
[45:00] financial system
[45:01] when money, collateral,
[45:02] payments, settlements,
[45:03] and ultimately artificial
[45:04] intelligence, agents,
[45:05] commerce become
[45:06] programmable? This is
[45:07] where we really
[45:08] are at the
[45:09] moment. And the reason
[45:10] I want you
[45:11] guys to do this
[45:12] homework is because
[45:13] I
[45:14] also want you to
[45:15] go back after
[45:16] reading Muhammad
[45:17] Alan, after
[45:18] reading Scott
[45:19] Bessen, and then
[45:20] go back to Marc
[45:21] Andre and his article
[45:22] from January 21, 2014
[45:23] called “Why
[45:24] Bitcoin Matters
[45:25] .” Eventually,
[45:26] major products,
[45:27] companies, and industries emerged
[45:28] that commercialized
[45:29] it. His influence became
[45:30] profound, and later
[45:31] many people
[45:32] wonder why his
[45:33] powerful potential
[45:33] was not more
[45:34] apparent from the
[45:35] beginning. What
[45:36] technology am I talking about?
[45:37] Personal
[45:38] computers in 1975,
[45:40] the Internet in 1993, and,
[45:42] I believe, Bitcoin in 2014
[45:44] . People didn't
[45:45] perceive the Internet
[45:46] as something important,
[45:47] that is, they didn't perceive
[45:48] it as a reality,
[45:49] until the
[45:50] iPhone actually came along. That's
[45:52] when everything became
[45:53] real. We were in a
[45:54] bare-bones
[45:54] technology market during the
[45:55] dot-com
[45:56] bubble. So,
[45:57] Bitcoin, we are now 12
[45:58] years ahead. That
[45:59] was 14 years
[46:00] ahead. He's
[46:01] talking about
[46:02] personal
[46:02] computers. You guys
[46:03] can come back
[46:04] and see when they were
[46:05] accepted. In
[46:07] conclusion, there is no shortage of
[46:08] regulatory topics and
[46:09] issues that
[46:10] will have to
[46:10] be addressed within
[46:11] Bitcoin, as almost
[46:12] no country has
[46:13] adopted a regulatory
[46:14] framework for
[46:16] banking and payments for a
[46:17] technology like
[46:18] Bitcoin. Well, we got
[46:19] through it, guys. The
[46:21] US government, the leader of the free
[46:22] world, not only
[46:23] won the election on
[46:25] this, is implementing a
[46:26] regulatory framework, but is
[46:29] doing so simultaneously
[46:30] with artificial
[46:31] intelligence. But I
[46:32] hope I have given
[46:33] you an idea of ​​the
[46:34] huge potential of
[46:35] Bitcoin. Bitcoin offers
[46:37] ample opportunities
[46:38] to imagine how the financial system can and
[46:39] should work
[46:40] . This is
[46:41] the most important thing.
[46:42] To rethink how the
[46:43] financial system
[46:44] can and should
[46:45] work in the
[46:45] Internet age, and to become a
[46:46] catalyst for
[46:47] transforming that
[46:48] system in a way that is
[46:49] more
[46:50] powerful for both
[46:50] individuals and
[46:51] businesses. Andre
[46:55] told investors
[46:56] why Bitcoin
[46:57] mattered, even before the
[46:58] government understood it. Wesson is now
[47:00] telling politicians
[47:01] why this is important.
[47:01] Agent commerce
[47:02] with artificial
[47:03] intelligence is
[47:03] an accelerator.
[47:04] Once AI agents
[47:05] start
[47:05] making
[47:06] transactions,
[47:06] consuming computations
[47:07] , managing subscriptions
[47:08] , paying bills, and
[47:09] moving them, the
[47:09] payment system
[47:10] becomes the operational
[47:11] layer of the agent
[47:11] economy. In 2014,
[47:12] Andre saw
[47:13] the internet's need for
[47:14] native
[47:15] value transfer
[47:16] . In 2026, Betton
[47:18] realized this. Guys, this is an
[47:20] obvious decision.
[47:21] Spending time on this is an
[47:22] obvious decision.
[47:23] Jeremy Grantham
[47:24] goes on a tirade about
[47:25] Bitcoin, saying it's
[47:26] worthless.
[47:27] He's again...I do
[47:29] n't know how to
[47:30] say it anymore. People don't
[47:31] pay attention. They
[47:32] said the same thing about
[47:33] AI. These were
[47:34] hallucinations.
[47:35] I was on trips last year
[47:36] , hearing
[47:36] about how these
[47:37] hallucinations
[47:38] would always be presented.
[47:38] It was garbage. This
[47:40] will never be
[47:40] accepted. This will never
[47:41] pass. So I
[47:42] wrote this article on
[47:44] May 15, 2025. A
[47:45] twist of logical
[47:45] conclusion where
[47:46] real-time assets
[47:47] meet
[47:48] real-world capabilities. We are
[47:48] just beginning with the
[47:49] future growth of
[47:50] AI agents. This is
[47:51] May 2015.
[47:54] AI-powered phones and PCs and embodied
[47:56] AI, such as
[47:56] self-driving
[47:57] platforms and
[47:58] humanoid robots
[47:59] . The demand for logical
[48:00] inference is poised
[48:01] to become parabolic.
[48:02] The implications for
[48:03] semiconductors,
[48:04] memory, networking,
[48:04] power, and
[48:06] computer peripherals are
[48:06] enormous. If the
[48:07] first
[48:08] quarter earnings, this is the first
[48:09] quarter of last
[48:10] year, told us anything
[48:10] , it's that the
[48:11] scalable
[48:12] inference infrastructure has
[48:13] officially arrived.
[48:14] Crickets last
[48:15] year when I wrote this
[48:16] article and I'm sure
[48:17] cryptocurrency is
[48:18] getting
[48:18] crickets now. Now,
[48:19] if you guys
[48:20] want to read
[48:21] the stuff from
[48:21] March of this year,
[48:22] why the confusion when
[48:23] consumers become
[48:24] agents, the
[48:25] floodgates of claws are open? Well, that
[48:26] turned out to be right
[48:27] for the agency
[48:28] side. Tokenization is
[48:29] when ownership becomes
[48:30] programmable. You
[48:31] guys can
[48:32] look at it for
[48:33] yourself. That's all that's coming
[48:34] next, guys. I've
[48:35] been writing about this for the
[48:37] past year and a half
[48:38] , all at the
[48:39] Substack Stripe sessions and the future
[48:40] agency economy of
[48:42] commerce. The reason
[48:43] this is on Substack for
[48:44] all of traditional
[48:44] finance
[48:45] to be aware of is because
[48:46] most people don't
[48:47] pay attention to
[48:48] cryptocurrency. So what
[48:50] I do on the
[48:51] subscriber wall, what I
[48:52] do in what I
[48:53] do with 22V clients,
[48:54] I don't talk
[48:55] about cryptocurrency at all. For
[48:56] those of you who are
[48:57] interested in
[48:57] cryptocurrencies, I
[48:58] know you believe in this
[48:59] . I know you
[49:00] understand that. But all of
[49:01] these things, this is from
[49:03] June 30th, Stripe Sessions and the
[49:04] upcoming Agentic Commerce.
[49:05] They show you
[49:06] what's going on. This is
[49:08] already happening
[49:09] publicly. Well, these
[49:10] guys aren't public,
[49:11] but it's there. That's why
[49:12] I showed it. This will be
[49:14] part of the video. This
[49:15] will be the basic
[49:16] structure around
[49:17] this. The blue line here
[49:19] is the 40-name index, 40
[49:20] names to create
[49:22] the crypto index that I
[49:23] created. They are divided
[49:25] into eight verticals,
[49:27] which are actually
[49:27] sectors. If you
[49:29] go through them, there are 34
[49:31] tokens represented
[49:32] in the private world
[49:34] or the crypto world, and there are
[49:35] six that are now
[49:36] public
[49:37] companies. Things like a
[49:39] circle with equal
[49:40] weight. This is an overlay
[49:42] with Bitcoin. So, ultimately, I
[49:44] will continue
[49:45] to say that Bitcoin is the S&P
[49:46] 500 of the future
[49:47] of tokenization. You
[49:49] can believe it, you
[49:50] can doubt it,
[49:51] you can do whatever you
[49:52] want, but for
[49:53] all of you
[49:54] doubters,
[49:55] especially RAAS and FAS,
[49:56] whose money is invested in
[49:57] public companies,
[49:58] real estate and all these
[49:59] different things, the
[50:01] capital structure of the world is
[50:01] changing. And Scott
[50:03] Bessant told you
[50:04] that it is changing, and
[50:06] it will be represented by this
[50:07] . This is where you
[50:10] will find
[50:11] growth assets. This is where
[50:12] you will find things that
[50:13] grow. This is what I'm going to
[50:16] put together for the next
[50:18] YouTube video, which
[50:19] will actually be like this,
[50:20] but it won't start
[50:21] from the AI ​​side. This will be where
[50:23] AI
[50:24] meets
[50:25] tokenization of
[50:26] stablecoins and
[50:27] new financial
[50:28] barriers. This is what
[50:29] I will go through. This is what
[50:30] I will show you.
[50:32] Now, to conclude,
[50:33] Bitcoin is still a bare
[50:34] market. Technically, I
[50:35] showed you guys
[50:36] last week. I
[50:37] saw it
[50:38] trading well again
[50:39] this week. We
[50:40] have reached the minimum.
[50:41] I had
[50:42] divergence signals. We are still
[50:43] there. The 50-day
[50:44] indicator is the
[50:44] next limit,
[50:45] as far as I understand.
[50:46] We will exceed it, and
[50:47] then we will
[50:48] worry about the 200-
[50:49] day. Uh, that's exactly what I mean
[50:50] . Dodge,
[50:51] which I mentioned before,
[50:52] and for those who don't
[50:53] care about Dodge, Dodge
[50:54] is the energy of
[50:55] retail.
[50:56] This is what worries me.
[50:57] I want it to
[50:58] break above the 200-day
[50:59] mark as well. We have
[51:00] n't even surpassed the
[51:01] 20-day mark yet. We have
[51:02] surpassed Bitcoin.
[51:03] So there is no energy yet
[51:04] .
[51:05] Retail doesn't
[51:06] feel
[51:06] comfortable with this.
[51:07] Michael Saylor did
[51:08] something that everyone said
[51:09] if he ever
[51:10] did, Bitcoin would
[51:11] fall hard. He
[51:12] sold some of the
[51:13] Bitcoin, about 3,500
[51:14] coins. That's when
[51:16] the announcement appeared.
[51:18] This is what happened to
[51:19] Bitcoin. Oh, you know
[51:21] what? Closed higher than
[51:22] when
[51:23] this
[51:23] announcement appeared. So,
[51:25] we had a positive
[51:26] reaction to the bad
[51:27] news, as I
[51:27] mentioned last
[51:28] week. So, I'm
[51:29] going to wrap up the
[51:30] last three slides
[51:31] here. I wrote an article
[51:32] about the
[51:33] Fed's academic stance versus its
[51:34] inflation target going
[51:35] forward. If
[51:35] you haven't had
[51:36] the chance to
[51:37] do this, I highly
[51:37] recommend it. I think
[51:38] this is critically
[51:39] important as we
[51:40] approach what I
[51:41] believe is the
[51:42] only month the
[51:43] Fed will actually raise
[51:45] rates. I think
[51:46] if they're going to
[51:48] raise rates and
[51:49] he wants to gain
[51:50] confidence in the Fed, why
[51:51] not do it, uh, in
[51:53] July? Uh, it's about
[51:55] 50%. But to do that,
[51:57] I think there will be some kind of
[51:58] wink,
[51:59] wink, nod.
[52:00] While he said he wasn't
[52:02] going to make
[52:03] any predictions about the
[52:04] future, I think
[52:05] something is likely to
[52:06] come out because I do
[52:07] n't think he
[52:08] wants to disappoint the market in the first place
[52:09] ,
[52:10] especially with his, uh,
[52:11] relationship with
[52:12] Donald Trump,
[52:13] who just
[52:13] invited him. I think there's a
[52:15] lot to
[52:16] read here about the impact of
[52:17] artificial intelligence
[52:19] on the Fed. And all I'm
[52:20] using are
[52:20] Kevin Warsh's words from
[52:22] his
[52:22] confirmation hearings and from the
[52:23] interview he gave to the
[52:24] ECB forum last
[52:25] week. I also
[52:26] posted this on
[52:27] Substack. If you guys are
[52:29] n't getting my substack
[52:30] , subscribe to
[52:31] it. For the Trady people, I
[52:32] think now
[52:33] more than ever, people are
[52:34] reading what I write
[52:35] about cryptocurrency. I
[52:36] linked Bitcoin to this
[52:37] art
[52:37] of weaning off the Fed and
[52:39] why it's important. And
[52:40] the main reason why
[52:41] this is important is this
[52:42] diagram right here. So this is a
[52:43] rate cut, the white
[52:45] line here. So, we were
[52:48] expecting 150 uh and,
[52:53] well, we were supposed to have a
[52:55] rate cut here
[52:56] and now we have a
[52:57] rate increase here.
[53:01] So, we've moved from a
[53:04] rate cut position, we've made
[53:05] a cut here, we've
[53:06] made a cut here,
[53:07] and then the rest of it
[53:08] moves from
[53:09] future cuts
[53:10] through December of this year
[53:11] to a hike. This is Bitcoin
[53:15] , superimposed on this.
[53:17] So as they
[53:18] became more
[53:18] hawkish as we
[53:19] started to see
[53:20] the end of the
[53:21] down cycle and
[53:22] the fear that that was
[53:22] happening, now we
[53:23] also have a green
[53:24] line here, this is
[53:25] growth versus
[53:26] cost, which
[53:26] was actually the
[53:27] software side
[53:28] . It
[53:29] broke, and I think the
[53:31] Fed side will
[53:32] break. One or
[53:33] two things will happen. I don't
[53:34] think if the Fed
[53:35] raises rates, it's going to be all over in
[53:36] one go
[53:37] , and I think
[53:38] it's going to be 25. I think you're
[53:39] probably going to see a
[53:40] decline in
[53:41] long-term
[53:42] rates because of the confidence
[53:43] in Fred. If they do
[53:44] n't do it, and I
[53:45] don't think they
[53:46] will, then I'll
[53:47] stick to the
[53:48] fact that they're
[53:49] not going to do anything,
[53:50] and I'll
[53:50] stick to my
[53:51] article. And I think
[53:52] at this point you
[53:53] might have a
[53:54] tailwind for Bitcoin. And that's
[53:59] all for this week,
[54:00] guys. Thank you again
[54:02] everyone. I will be in Maine
[54:04] for the rest of the summer and
[54:05] will keep you
[54:07] posted. See you
[54:08] next week.

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