Jordi Visser / VisserLabs
The AI Mid-Cycle Slowdown: OpenAI, Anthropic, and the AI Price War
Summary
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5-AgvxQKEk | Duration: 47 min
â—† Market Dynamics & Secular Shifts
The current market movements signal a significant future shift in artificial intelligence and its financing structure. The speaker asserts that hyperscalers are currently weak, supporting a belief in a secular rotation away from the Mag 7 giants. This transition is occurring alongside an ongoing AI pricing war and increasing technology commoditization, which is exacerbated by inflation remaining above four percent. Broader questions remain regarding whether governments will support the massive buildout required for AI to become a daily part of life.
â–¶ Hyperscaler Shifts and Innovation
The landscape is changing rapidly, highlighted by SpaceX becoming the 4th-largest hyperscaler in 30 days. The speaker argues that current bubble talk merely moves goalposts as arguments about capex or revenue delays persist even when revenues materialize. While being bearish on the hyperscalers due to their race toward commoditization, the outlook remains bullish relative to beneficiaries like Eli Lilly and healthcare companies. There is a strong emphasis on exponential innovation in AI, comparing it to historical breakthroughs where intense focus can quickly solve intractable problems.
★ Market Structure & Consolidation
The market is currently in a consolidation phase, viewed as stocks being tired runners after sharp upward runs. The S&P 500 has shown only a minor bounce following its biggest drop since liberation week, anticipating significant back and forth movement. Despite this volatility, the thematic portfolio is not expected to correct substantially. Notably, the IWM reached new all-time highs, indicating strength in small caps. This strong performance in small caps, coupled with rising energy prices, makes a bare market unlikely.
â–º Evidence of Capital Rotation
Current data strongly indicates a major capital rotation. TMT momentum volatility is at 25-year highs, causing significant market shaking. Hyperscalers are showing clear weakness relative to the S&P, experiencing back-to-back four percent down weeks. Conversely, small caps represented by IWM have significantly outperformed the Magnificent Seven over the last month—a historically rare occurrence in the past decade. This pattern confirms that capital is shifting away from hyperscaler stocks into other areas of growth.
â—† Defining the Midcycle Slowdown
The market is entering an AI midcycle slowdown, characterized by a shift from explosive growth to choppier performance as the second derivative changes. This phase is viewed as a necessary pullback and rotation, not the start of a bear market or bubble unwind. The major trend involves rotating away from concentrated bets on the Mag 7 hyperscalers toward a much broader thematic portfolio. Hyperscaler weakness, combined with high valuations and debt, makes them vulnerable to this unwinding process. Furthermore, the token index is accelerating downward due to increased open-source usage and seasonal dips in summer usage.
â–¶ AI Pricing Wars & Sustainability
The intense competition threatens hyperscalers like Microsoft and Amazon who face rising infrastructure costs. While the hype phase may be ending, the underlying secular trend remains positive from a power user perspective.
★ Core Tension: Model vs. Physical Layer
The central conflict is model-layer price compression battling rising physical infrastructure costs, which may shift margin pressure to hyperscalers. Market indicators suggest stability: tight credit spreads and consolidating BDCs signal no immediate unwind of private credit bubbles. Macroeconomic data shows sticky CPI but suggests it has likely peaked, while PPI saw a record jump due to factors including semiconductors. The future points toward infinite demand for intelligence, yet 80 percent of workloads will run on significantly cheaper models within the next year and a half.
â–º Infrastructure Bottlenecks & Commodity Shift
â—† The Chemical Revolution
The chemical market is positioned as the oil of the next decade due to massive industrial shifts driven by AI. The economy is moving from a combustion-driven transport model toward an infrastructure-heavy, compute-intensive system—a shift where energy consumption moves from "barrels burned" to "molecules engineered." Key beneficiaries include semiconductors, advanced packaging, data centers, grid development, and robotics. The chemical market has recently broken out of a five-year consolidation period. Companies like Entegris are highlighted as examples of this trend.
★ Materials, Complexity, and Thematic Investing
Increasing AI complexity is driving demand for specialized materials like NAND, supporting the thesis regarding the missing chemical layer required for advanced AI infrastructure. Chemicals and materials are identified as a strong thematic investment area within broader semiconductor trends. Beyond hardware, significant attention is given to high-growth biotech and longevity sectors, recommending investments in companies like Chai Discovery. The speaker advises using LLMs to analyze themes and rank potential investments.
📊 Key Investment Thesis Summary
| Ticker/Concept | Role in Market Shift | Investment Thesis |
|---|---|---|
| Eli Lilly | Beneficiary/Healthcare | Bullish relative to hyperscalers due to exponential innovation. |
| Entegris | Chemical/Materials Supplier | Positioned as the 'oil' of the next decade due to AI infrastructure demand. |
| IWM | Small Caps Proxy | Strong outperformance over Mag 7 confirms capital rotation away from hyperscalers. |
✅ Strategic Takeaways & Actions
- Focus on Thematic Portfolios: Actively select specific names within a broader thematic space rather than relying on concentrated bets in the Mag 7.
- Prioritize Materials & Chemicals: Invest in companies benefiting from the shift to "molecules engineered," such as those supplying critical minerals and advanced chemicals (e.g., Entegris).
- Monitor Biotech/Longevity: Maintain interest in high-growth sectors like biotech, with specific mention of companies like Chai Discovery.
â—† Search for the alpha
The core thesis driving capital allocation is a secular rotation away from concentrated, high-valuation software bets (Hyperscalers/Mag 7) toward industrial beneficiaries driven by AI's physical requirements. The market is shifting focus from model-layer price compression to physical-layer inflation and supply chain bottlenecks, making specialized materials and infrastructure the primary source of alpha.
- Capital Rotation: Actively rotating capital out of hyperscaler stocks (which are showing back-to-back 4% down weeks relative to S&P) and concentrated Mag 7 bets into broader thematic portfolios and small caps.
- Thematic Shift (New Oil): The primary growth theme is the "missing chemical layer" required for advanced AI infrastructure; investment focus must shift toward chemicals, copper, silver, and critical minerals due to global supply constraints.
- Defensive/Beneficiary Bets: Maintain bullish positioning in healthcare beneficiaries like Eli Lilly, as they are insulated from the hyperscaler commoditization risk.
- Avoidance/Caution: Avoid concentrated bets on pure AI model providers (Anthropic) if their parabolic revenue growth pauses, and maintain a bearish stance on Bitcoin below its 200-day moving average.
- Regime Change Catalyst: The transition is defined by the shift from a combustion-driven transport economy to an infrastructure-heavy, compute-intensive system ("barrels burned to molecules engineered").
| Asset | Signal | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Hyperscalers (General) | Bearish/Rotation Out | Facing commoditization and intense price wars. |
| IWM (Small Caps) | Strong Buy Signal | Outperforming Mag 7 significantly; evidence of capital rotation. |
| Chemicals / Materials | High Conviction Buy | Positioned as the "oil of the next decade" due to AI infrastructure needs. |
| Eli Lilly / Healthcare | Bullish/Beneficiary | Strong relative performance compared to hyperscalers. |
â–º Chapter Summaries
Framing: The signal behind the noise, secular rotation away from the hyperscalers and the Mag 7, commoditization and price wars, and a preview of chemicals breaking out and Vera Rubin complexity. (0:00)
The chapter frames current market movements as a signal regarding the future of artificial intelligence and its financing structure. The speaker asserts that hyperscalers are currently weak, supporting a belief in a secular rotation away from the Mag 7 giants into other segments of the marketplace. This shift is occurring alongside an ongoing AI pricing war. Furthermore, the technology is facing commoditization, which is exacerbated by inflation remaining above four percent. The discussion also touches upon broader questions about whether governments will support the massive buildout required for artificial intelligence to become a daily part of life.
BG2 pod (Baker/Gersner): SpaceX as the 4th-largest hyperscaler in 30 days; the end of the fireworks show; why bubble talk just moves the goalposts; bearish on hyperscalers relative to the receivers of the capex and beneficiaries like Eli Lilly. (1:50)
The discussion highlights that SpaceX has rapidly become a major hyperscaler, signaling a shift in the market's dynamic landscape. The speaker argues that current bubble talk merely moves goalposts, as arguments about capex or revenue delays persist even as revenues materialize. While bearish on the hyperscalers themselves due to their race toward commoditization, the speaker remains bullish relative to beneficiaries like Eli Lilly and healthcare companies. There is a strong emphasis on exponential innovation in AI, comparing it to historical breakthroughs where intense focus could solve intractable problems quickly. The speaker cautions that while skepticism about AI exists, current market signs do not indicate an imminent correction.
Consolidation: Stocks as tired runners after a cliff-like run; the S&P bouncing off its sharpest drop since liberation week; IWM at new all-time highs, "not bearish." (5:45)
The market is currently experiencing a consolidation phase, viewed as stocks being tired runners after sharp upward runs. The S&P 500 has shown only a minor bounce following its biggest drop since liberation week. Significant back and forth movement is anticipated in the near term, with investors positioned for positives reinforcing negative movements. While some names may rise temporarily despite lack of bullish sentiment, the thematic portfolio is not expected to correct substantially. Notably, IWM reached new all-time highs, indicating strength in small caps. This strong performance in small caps, coupled with rising energy prices, makes a bare market unlikely.
Rotation evidence: TMT momentum vol at 25-year highs; hyperscalers' back-to-back 4% down weeks vs the S&P; IWM up ~9.8% on the Mag 7 for the month. (7:07)
TMT momentum volatility is currently at 25-year highs, causing significant market shaking. Hyperscalers are showing clear weakness relative to the S&P, experiencing back-to-back four percent down weeks. This pattern strongly indicates a major capital rotation within the market. Small caps represented by IWM have significantly outperformed the Magnificent Seven over the last month. This outperformance is historically rare, having only occurred twice in the past decade. The data suggests that capital is shifting away from hyperscaler stocks into other areas of growth.
The AI midcycle slowdown defined: why the second derivative turns, why it gets choppier, and why this is a pullback, not a bear market or bubble unwind. (9:09)
The market is entering an AI midcycle slowdown, characterized by a shift from explosive growth to choppier performance as the second derivative changes. This phase is viewed as a necessary pullback and rotation rather than the start of a bear market or bubble unwind. A major trend involves rotating away from concentrated bets on the Mag 7 hyperscalers toward a much broader thematic portfolio of many names. Hyperscalers are showing weakness, and their high valuations combined with debt make them vulnerable to this unwinding process. Furthermore, the token index is accelerating downward due to increased open-source usage and seasonal dips in summer usage. Investors must prepare for this rotation and resulting volatility by actively selecting specific names within the thematic space.
Price wars & the money loop: Altman on drastic price cuts; the "most dangerous money loop in history"; cancellations at Microsoft, Meta, and Uber; why any pause in Anthropic's parabolic revenue is a big negative. (13:26)
OpenAI is considering drastic price cuts due to intense customer pressure, signaling a dangerous AI price war that threatens hyperscalers like Microsoft and Amazon who are facing rising infrastructure costs. Increasing cancellations at major tech companies such as Meta and Uber demonstrate that high AI costs are becoming unsustainable for sophisticated users. The speaker warns that any slowdown or pause in Anthropic's rapid revenue growth would be a significant negative risk. Bottlenecks are real, suggesting a potential pullback toward cheaper models despite China accelerating its own massive AI buildout plan. While the hype phase may be ending, the underlying secular trend remains positive from a power user perspective.
The core tension: model-layer price compression vs physical-layer inflation; elevated earnings estimates skewing risk to the downside; tight credit spreads and consolidating BDCs signaling no bubble unwind. (22:11)
The core tension in the current AI landscape is model pricing compression battling rising physical infrastructure costs, which may shift margin pressure to hyperscalers. Market indicators suggest stability, as tight credit spreads and consolidating BDCs signal no immediate unwind of private credit bubbles despite recent bad news. Macroeconomic data shows sticky CPI but suggests it has likely peaked, while PPI saw a record jump due to factors including semiconductors. Regarding AI investment, companies are spending billions on data centers but have high licensing revenues, indicating profitability is not currently a bubble risk. The future of AI points toward infinite demand for intelligence, yet 80 percent of workloads will run on significantly cheaper models within the next year and a half. Financial sector strength and market rotation also suggest structural shifts rather than bearish trends in the broader economy.
Inflation & bottlenecks: PPI's biggest jump on record; sticky PCE keeping the Fed on hold; MLCC and indium phosphide squeezing the AI build-out. (28:34)
Sticky inflation and uncertainty surrounding Fed policy continue to hold economic activity in check. Critical bottlenecks are emerging in AI infrastructure, specifically concerning high-end MLCC supplies and rare earth components like indium phosphide, which China dominates. The speaker predicts an AI midcycle slowdown, suggesting that investment focus is shifting away from traditional earnings growth stocks toward commodities. This shift emphasizes chemicals, copper, silver, and other critical minerals due to global supply constraints. Furthermore, the rise of orbital data centers and solid-state batteries suggests potential future demand spikes for metals like silver. The overall theme is a rewired economy centered on compute and energy rather than conventional industrial cycles.
Chemical breakout: a five-year base broken; chemicals as the oil of the next decade; "barrels burned to molecules engineered" across semis, packaging, data centers, grid, and robotics with Entegris approaching a new all-time high again. (37:47)
The chemical market is positioned as the oil of the next decade due to massive industrial shifts driven by AI. The economy is moving away from a combustion-driven transport model toward an infrastructure-heavy, compute-intensive system. This transition means that energy consumption is shifting from barrels burned to molecules engineered across various sectors. Key areas benefiting include semiconductors, advanced packaging, data centers, grid development, and robotics, all of which rely heavily on chemicals. The chemical market has recently broken out of a five-year consolidation period, signaling a major theme for investors. Companies like Entegris are highlighted as examples of this trend, showing strong momentum near all-time highs. This massive shift requires attention because it represents a late cycle industrial change that is unlikely to stop soon.
Vera Rubin & the NAND thesis: rising complexity driving the missing chemical layer; Entegris naming NAND 39 times in two quarters; the thematic workflow ranking chemicals and materials among the top themes. (40:22)
The analysis focuses on how increasing AI complexity is driving demand for specialized materials like NAND, positioning companies such as Entegris as critical suppliers. This trend supports Vera Rubin's thesis regarding the missing chemical layer required for advanced AI infrastructure. The speaker identifies chemicals and materials as a strong thematic investment area within broader semiconductor trends. Beyond hardware, significant attention is given to high-growth biotech and longevity sectors, recommending investments in companies like Chai Discovery. While discussing market strategy, the speaker advises using LLMs to analyze themes and rank potential investments. Finally, regarding crypto, although he believes it benefits from AI, the technical analysis confirms Bitcoin remains in a bear market below its 200-day moving average.
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Transcript
[0:03] [sighs]
[0:04] Obviously, the main thing is hopefully
[0:06] next week when I do this video, the next
[0:09] world will be world champions. Uh, and I
[0:12] get to enjoy it. But let's go on with
[0:15] the markets. Um,
[0:18] if you haven't listened to the Gavin
[0:19] Baker, Brad Gersonner, uh, interview, a
[0:21] lot of what I'm going to talk about can
[0:23] be summarized in in what they did. I
[0:25] thought they covered everything
[0:26] extremely well. And for those of you who
[0:28] are perma bearish, uh even though they
[0:30] are self-proclaimed AI pill and I guess
[0:33] I'm AI pilled as well from a power user
[0:36] perspective, theirs is from an
[0:37] investment perspective. Um I think the
[0:40] stories that I've been telling along
[0:42] with what they're getting. Um this is
[0:45] the signal that I give you guys in this
[0:48] week to keep you up on what's going on.
[0:50] uh to let people have their bubble talk
[0:53] to go through this. But really the
[0:55] foundation is will artificial
[0:57] intelligence be more of our life every
[0:59] single day and will the buildout be
[1:01] financed by people who can handle the
[1:03] financing of it. Are the governments
[1:05] supporting it? I think they go through
[1:07] this well. We got the recap.
[1:09] Hyperscalers are weak and again this is
[1:11] all part of my belief of the secular
[1:13] rotation away from the hyperscalers in
[1:16] the mag 7 and into the rest of the
[1:18] marketplace. I'll go through that. The
[1:20] pricing war is continuing. Um,
[1:23] commoditization of these inflation
[1:27] above 4%. Uh, I'll go through that. I
[1:30] did create a Jensen Yuang knowledge
[1:32] brain. I'll highlight it again today for
[1:34] the subscribers. You guys have it up on
[1:36] the website in terms of how to do it.
[1:38] Uh, I'm going to talk more about Signal
[1:40] Alpha Agency in terms of uh, the whole
[1:43] concept that I'm trying to bring with
[1:45] the videos, but also with the reports
[1:48] and everything. And then specifically on
[1:50] names, chemicals uh are breaking out and
[1:54] a spotlight name that I've highlighted
[1:55] before. I just want to go through some
[1:57] details specifically to Vera Rubin and
[1:59] Complexity. So here's the interview with
[2:02] uh Brad Gersonner and Gavin Baker on the
[2:04] BG2 pod. Definitely a listen. They cover
[2:08] SpaceX uh highlight that it's the fourth
[2:11] largest hyperscaler and it only took 30
[2:14] days. So for people that are negative on
[2:16] SpaceX,
[2:17] uh you can go list it in there. I
[2:19] covered it on Pomp this week as well.
[2:23] It's not a bullish argument on SpaceX,
[2:25] but it is a uh
[2:28] a logical side compared to all the bears
[2:31] that are out there uh on the name from a
[2:33] valuation perspective. Uh basically,
[2:36] they talk about the stock market after
[2:38] the runup and how you should think about
[2:39] it. Uh I talked about it as the end of
[2:41] the fireworks show. they go through a
[2:43] similar thing. They remind everyone
[2:46] something that I've talked about which
[2:48] is at the beginning of the year and
[2:49] really uh at the end of the of 2025
[2:53] everything was about a bubble based on
[2:54] not being able to get the revenues. Now
[2:56] as the revenues are coming in and it's
[2:58] very clear nobody's really backing off
[3:00] the bubble. They just moved to the next
[3:02] bubble scene. That is the sign of a
[3:04] bubble and bubble talk uh is when
[3:06] whatever your argument is the capex will
[3:09] never happen. They won't be able to get
[3:11] the money for it. uh the ar the revenues
[3:13] will never come through. Every single
[3:14] argument continues to go. I saw someone
[3:17] uh who is another bear on this who's
[3:19] written multiple pieces saying this is
[3:21] exactly like fracking and what happened
[3:24] and to a degree I agree except for the
[3:27] fact that that's why I don't want to
[3:29] belong the hyperscalers. So remember
[3:31] guys, you can be bearish on the capex
[3:35] and on the revenue delay,
[3:38] but that doesn't mean that you should be
[3:39] bearish on the stock market or a
[3:41] collapse. There are two totally
[3:43] different things that can happen. I am
[3:45] bearish on the hyperscalers relative to
[3:49] the receivers of the money and relative
[3:51] to health care companies which will
[3:53] benefit like Eli Liy in a whole bunch of
[3:56] different applications. The hyperscalers
[3:58] are going to finance this. They are in a
[3:59] race to commoditization and all of them
[4:03] including anthropic and open AAI may not
[4:05] get the money that they're supposed to
[4:07] get in the end. We'll see what happens.
[4:09] But I am not positive on those. So as
[4:12] much as I might be AI pilled, I am
[4:13] different than Brad Gersonner and Gavin
[4:16] Baker in not sitting there saying that I
[4:18] think that Anthropic and Open AI will
[4:21] definitely be winners in this whole
[4:23] thing. I'm not convinced about that. Um
[4:24] they go through all of those. They talk
[4:26] about the capex numbers, how big they're
[4:28] likely to be, how insatiable compute is.
[4:31] U they go through fable five. I think
[4:34] this is important. What I want to
[4:35] highlight here is basically this whole
[4:38] front of what it means. And rather than
[4:41] just go through the comments of how
[4:43] we're at this point that you could argue
[4:45] is RSI or or getting close to AGI.
[4:48] Imagine if Albert Einstein had just
[4:50] thought about fundamental physics 24
[4:51] hours a day. He doesn't have to eat. He
[4:53] doesn't have to sleep. He doesn't have
[4:54] to relax. He doesn't drink and never
[4:56] gets old and he thinks for one year. I
[5:01] mean, we might actually, you know, have
[5:03] solved a lot of these intractable
[5:05] problems. The reason I want to bring
[5:07] that up, I talk about this all the time.
[5:09] Remember, a year ago, people didn't even
[5:11] believe AI was good. So, again, every
[5:15] bubble theme, the same people say the
[5:17] exact same thing. They just move on to
[5:19] the next argument, and it's all based on
[5:21] the fact that number one, they're
[5:23] missing it. Number two, this can't
[5:24] happen because I've seen this before.
[5:26] They're using the industrial revolution
[5:27] BS to go through it. I'll say it again.
[5:30] I went to Silicon Valley, went to
[5:32] Singularity University in 2013 because I
[5:34] was in the same boat. I didn't think
[5:36] this was possible. Exponential
[5:38] innovation is the key. You can make a
[5:39] lot of money trading it. And if
[5:41] something does happen that we get a
[5:43] correction, we'll look for the signs.
[5:44] Right now, they're not there. They talk
[5:46] about seasonality, which I brought up in
[5:48] the uh uh in a bunch of stuff including
[5:51] an expost this week just about the usage
[5:53] going down, a reason why we're tired. I
[5:56] always think stocks, the markets, I
[5:58] imagine them as runners. You've had a
[6:00] lot of stocks that forget about climbing
[6:01] a mountain or a hill. They've gone
[6:02] straight up a cliff. They're tired. They
[6:04] need to rest. That's the consolidation
[6:06] argument that I would uh go through. So
[6:08] S&P for the week after a sharp down
[6:11] move, the biggest one since liberation
[6:14] uh week. Well, we had a minor bounce. So
[6:17] we're doing some bit of consolidating.
[6:19] Uh I still believe that we're probably
[6:22] going to have a lot of back and forth.
[6:23] Some of that's going to show up as I go
[6:25] through this and just say in the back of
[6:27] your mind, a lot of back and forth, a
[6:28] lot of positives, a lot of negatives.
[6:31] Investors are positioned for positives,
[6:33] so the negatives get reinforced to me.
[6:35] And that's where we kind of end up in
[6:37] this position where I think the names
[6:38] that people don't want to go higher are
[6:40] probably the ones that go higher for a
[6:42] bit of time. Sounds like a momentum
[6:44] unwind, but the reality is I don't think
[6:46] the thematic portfolio that I put
[6:47] together is going to correct too much.
[6:50] The Q's uh a little bit better week, but
[6:52] again make back about half of last week.
[6:55] Uh IWM
[6:57] new all-time highs. It's hard to have a
[6:59] bare market when small caps are at new
[7:02] all-time highs while we've got energy
[7:05] prices going higher. While we just build
[7:07] in Fed rate hikes and yet somehow or
[7:09] another, small caps make new all-time
[7:10] highs. Not bearish, guys. Not bearish.
[7:15] Here's probably the chart that is
[7:16] freaking people out the most. And I say
[7:18] that because having been in this seat,
[7:21] having had a lot of PMs report to me,
[7:24] when their P&L is shaking, it gets them
[7:27] scared. This is the TMT
[7:31] momentum volatility which is at all-time
[7:33] highs going back 25 years. It just
[7:36] continues to shake. So that shakes
[7:39] people out generally on the worst days
[7:41] and then they chase back in on the worst
[7:43] days and you get this back and forth
[7:44] because they're worried about missing
[7:46] something. Here's a big deal.
[7:48] Hyperscalers relative to the S&P. This
[7:50] is the last three years. Um I only just
[7:53] show this just because the last three,
[7:54] but this is relative to the S&P. We've
[7:57] had back-to-back 4% down weeks. We
[8:00] haven't seen that at any point. In fact,
[8:02] we've only had four before these two.
[8:05] The hyperscalers are weak and this is
[8:07] clearly a rotation and this is the way
[8:09] that we're playing the capital raises.
[8:11] They are using clearly the hyperscalers
[8:13] to buy SpaceX, to buy Anthropic, to buy
[8:16] this. That is where the capital's coming
[8:17] from, but also they're overweight these
[8:19] names. So, the Mag 7 fits into the same
[8:22] side. In fact, here's IWM relative to
[8:24] the Mag 7.
[8:26] This is a monthly return. So far, we're
[8:29] up 9.8% in IWM over the Mag 7. Uh this
[8:34] is back a decade. There's only two other
[8:37] times that this occurred. So again,
[8:40] you're getting a uh fairly large
[8:42] rotation. And here's the chart of it.
[8:43] IWM over the MAG 7 not only making
[8:46] one-year highs but look how strong the
[8:47] move has been the last consecutive days
[8:51] showing the rotation the S&P is down 2%
[8:53] monthto date and eight of the 11 sectors
[8:56] are now up for the month it's just that
[8:59] these are not the places that people are
[9:01] long industrials is but you've got all
[9:04] of the mag seven obviously dominating
[9:06] this but also semis uh seeing some
[9:09] pullback so I just want to make sure on
[9:12] the on the webinar I for the subscribers
[9:14] this week. This was basically the title
[9:16] of it, which is navigating the AI
[9:18] midcycle slowdown. Uh I believe we are
[9:21] in what is effectively a midcycle
[9:23] slowdown for AI. For those of you uh not
[9:26] familiar with kind of the macro term on
[9:27] this, when you come out of a recession,
[9:29] you get explosive growth relative to
[9:31] what it had been. It always surprises
[9:34] investors. Earnings revisions go higher
[9:36] and then all of a sudden at some point,
[9:38] whether it's the next quarter or the
[9:39] quarter after, you reach a point where
[9:40] the second derivative changes. And two
[9:43] things have occurred. Investors are now
[9:44] comfortable that the economy is
[9:47] accelerating. They're comfortable that
[9:48] earnings are good and they're now
[9:50] positioned for it. Analysts are
[9:51] positioned for it. And then it gets
[9:53] harder and more choppy. That's where we
[9:55] are. I do not think this is the
[9:57] beginning of a bare market. I do not
[9:59] think this is the unwind of a bubble. Um
[10:01] I do believe there are pockets of where
[10:03] the retail is overinvested and I believe
[10:05] those will end up being resolved through
[10:09] consolidation. every bubble we have seen
[10:12] over the last few years. I don't care
[10:14] what it was. Silver at uh at the
[10:16] beginning of the year, gold for most of
[10:17] last year, Palunteer, these things
[10:20] unwind through a correction and then
[10:23] through consolidation with inside a bull
[10:25] market on the broader market. That's
[10:27] what I believe will happen when the
[10:28] memory names actually start to see some
[10:30] unwinds, whether it happens in a day or
[10:32] whatever. I'm going to continue to say
[10:34] this um again for mutual funds, for
[10:37] pension funds, for anybody who has a
[10:39] benchmark.
[10:42] Read this paper. Um ask me for it. Reach
[10:45] out. Again, you need to be ready for the
[10:48] rotation that is happening has been
[10:50] happening which will continue to happen.
[10:53] My thematic portfolio of 100 names. So
[10:55] total market cap is 20 trillion.
[10:58] The market cap of the mag 7 is 22
[11:01] trillion. This is the rotation. You're
[11:04] going from seven names into effectively
[11:08] a 100 names.
[11:11] That is a dispersion situation for you
[11:13] options traders. Here is the thematic
[11:16] portfolio relative to the hyperscalers
[11:18] making new highs. I've said this is the
[11:20] trade you want to have on. You're not
[11:22] getting any kind of a correction in
[11:23] here. If you're short the hyperscalers,
[11:25] which are the spenders, if any of the
[11:27] bubble thing happens, the hyperscalers
[11:29] are going to suffer as well. and their
[11:31] multiples are extremely high and now
[11:33] they have debt. They have some dilution.
[11:37] There's going to be more. Here are the
[11:39] hyperscalers relative to the S&P chart.
[11:42] It's not a good-look chart. More
[11:43] importantly, we're now down since 2024.
[11:47] This unwind or this rotation has been
[11:50] happening. So, you're late to the party
[11:53] if you haven't done anything, but I
[11:54] think you need to focus on it. Here's
[11:56] the S&P relative to the hyperscalers. So
[11:58] the hyperscalers are moving down and I
[12:01] think this correlation break is going to
[12:02] continue as the rotation goes. Here is
[12:05] the token index. I highlighted this on
[12:06] the webinar and this is one of the
[12:09] reasons why I think it's very difficult
[12:10] at this point to be uh positive on the
[12:13] AI trade for the summertime at least for
[12:16] it to just go continue to go parabolic.
[12:18] I think it will be choppy. I think you
[12:20] need to rotate. I think you need to pick
[12:22] names. uh all of the Excel files that
[12:24] I've produced for you guys. I would
[12:26] highly uh recommend spending time on
[12:28] them uh just because I think you're
[12:30] going to be able to navigate this more.
[12:32] But this token thing is accelerating to
[12:34] the downside. It's a combination of more
[12:36] open- source usage, especially on the
[12:38] Chinese model side, but it's also the
[12:40] fact that the summertime you're going to
[12:41] see less usage just because of vacation
[12:44] and because of schools being closed. Um
[12:46] here it is. This is not a minor trend.
[12:49] This is a real defined trend. you're
[12:51] making. These are the daily drops
[12:53] percentage- wise. So, our biggest drop
[12:55] was actually on Friday.
[12:58] Here's the overlay with the
[12:59] hyperscalers. They're being caught up in
[13:00] the token side. So, there's clearly a
[13:02] story here, guys. Don't ignore it.
[13:04] There's absolutely a story for the
[13:06] options traders. And again, here's the
[13:08] VIX EQ showing the volatility of the ini
[13:10] individual names. If you're rotating
[13:13] from companies that are three to five
[13:16] billion in market cap and you're
[13:18] rotating into a hundred names where the
[13:20] average market cap is going to be like
[13:22] 150 uh billion, you're going to have
[13:24] more volatility in these names. It's
[13:26] just a sausage squeegee thing. And
[13:27] here's the VIX down here. Now, if we're
[13:30] actually going to get a bubble type
[13:31] unwind, if something big is going to
[13:33] happen, I put the hyperscalers inversed
[13:35] here. It's going to happen in the white
[13:37] line. This is the CDX for IG. Right now,
[13:40] we're not seeing anything on the credit
[13:42] side. Always remember that if we're
[13:44] really having a bubble unwind, the
[13:46] credit place will take part of it. I'll
[13:49] go through uh private credit in some
[13:50] other place as well. Remember this, Sam
[13:52] Alman's stunning admission about the
[13:55] pressure that is there from their own
[13:57] customers on pricing. OpenAI considers
[14:01] drastic price cuts, anticipating war for
[14:04] users. Price wars are not a good thing.
[14:06] Um, and they're not only not a good
[14:08] thing for anthropic and for
[14:11] uh open AI,
[14:13] the prospect of a price war is deeply
[14:15] uncomfortable for hyperscaling tech
[14:16] giants such as Amazon and Microsoft
[14:18] who've been spending wildly on AI
[14:20] infrastructure so they can sell
[14:21] computing capacity to the big AI firms.
[14:25] The cost of components going into these
[14:27] keeps rising. So any threat to the
[14:29] pricing side or the profits of these
[14:31] companies is troubling. So again, when
[14:34] you start getting into this and you're
[14:36] like, "A price war would be brutal." I
[14:38] would not ignore these because this will
[14:40] be brought out again. This is this
[14:42] circular relationship or mapped as
[14:44] Morgan Stanley said, as the most
[14:46] dangerous money loop in history. Again,
[14:48] if there's anything going on with inside
[14:52] this money loop, that is a negative. Oh,
[14:54] free cash flow burn. And again, I'm not
[14:56] showing this to say I'm negative. I'm
[14:58] showing this to show you what the
[15:00] negative arguments will be and why the
[15:03] market will have a harder time. These
[15:04] stories as this is accelerating.
[15:08] We're going to start getting into more
[15:09] numbers when we get into the second
[15:11] quarter and the second quarter is not
[15:13] going to be as big a surprise as the
[15:14] first quarter uh because we've already
[15:17] done a lot of the work and because
[15:18] bottlenecks are are definitely going.
[15:21] Why Alman also admitted AI costs have
[15:23] become a huge problem. This becomes a
[15:25] big story. It's spreading. This is in an
[15:27] Axios
[15:28] or he acknowledged the issue had arrived
[15:30] all of a sudden and that early in 2026
[15:33] nobody cared about cost. Everyone was
[15:35] happy with their spending, but now
[15:37] they're complaining and they're getting
[15:39] complaints on the cost. You're seeing
[15:41] more and more of these and you're seeing
[15:43] more and more cancellations. There was a
[15:45] story on Meta late uh last night. It is
[15:48] Saturday morning now. You're getting
[15:51] more and more of these. I'm seeing them
[15:52] through X every day. Citadel put out
[15:54] something. Uh this was mainly on the
[15:56] token index and tokconomics.
[15:59] Uh again,
[16:01] what the AI bulls won't say out loud. Uh
[16:04] I'm a bull in AI. I'm saying it out
[16:05] loud. So did Brad Gersonner. So did
[16:07] Gavin Baker. So as you guys are getting
[16:09] worried that no one's talking about the
[16:11] token side. Uh commoditization to me is
[16:14] going to happen again. That's why I want
[16:16] to not focus on the hyperscalers. Uh
[16:19] didn't didn't put this in right, but
[16:20] this was in the Wall Street Journal this
[16:22] morning. Again, the pressures on OpenAI
[16:24] and Enthropic from a pricing war
[16:26] perspective.
[16:29] Uh I don't know who hasn't figured out
[16:31] yet, but Enthropic's revenue is not
[16:32] going to scale anywhere close to what
[16:34] they've been projecting. Now, I happen
[16:36] to agree with this. Um I think Anthropic
[16:39] is going to grow their revenue, but I
[16:41] think taking the first five months of
[16:42] the year, which was a scramble for
[16:45] entities that were switching from Chat
[16:47] GPT Enterprise to Anthropic, just raced
[16:50] and they got a bunch. I think there's a
[16:52] lot of other reasons that are behind the
[16:54] scenes in the circular relationship as
[16:55] to what went on. But when you're seeing
[16:58] Microsoft talk about cancelling things,
[17:01] when you're talking about Meta, when you
[17:03] got Uber, you've got the most
[17:04] sophisticated places on the planet from
[17:07] a technology basis that are realizing
[17:09] that the cost is too high.
[17:11] I at least expect the acceleration in
[17:14] the AR to slow down. Maybe not. Maybe
[17:16] they'll make it up by more and more
[17:18] adopters replacing the ones that are
[17:20] cutting back. But the reality is any
[17:23] slowdown in Enthropics parabolic move,
[17:25] anything a pause, it's going to be a big
[17:27] negative. So I would just be very very
[17:29] wary of that risk in here. I think this
[17:31] is worth reading from Alec Canitz.
[17:33] Again, the public outcry in the country
[17:35] is getting worse. Oracle
[17:39] was kind of a warning sign. um stock
[17:41] could rally dramatically
[17:43] and they're spending more money and I
[17:46] think as you go through this and you
[17:48] start to think about it the competition
[17:49] even from Colossus and some of these
[17:51] other places from a valuation basis I
[17:54] don't know I'm just getting more and
[17:56] more of these signs that the bottlenecks
[17:58] are real the push back is real and that
[18:00] we might see a slight kind of pullback
[18:03] on these things moving more for a period
[18:06] of time to cheaper models to less
[18:08] profitable models and anything on that
[18:10] front would scare everyone especially
[18:12] while the costs are going high. This was
[18:14] a Cruso thing uh in terms of a pause
[18:17] this would have been amongst the largest
[18:19] AI infrastructure projects on earth.
[18:22] China
[18:24] not sure everyone saw this this week but
[18:26] basically this is their version of what
[18:29] the US is doing and they've decided that
[18:31] AGI is close. So they are accelerating
[18:35] and prepping a $300 billion plan to fund
[18:37] the AI buildout. This is a a step change
[18:40] and I think they smell blood. I think
[18:42] they also realize how quickly the models
[18:44] are getting to where they need to get
[18:46] there. But as I'll go through later,
[18:48] there's other things under the surface
[18:49] on the geopolitical side which suggest
[18:52] to me the trade war coming out of the
[18:54] meeting is still both relevant and still
[18:57] a part of this. Uh it's not rare earth
[18:59] anymore, but there's other places. The
[19:01] token usage uh which had been highly
[19:04] China then came down. I think this is a
[19:07] sign again that matches up with the
[19:09] token usage or the token index index
[19:12] going lower. You can see the pricing
[19:15] differential between the Chinese models,
[19:16] Miniax, DeepS, 10 cent,
[19:20] uh, Minia, and then
[19:25] these are the open- source ones. These
[19:27] are not even the cost ones of the other.
[19:29] I'll show those there. Now, I mean, you
[19:30] can just see the cost differential
[19:32] between the cheaper models. And I will
[19:34] highlight that this one here, Neatron,
[19:38] we're starting to get open source models
[19:40] which are pretty good and very cheap.
[19:44] So, we're just seeing them because aside
[19:46] from that one, you've got to go to older
[19:48] models like 5 4.5, but when you get into
[19:51] deepsek and some of these others, you're
[19:53] getting cheaper and cheaper costs.
[19:56] Uh, this is getting to be more of a
[19:58] worry for me for people not paying
[20:00] attention to it. I think this would be a
[20:02] big negative if the government is taking
[20:03] stakes in these companies. 34% chance.
[20:06] If you go here, you can go see all of
[20:08] them and what the percentage is, but
[20:10] we're getting more and more to the
[20:11] government getting involved. I'll spend
[20:12] more time on that there. Um, I'm just
[20:15] highlighting this is really more to show
[20:17] you the bubble talk that will be coming
[20:19] and that as people I mean Peter Barrison
[20:23] is bearish, guys. Uh, if you follow him,
[20:25] if you go through it, uh, this has been
[20:27] a perpetual thing for the last couple
[20:29] years. Uh, but he put this out and again
[20:31] it means nothing to me on this whole
[20:33] thing, but I just want to show you that
[20:34] this stuff will come out and if you're
[20:36] following X and you only look at this
[20:38] and you don't do some research like look
[20:40] at someone who's more on the ai side
[20:43] going through what this is then just go
[20:46] in and say is Peterly normally bullish
[20:48] or bearish and I highly recommend before
[20:50] you start forwarding these to find out
[20:52] the person that you're dealing with if
[20:54] this is a bubble chaser. If it's a
[20:55] bubble chaser, you can't take what
[20:57] they're saying as anything more than a
[20:59] general post of their bias. He is
[21:03] generally bearish or at least highly
[21:05] skeptical on the near-term hype.
[21:06] Frequent bubble warnings.
[21:09] How far back did he begin calling an AI
[21:11] bubble? And it goes through. It was
[21:13] early 2025 that he started calling it or
[21:16] mid 2025. Sorry. I got to be fair. And
[21:18] before calling an AI bubble, was he
[21:20] calling for a recession? This is the
[21:22] reason why he's calling for an AI bubble
[21:23] because he started calling for a
[21:25] recession in mid 2024.
[21:28] He was bullish relative to consensus
[21:31] there. The reason I bring this up is
[21:33] these people will never change. And I
[21:35] say these people because if you have a
[21:37] bias and you're not trading the market,
[21:39] if you're not finding something to go
[21:41] through, if you're not at least
[21:43] highlighting the es and flows right now,
[21:45] everything I'm doing is on a bull market
[21:49] to a consolidation. I still believe the
[21:52] secular trend is in place. That is from
[21:54] a power user perspective, not from a a
[21:57] person just writing stuff. But I think
[22:00] you have to realize that any bull market
[22:02] is going to have es and flows. And right
[22:04] now I think the firework show is over
[22:06] and the agentic AI moves from discovery
[22:08] to digestion. Okay. So let's go through
[22:11] this in a different way so you guys can
[22:13] see this because I wanted to make sure
[22:14] this was clear. Oh, you guys get to see
[22:16] me in a bigger way. Um,
[22:18] so these are all of the things that as
[22:21] you go through this, let me move this
[22:24] over here so you guys can see all of it.
[22:26] Um, just read this on your own. But if
[22:29] you put all of this together, and I
[22:30] wanted to make sure, model pricing falls
[22:33] faster than infrastructure costs are
[22:35] rising. The next margin squeeze may move
[22:37] toward hyperscalers, cloud providers,
[22:39] and lease capacity players. The key
[22:41] tension in AI is now price compression
[22:43] at the model layer versus inflation at
[22:45] the physical layer.
[22:46] And this is what this is. I think you
[22:48] have to be honest about where we are at
[22:51] least at a minimum to just see how this
[22:54] plays out. Riskreward is about
[22:56] identifying the place where investors
[22:58] have gone in and also analysts. So you
[23:00] could look at this and say the AI
[23:02] burnings earnings boom is generational.
[23:04] This is the long-term average earnings
[23:07] growth estimate. Okay.
[23:10] I just think now with this estimate
[23:13] we're at there's only downside from here
[23:15] in terms of if we're missing. So if you
[23:17] combine the likelihood that the miss
[23:19] involves something that people could
[23:20] make an argument like Peter Barerisen
[23:22] that it's bearish. I think you just have
[23:24] to pay attention to it. I think you just
[23:26] have to be ready. Now on the positive
[23:28] side as Warren P Warren Pies put out
[23:30] based on those estimates we're talking
[23:31] about margins up at high levels. Um
[23:34] margins have been the story. I think
[23:36] they remain the story but this is
[23:37] another story too. Now, I don't know if
[23:40] when uh the long view put this out, they
[23:42] were trying to emphasize that this is
[23:44] bearish or bullish, but I'll just tell
[23:46] you
[23:47] spreads being this tight is not bearish.
[23:50] Now, you'll have to look to see if they
[23:52] start to unwind. But here's another
[23:54] thing that just says, think of all the
[23:56] bad news that's happened since this day
[23:58] in private credit. And yet, the BDC's
[24:01] the index just is consolidating. Now,
[24:04] maybe we'll get another run lower, but
[24:06] we've had more gates, more everything,
[24:08] and it hasn't made new lows. And part of
[24:11] the reason is because credit hasn't
[24:13] budged. So, this is the junk index
[24:15] overlaid with the BDC. So, initially
[24:18] when this breaks down, you look to see
[24:21] if the alligator jaws are going to
[24:22] connect. So, when this one happened
[24:24] during this big flush, which was during
[24:26] the software thing, which to me was a
[24:28] risk, and I highlighted this is a risk.
[24:30] We now have this following. We're just
[24:32] sitting here consolidating where this is
[24:34] at all-time highs. And I think this is
[24:36] important because it fits in the paper
[24:37] that I wrote about the rewiring of the
[24:40] uh the economy. If you haven't got a
[24:42] chance to read it, I specifically go
[24:44] through why this cannot be the same as
[24:46] the bubbles of the past. So, it came out
[24:48] this week. It's on the rewiring. Go read
[24:51] it. Now, on the positive side from the
[24:53] long view, CPI is up 4.2 year. While it
[24:56] may be sticky, which I agree completely
[24:58] with this, it likely just peaked.
[25:00] Whether or not it peaked, I'm not really
[25:02] sure yet. But he adds the disclaimer,
[25:04] which I agree if gas prices did too. And
[25:06] I happen to agree with that because you
[25:09] can't argue that gas at the pump has
[25:10] gone down from 455 down to 408 as of
[25:13] this morning. Here is the CPI, core CPI,
[25:17] and this is it with sticky 3month, which
[25:21] is another way to look at at at core
[25:23] CPI. They're both down at this level.
[25:25] So, do I think it's going to stay in
[25:27] this area? Yes. I don't think we're
[25:29] going to fall off, but if I had to
[25:30] guess, if you can't go higher with the
[25:32] straight of horm being shut
[25:35] for all the oil doomers, what are you
[25:37] going to do? Here's right now where the
[25:39] Cleveland Fed expectations are for the
[25:41] CPI print in June. Zero or one.
[25:47] Uh, you think that'll be bullish?
[25:51] financials. I highlighted that we have
[25:53] never seen a time where the S&P didn't
[25:55] get under the 200 day moving average
[25:58] when the financials did. Well, so far
[26:01] we've been able to accomplish it. We did
[26:03] have a correction in the S&P down to it,
[26:06] but financials are now back above.
[26:09] Financials being higher is one side.
[26:11] Here are the banks, the KBE ETF. That is
[26:15] not a bearish chart, guys. So, there's
[26:17] been a rotation. IWM, as I said,
[26:19] all-time highs, not a bearish chart.
[26:23] Violent Factor Unwind is supposed to
[26:24] thin out a market. The generals keep
[26:26] advancing. This is great work by Jeff
[26:28] Degraphth. Uh, but he says as this purge
[26:32] in beta and MO is happening. And I
[26:34] showed last week historic drop in beta,
[26:38] largest on record for my stuff, and I
[26:40] think for him, it is the largest on
[26:41] record going back 50 years from what I
[26:43] remember him saying. At the same time,
[26:45] the equal weight breath expanded back to
[26:48] 63% of the names above their 20-day
[26:50] moving average. That's just a bullish
[26:52] sign. It just means rotation, guys. Um,
[26:55] I thought this was interesting just to
[26:56] show XAI reportedly spent 40 billion to
[26:59] build their data center. So, Colossus
[27:02] and Colossus 2 reportedly he spent 40
[27:04] billion. Based on public disclosure of
[27:07] what Anthropic and Google deal are
[27:08] paying, he will get paid 26 billion per
[27:11] year to license the compute from these
[27:12] data centers. That is a payback period
[27:14] of 18 months. So again, when you're
[27:16] looking at revenues versus the data
[27:18] center build, that means
[27:21] it's not a bubble, at least from the
[27:23] perspective of what these guys are able
[27:25] to charge. Uh Brian Armstrong, who I
[27:27] listened to on a moonshot interview,
[27:28] I'll go through that. Very smart guy. Um
[27:31] he posted this again on the we're going
[27:34] to go we're going to start dividing up
[27:36] the intelligence. My guess is demand for
[27:38] intelligence is near infinite.
[27:39] completely agree. But 80% of the
[27:40] workloads will be running on 99% cheaper
[27:43] models within 12 to 18 months. Also
[27:45] completely agree. Um I'm waiting for the
[27:47] day that I can buy a $4,000 laptop to
[27:49] replace a lot of the money that I'm
[27:51] spending on some of these things per
[27:52] year with a cheaper model. Uh this is
[27:55] really against my openclaw stuff which
[27:58] is costing money and when you add in the
[27:59] Mac Studios and everything once we get a
[28:01] good enough open source model that it
[28:02] can fit on these machines which is
[28:04] coming soon. Mark Andre agreed with his
[28:06] take. I think this is something to pay
[28:08] attention to particularly when we go
[28:09] into the edge guys.
[28:12] Now on the negative side those were
[28:14] basically the good side of PP of CPI and
[28:16] everything. So PPI biggest uh jump on
[28:19] record. We have to pay attention this
[28:20] just because this includes not only the
[28:22] petrochemicals and all the things going
[28:24] on but it also includes the
[28:27] semiconductor side. Um early estimates
[28:29] of the May PCE number again you're
[28:32] talking about a point4. So as much as
[28:34] core CPI is good, you've got PCE which
[28:37] is still tracking higher and that's the
[28:40] Fed proverb model that just keeps the
[28:42] Fed stuck.
[28:45] Just the best way I could say it is.
[28:46] That's why sticky inflation is just
[28:48] going to keep everything on hold while
[28:50] this thing has positives and negatives.
[28:52] Uh the energy situation, the math is
[28:55] getting more scary. I think that's
[28:57] probably why Trump is trying to continue
[29:00] to get the straight open, which has not
[29:02] happened yet. We'll see what happens. Uh
[29:05] he threatened this week to seize car.
[29:07] That got everyone freaked out. You had
[29:09] the will traffic at the straight return
[29:11] to normal. We had the October numbers
[29:14] back down significantly below 50. We had
[29:17] the September ones below below 30 and
[29:20] then all of a sudden they shot back up.
[29:22] He's done a masterful job of keeping uh
[29:24] speculators on their heels and not
[29:26] allowing people to drive up the cost of
[29:28] futures higher uh for fear of our risk.
[29:32] Um rate hikes are back on the table
[29:34] again. We don't know what's going to go
[29:36] on, but we just know that new Fed chair
[29:38] is going and it creates a lot of
[29:39] uncertainty. We'll see if he's hawkish.
[29:41] I'm starting to hear more and more
[29:43] people say that they're going to lean
[29:44] hawkish at the next meeting. Uh we'll
[29:46] see where that is. But again, if you
[29:48] have a CPI number that comes in on the
[29:49] lower side, we'll also have a payroll
[29:51] number by then. We'll see what goes on.
[29:53] Uh AI servers squeeze high-end MLCC
[29:58] supply. You're still getting bottlenecks
[30:00] on important parts of the AI buildout.
[30:05] Uh this is the one that I want people to
[30:07] focus on. This is the rare earth side.
[30:09] This is indium phosphide. Remember that
[30:12] I mentioned that coherent CEO was
[30:14] brought on the trip. We're getting more
[30:15] and more stories and this is going that
[30:18] indium phosphate phosphide is one of the
[30:20] several supply chain bottlenecks
[30:22] collectively constraining AI data center
[30:25] construction. It is a necessity. It's
[30:27] another component that China dominates
[30:31] and it's an issue. Uh Dario Modi put out
[30:35] a couple pieces this week. One of them
[30:37] was on the policy side of AI
[30:42] and on there they talked about Fable.
[30:45] Remember Mythos? I used it a lot
[30:47] yesterday or over the last two days and
[30:49] then of course overnight statement on
[30:52] the US government directive to suspend
[30:54] access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5. Amazon
[30:57] apparently told him a place that they
[30:58] were able to break in through
[30:59] vulnerabilities and so the government
[31:03] immediately jumped at the opportunity to
[31:05] say it was dangerous. Remember 34%
[31:08] chance to stay. I'm only bringing this
[31:09] up because I think AI again remains that
[31:12] as these numbers continue to get to this
[31:14] level and it becomes something critical
[31:16] for biology. Again, look at these
[31:19] numbers in terms of biology versus
[31:22] what's going we just continue to make
[31:24] higher and higher levels on this front.
[31:26] Um, and again I'm bringing this up
[31:28] because I think it's a negative for the
[31:30] hyperscalers and for the model makers. I
[31:34] think eventually the government is going
[31:35] to view it as way too important. So, I
[31:38] mentioned building a Jensen Yuan
[31:39] knowledge brain on the webinar
[31:41] subscriber list. If you didn't get to
[31:43] see it, this is on the website. Now, a
[31:45] step-by-step guide to how you can build
[31:47] your own Jensen Yuang knowledgebrain. I
[31:49] showed in the webinar. If you haven't
[31:50] seen the re re uh play, it is on the
[31:53] site. You can go see how it goes. This
[31:55] is important as you guys go through this
[31:58] because I used it a lot this year um in
[32:02] a different way, but I showed people how
[32:04] to build it using co-work. Uh it took me
[32:06] 30 minutes to do it that way. So I put
[32:08] it together in a document where you can
[32:09] upload it and go do it yourself. I think
[32:11] if you're able or as you're able to do
[32:13] it, it will also make you a better uh AI
[32:17] person. I would have your kids do it as
[32:20] well. Everyone who knows how to do this
[32:22] and I go through the instructions, it
[32:24] will put you ahead of the AI game. I'm
[32:27] going to say from 99% of the people on
[32:29] the planet just by being able to do what
[32:32] takes 30 minutes and that's without any
[32:34] training. just upload it immediately
[32:36] into an LLM and ask them how to do it.
[32:38] And it might take you longer than 30
[32:39] minutes, but when you're done, you'll be
[32:41] proud of yourself that you were able to
[32:42] do it and run a Python script and all
[32:44] that stuff. It's all there for you. Um,
[32:46] this is the Moonshots episode. Again,
[32:48] remember, every time I show you a
[32:50] podcast on here that is great, like the
[32:52] Gersonner and and uh Gavin Baker one.
[32:56] There's a podcast recap that goes on the
[32:58] website. There's an email that goes out
[33:00] Sunday morning at 9:00 to the
[33:01] subscribers. Just remember this way you
[33:03] don't have to go listen to it if you
[33:04] don't want. You can just upload the link
[33:06] and do the transcript. I give you the
[33:08] timestamps if you want to watch there.
[33:10] But Brian Armstrong, a lot of good stuff
[33:12] on here in particular for the Bitcoin
[33:14] anti- bitcoin crowd. He goes through the
[33:16] quantum risk to Bitcoin in the most
[33:18] coherent way. Gives some websites like
[33:20] BIP 360 you can go to and read yourself.
[33:22] He also talks about the importance of
[33:23] the AI agents in crypto rails. Again,
[33:25] this is a major theme for me uh over the
[33:28] course of the next year. It's in the
[33:30] application layer. I believe that crypto
[33:32] will be a major story. And in September,
[33:35] for everyone who is cryptofocused or on
[33:37] the hedge fund side and the mutual fund
[33:39] side who's looking for digital assets in
[33:41] terms of the story, I am converting what
[33:43] I do in the YouTube into a cryptoforward
[33:45] one. I'm creating the data now uh in
[33:49] partnership with a variety of different
[33:50] people to be able to give you a YouTube
[33:52] that shows you what's happening at a
[33:53] sector level or a thematic level and
[33:55] then give you a thematic portfolio of
[33:57] both tokens and public equities
[33:59] preparing for the tokenized world. Um
[34:02] this was another podcast uh that I think
[34:05] you should listen to. I believe we're
[34:07] entering this stage as the AI midcycle
[34:10] slowdown takes over. That means it's not
[34:12] as easy to make money on stocks in the
[34:14] earning side. you will be able to
[34:16] produce returns, but the sharp ratio
[34:18] goes down. And I believe you're going to
[34:19] have more and more on chemicals, more
[34:21] and more on silver, more and more on
[34:23] copper, more and more on the commodity
[34:25] layer. That is where I want to focus in.
[34:27] That's where I've rotated money at the
[34:29] same time as the other scarcity trade
[34:31] that is a software bull, which is
[34:33] crypto. So all of those themes to me fit
[34:37] in with Dan Drifus who spoke at the
[34:40] all-in
[34:41] and if you go through he highlights
[34:44] China's control over critical minerals.
[34:46] This is the indium phosphide again as a
[34:49] major issue forcing the US government
[34:51] they have to support mining. It's very
[34:53] important. So look for the companies to
[34:56] have checks to have everything. And he
[34:58] makes a claim that we might need as much
[35:00] copper in the next 18 years as humanity
[35:02] mined over the last 10,000. And you have
[35:04] to start building in the reality of the
[35:06] orbital data centers. Uh I I'm telling
[35:10] you, you got to spend time on the
[35:12] orbital data centers. And one of the
[35:13] reasons is the price of silver has just
[35:15] collapsed. Here's why the Space X IPO
[35:18] could be the start of a silver boom. He
[35:21] highlighted this uh about how much
[35:23] silver there is and how much more silver
[35:25] would be ne necessary for data centers
[35:27] in space rather rather than terrestrial.
[35:31] Um, and then you have to remember, and
[35:33] this is something that I've been talking
[35:35] to uh institutional accounts about, a
[35:39] Chinese battery company on April 14th,
[35:41] backed by one of the world's largest
[35:42] automakers, rolled out the first sample
[35:45] all solid state battery cells off a
[35:47] production line in Guangjo. The company
[35:49] is targeting this. Go look up how much
[35:53] silver is needed for solid state. Silver
[35:56] market may be undervaluing demand. and
[35:58] then go look at what China's imports
[36:00] were for the most recent period in
[36:02] silver.
[36:04] More on the indium phosphate. Go read
[36:06] about it. It's an AI bottleneck. Signal
[36:09] Alpha Agency. Uh I've had many many
[36:12] subscribers and new people really more
[36:14] around the world and I did a
[36:16] presentation for Korean brokers and for
[36:18] Korean investors that wanted to know
[36:20] from the subscriber basis why it's
[36:22] important. And I just want to make sure
[36:24] that you guys hear this. everything that
[36:26] I'm doing including the YouTube and then
[36:27] the reports and then all of the things
[36:29] to keep you up. This is the signal
[36:31] rather than listening or watching a
[36:33] bubble post like Peter Barrison's where
[36:35] he just sends something out there where
[36:37] he's hunting and going for negatives.
[36:39] I've given you a bunch of negatives and
[36:40] a bunch of positives on this so that you
[36:43] always feel like you're on top of the
[36:45] most important trends that are
[36:46] happening. It is impossible to keep up
[36:48] on everything that I'm showing you guys.
[36:50] There's 125 slides a week. I know it
[36:53] goes fast as I go through this, but
[36:55] think about it. You're getting a lot of
[36:56] signal in here. Why it matters now in
[36:58] the AI economy and what regime are we in
[37:00] right now? I think we're in the AI
[37:01] midcycle slowdown. Now, from an alpha
[37:02] basis, this is giving you the names and
[37:05] this is talking about the five layer
[37:06] cake and breaking it down and making
[37:07] sure that you can make money as a trader
[37:09] and as investor. That's what the tools
[37:10] are for in terms of giving you the the
[37:13] Excel sheets. And then the final part is
[37:15] the agency. And this is where I'm trying
[37:16] to help you make knowledge brains. Go
[37:19] watch the YouTube video on how to start
[37:20] with AI. The whole goal by giving you
[37:22] the prompts and all the things that are
[37:24] on the site is to make sure that you are
[37:26] able to do it yourself, but more
[37:28] importantly for your kids, for your
[37:30] employees and your workers. That is the
[37:32] whole purpose of this. And so I wanted
[37:33] to make sure that you guys see that as I
[37:34] went through just what this week was.
[37:37] The economy is being rewired around
[37:39] compute and energy and that's a very
[37:41] different world. This goes through how
[37:42] the business cycles no longer exist in
[37:44] the from the industrial perspective. You
[37:46] have to understand where the bare
[37:49] markets will be quote unquote. the
[37:50] pullbacks will be. What is different
[37:52] than fears over recessions? Because
[37:54] we're not going to have fears over
[37:55] recessions in an AI. We're growing too
[37:57] fast. Chemical breakout. Here's the
[38:00] chemical market. So, I have the chemote
[38:02] and I want to show two things. One is
[38:04] the consolidation basically for five
[38:07] years now. We just broke out. We've now
[38:09] consolidated above. I think chemicals
[38:11] are the oil of the next 10 years. We are
[38:15] not transporting consumer garbage around
[38:18] the planet. We are now needing massive
[38:22] amounts of chemicals and for those
[38:24] chemicals you need to know how that goes
[38:25] in. I think the chemical part is where
[38:27] you should be focused a lot right now as
[38:29] well as the power side. Remember I wrote
[38:31] this paper so this is on there guys if
[38:34] you want to go redo it or maybe you
[38:35] didn't read about it because semis were
[38:37] the hot thing. You have to get good at
[38:39] moving from the different themes with
[38:41] inside to what I produced. I definitely
[38:43] believe this is a theme you want to
[38:45] focus on in terms of chemicals and this
[38:47] is the reason why in the old industrial
[38:49] economy growth was transport heavy and
[38:51] combustiondriven oil intensity fell from
[38:54] 1973 to 29 2019 we've seen that so the
[38:57] AI industrial economy putting
[38:59] intelligence into everything the 91
[39:01] trillion buildout it is now compute
[39:05] heavy it is electricheavy and it is
[39:08] infrastructured driven data centers
[39:10] could are the massive build so we're
[39:12] rebuilding building the grid. Everything
[39:14] in that shifts from barrels burned to
[39:16] molecules engineered. All of these
[39:19] places, semiconductors, advanced
[39:21] packaging, data centers, grid and power,
[39:23] robotics, those major themes, they're
[39:24] all part of chemicals. They're all part
[39:27] of different thing. You can go through
[39:28] all of these if you want. This is a
[39:30] massive shift and you need to be ready
[39:33] for it. And trust me, this is a late
[39:35] cycle part and once it gets going, I
[39:38] don't think it'll start stop and I think
[39:40] you're going to have issues. Now, one of
[39:42] those names is Entrogress, which I
[39:46] highlighted back in here. I wrote a
[39:47] paper on it, and it did its pullback.
[39:50] It's still near all-time highs without
[39:53] broken out, without breaking out. But on
[39:55] Friday, or and last week, it had a
[39:58] massive rip, and I think something is
[40:00] changing on it. I think people are
[40:02] starting to get on board. Again,
[40:03] spotlight piece I did on it, which was
[40:05] out about a month and a half ago. You
[40:07] can go read that. But then also this
[40:09] week you're going to be able to read
[40:11] something else which I'll highlight.
[40:12] This is why I'm saying it's now starting
[40:14] to become clear. So remember Vera Rubin
[40:17] and the roll out is becoming a focus for
[40:19] people. So everyone focused on memory.
[40:22] Everyone focused on power semis.
[40:24] Everyone focused on all the
[40:25] semiconductors but at some point you
[40:28] stop missing well for all those semis
[40:31] we're going to need. And you start going
[40:32] through the shortages in the places. And
[40:34] so now what's starting to show up is hey
[40:36] this is getting more complex and we need
[40:38] a lot more NAND these are the ones
[40:41] reportedly set to supply the materials
[40:44] to SKH. So when you're looking for the
[40:46] suppliers and the derivatives this is
[40:48] where you want to go to show how
[40:49] important NAND has been as people start
[40:52] to go up to speed on it and Integra's
[40:54] calls. How often did they say the word
[40:56] NAND on their call? 39 times in the last
[40:58] two quarters.
[41:01] uh the best NAND quotes. You guys can
[41:03] read them on your own. They frame NAND
[41:05] as a 2026 transition tailwind.
[41:09] This is the paper that I'm writing and
[41:12] again
[41:14] not writing. It will go out probably
[41:16] Sunday in the afternoon. Ver Rubin
[41:18] confirms the missing chemical layer of
[41:20] the AI complexity. It's an update on it
[41:22] and this is getting through why the
[41:25] trigger point now is Ver Rubin which is
[41:28] increasing the complexity that's going
[41:31] on for
[41:33] the next phase of the AI infrastructure.
[41:36] You're looking for places that are
[41:38] cheap. This is a perfect way to look at
[41:40] this is enigress relative to my thematic
[41:42] portfolio. Uh over the course of last
[41:45] years it had been a lagard as of June
[41:47] and then last week we got the bump. I
[41:49] believe as we break out on this, people
[41:51] will start to shift their focus to the
[41:52] bonding and all the component parts as
[41:54] they go. Why do I feel comfortable about
[41:56] that? Well, let's start with the
[41:57] technical sheet for this week. When you
[41:59] go through the top 12 names and you
[42:01] realize that five of the 12 of the
[42:03] hundred with the scores of 95 to 100 are
[42:07] chemical names. Entrogress is one of
[42:09] them.
[42:11] Um, if you go through and start reading
[42:13] about
[42:15] what we have in frontend WFE for wafers,
[42:19] go through and read, upload that
[42:22] particular one into uh, an LLM and ask
[42:25] what the benefits are for Integris. When
[42:27] you go through where we are technically
[42:29] overall right now for the thematic
[42:31] portfolio, chemicals are the third best
[42:34] on an aggregate basis. I just think at
[42:36] this point when you're looking for it,
[42:37] you're looking for names. Now,
[42:39] percentage above the 50-day, 82.
[42:42] Percentage above the 200 day, 88. I just
[42:46] think this name has lagged behind. We
[42:48] have no breakdowns. We have nine
[42:49] breakouts. So, it has held in there
[42:52] extremely well, and I think that's a
[42:54] place that you want to focus on. In
[42:56] terms of the exhaustion scores, right
[42:58] now, the whole thematic portfolio has
[43:00] reset. So, we don't have anything too
[43:02] exhausted. So, from a trading
[43:03] perspective, if you're looking for entry
[43:05] points on names, you can go through.
[43:07] Now, we've also seen breath breakdown.
[43:10] So, let's go through uh a way that you
[43:12] guys can just upload, if you haven't
[43:14] done this yet, upload every one of those
[43:16] sheets, the fundamental peg ratio sheet,
[43:18] the exhaustion sheet, and the technical
[43:21] sheet into one folder on your computer.
[43:23] Go to Claude Co-work, click on add
[43:26] folder, and go have it connect to that
[43:28] folder. And then just go ask it a
[43:29] question of okay, go through the
[43:31] technical sheet first and show me what
[43:33] the breath has been. And so in this
[43:35] case, I wanted to look at what was how
[43:37] many what percent were above the 20-day,
[43:39] above the 50-day, above the 200 day, and
[43:41] then what percentage of these were
[43:43] rising. And so again, as you go through
[43:45] this overall, now I could have done this
[43:46] for any one of the themes. Also, we've
[43:49] seen a breath breakdown. All of a
[43:50] sudden, we bump back up on the 20-day.
[43:52] The 50-day, we're still making lower.
[43:54] There's more names below the 50-day
[43:56] every week. This is why I think it
[43:58] confirms the consolidation that's
[43:59] happening. But from a bull market
[44:01] perspective, 84% are above the 200 day
[44:04] and 87% have a rising 200 day. This is a
[44:08] pullback with inside a bull market in
[44:10] any way, shape, or form. Now, next time
[44:13] go in, you're an expert and a hedge fund
[44:14] analyst. I want to use these three
[44:15] folders for your information. I believe
[44:17] we are in a place where this basket of
[44:19] names is going to consolidate. Go
[44:20] through the themes first and give me an
[44:22] analysis of ranking the themes for an
[44:23] investment now based on the information.
[44:25] Then give me the top two names within
[44:27] each theme. If you want to use the best
[44:29] models, GBT5. This was done with Fable
[44:32] 5, which is no longer available to you.
[44:34] But regardless, use 4.8. Use whatever
[44:36] you're using. Just use the best model.
[44:37] Have it go through. It'll spend 10
[44:39] minutes and it'll come back and say with
[44:40] inside here are the rankings that it
[44:43] says the whole rack. Chemicals and
[44:44] materials as a second one. You get to go
[44:47] through it. And then with inside these
[44:48] for chemicals, it says ENTG, MKSI, MU,
[44:52] TSM. just go through and do that type of
[44:55] work and have a superb analyst go
[44:57] through. Then you can take those names
[44:59] and then you can go put them in your
[45:00] knowledge brain and say, "Hey, based on
[45:02] what Jensen Yuang has said this year,
[45:03] and again, if you don't know what a
[45:04] knowledge brain is, this is every
[45:07] transcript so far this year." That's the
[45:08] way I created it. That's what I gave you
[45:10] guys of every single transcript that
[45:13] Jensen Yuang has done that was at least
[45:14] 30 minutes long. So, this is from
[45:16] YouTube. I used the YouTube API key. It
[45:19] goes in, it brings them all in. So all
[45:21] of that, let's assume that there's 15 of
[45:23] them. They're an hour on average an hour
[45:25] long, which is shorter than they are
[45:26] because I'd say they're more like an
[45:28] hour and 30 minutes. You're getting a
[45:30] lot of interview on interviews. Jensen
[45:32] Yuan speaks more freely. He talks about
[45:34] things. He doesn't specifically name
[45:35] companies maybe, but he talks about all
[45:37] themes. If you go in there and say,
[45:38] "Does Integris fit what Jensen Yuang has
[45:41] said in his progression on this point
[45:42] more now than it was at the beginning?"
[45:44] You'll get an answer from the brain. I
[45:46] use the brain for everything like that.
[45:48] Mythos 5 again our internal protein
[45:52] design experts accelerated acid. This is
[45:54] all on the drug discovery and all on the
[45:57] benefits of biology. I highly recommend
[45:59] this startup company which is Chai. Chai
[46:02] discovery. Look how young these guys
[46:05] are. You have to go look that where they
[46:07] spun out of in terms of the LLM models
[46:10] and go realize why again Fizer and Eli
[46:12] Liy have invested into this one as well.
[46:17] Go listen to the interviews. Just go
[46:18] into podcast, type in chai. I listened
[46:20] to a bunch of them this week. You'll get
[46:22] to hear the advances that have gone
[46:24] through. David Sinclair, one of the
[46:26] first people I read on longevity and had
[46:28] a huge influence on me in terms of
[46:30] believing that we were going to solve
[46:31] the problem of aging. After 25 years of
[46:33] brave and brilliant work by hundreds
[46:35] scientists in my lab to understand and
[46:36] safely reverse aging for the first time,
[46:38] it was moving to witness the first human
[46:40] dose being delivered. We are at the
[46:42] point with the eyes where he is putting
[46:46] in a therapy to make cells young. And if
[46:49] you haven't read about this, read it.
[46:50] Huge implications again for this. What a
[46:54] better place to get into Eli Liy and the
[46:56] entire health care sector which should
[46:58] benefit. Look how much it's
[47:00] underperformed. And if you go look at
[47:02] the way it's traded and how it's done
[47:04] recently, it's starting to outperform. I
[47:06] just think healthcare is a great place
[47:08] to be looking at this point, guys. and
[47:10] Bitcoin still hanging on the 200 week. I
[47:12] will say it again and again. We are
[47:14] below the 200 day. We are in a bare
[47:15] market in Bitcoin. There's no way to
[47:16] look at this and think we're not until
[47:18] we get above the 200 day and eventually
[47:20] above this level. I personally continue
[47:24] to buy little bits in here. I already
[47:25] have some. I just continue to go through
[47:27] this. I'm fully aware that it may break
[47:30] through and come down here and then come
[47:31] back up. It did that back here. I just
[47:33] want to highlight to you guys that I
[47:34] fully believe that crypto is a major
[47:37] part of the application layer of AI
[47:40] benefiting from Aentic. I've said it
[47:42] before, I'll say it again and again.
[47:43] That's it for this week, guys. I'll see
[47:45] you next week. Gonix.