Too big to fail? I think I heard that once.

I just can't see things continuing like this, there has to be a plateau reached at some point. Higher or lower. Exponential growth isn't sustainable in anything.

Nevertheless, companies such as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft – as well as Nvidia and AMD – are a very long way from simply going under.

Not really, once you look at the startups like OpenAI they have enormous expenses that depend on constant debt and investment funding, and the cost and risk of sustaining that debt can easily reach a point where they struggle to get new investors to foot the bill.

The whole market is based on a belief in a huge pot of gold some time in the future, and it is driven by unfathomable amounts of debt to keep the machinery running towards that goal. Once the belief in the goal getting reached gets broken, the change in momentum breaks the whole system.

That includes the big players, huge amounts of their balance sheets, including claims of revenue, are circular trades between themselves. Even google claims revenue from asset price growth in their AI subsidiaries.

Once it shifts from investment to repaying bad debts the numbers will look completely different for all the big companies involved. We’re talking potentially bail outs basically across the board

The term bailout needs to stop being used and normalized. This is nothing like the housing market and audio industry crash.

These rich fucks don’t need socialism for the rich yet again, they need to eat their losses.

Google, Amazon and Microsoft will be fine.

Oracle, though. It’s possible they’ll actually die. And wouldn’t that be tragic.

I think NVIDIA has a higher chance of survival because they’re the ones actually producing something tangible (GPUs) that is still needed even if openweight models prevail.

they’re doing far more than just that, the way jensen has been able to structure all almost all of these deals essentially offloading all the risk. they sell essentially lease the hardware, ontop of huge chunk of premium up front, ontop of paying for compute itself, ontop of offloading any actual buildout cost onto any greedy schmuck willimg to pay the tab. nvda will be completely fine (though stock price will obviously correct as bubble-levels income drops)

shovels, gold, etc

At the same time, they are doing extreme price gouging with little improvement between generations since h200. Huawei actually has better $/performance ratio and accelerating faster. Others have better inference solution, with AMD doing better on $/training performance too. The fact that Nvidia is the one propping up the AI bubble, sinking their cashflow into dead ends, makes it a bad stock too. Peak NVidia BS got exposed in an Australian IPO this week. It was too absurd to get anyone to buy and got cancelled. Heavily backed by NVidia.

Yeah, they’ll be fine assuming there isn’t an Enron level legal motion. They are sort of not on the hook for anything financially. I’m not sure how legal it all is though. I’m pretty sure it isn’t, but even if it isn’t it’s still a question if they’ll be held accountable.

And whoever scavenges their corpse will milk their customers prisoners even harder!

I doubt it. Government would step in and bail them out.

yep, with our money.

This isn’t going to happen. They’re not the banks, and they’re pretty universally hated in the country.

But their owners didn’t kiss the ring for nothing.

When the AI bubble pops it’s going to take down the banks.

There is a lot of private credit dollars loaned to data centers and the banks are heavily invested in private credit.

It’s a house of cards priced for perfection just waiting for one of the big 5 to have a slightly off quarter.

I would comment about Oracle, but I don’t want legal bills.

Fuck 'em with a rusty rake

they wont be fine, they will suffer heavy lossess but will survive, likely just by laying off hordes tech people, and even downsizing thier warehouses. i think nvidia will get off mostly less harmed though, since they sold thier products years ahead.

Oracle, though. It’s possible they’ll actually die. And wouldn’t that be tragic.

Oh the humanity

Why do you think they are starving consumer market for computer parts?

lol you’re kidding, right? Have you looked at component prices lately? Have you missed the part about how basically all consumer electronics that use LPDDR are getting price hikes, because the demand for high performance memory has skyrocketed by an order of magnitude in the last few years?

Edit: yeah I realized I was replying to a rhetorical question 🙃

He didn’t mean to question the premise that the consumer market is being starved, he was highlighting the reality of that and connecting it as being motivated by a fear of local models.

Admittedly, the question was ambiguous and could be taken either way, but the comment didn’t mention that consumer market was starved, his question brought it into the discussion.

Note that I don’t think that it is fear of local models personally, I think it’s fear of each other. I think cloud infrastructure providers already proved that even when people can locally host stuff, they mostly don’t. So many consumer electronics could meet their promises all locally, but still force the users to connect to their internet services. The tech market has already proven time and time again they are suckers for subscription eshitification, no need to panic over it being different for AI.

I think we are talking about the same thing. AI companies spend billions to monopolize compute, causing consumer hardware prices to go up.