For those of you following the GenAI cycle at a high level (and all tech investors should be), this is a helpful high-level video. It’s the 26 min keynote from a small conference Sequoia Capital held in March. It gives us the Valley perspective on why there is so much excitement and potential. Gotta love lines like: “We are standing at the precipice of the single greatest value creation opportunity mankind has ever known”. But it also is helpful in that it highlights a few of the early challenges including that they estimate the industry invested $50 billion into AI infrastructure last year (most of it went to NVIDIA) plus energy costs, plus data center costs - while total revenue generated by Gen AI was around $3 billion (plus harder to determine GenAI revs at the FANG companies).
The AI opportunity: Sequoia Capital's AI Ascent 2024 opening remarks
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i just looked at the nvda 10k 1 customer was 13 pct and another who bought from many channels 8ncluding the 13 pct cust purchased 19pct. yikes!
Tom, you make a great point. Like the analysis in the early 2000's that telco capex cant continue to fund the equipment vendors since sum of all capex is greater than cash flow . This time i think we need to look at the cost savings that LLMs are creating. I am picking up that ROI's are high maybe 30%. NVDA has 60B in TTM revenue and is expected to grow at 30 to 40%. Are users generating savings of 20 billion per annum growing at a similar rate? Its possible, but we need evidence.