¶ SpaceX IPO Frenzy
Josh: The question on everyone's minds, should you buy the SpaceX IPO? Josh: By the time you are hearing this, chances are SpaceX is about to go public or Josh: they have just gone public at what is going to be the largest IPO in history. Josh: And it's not even close. I think we have very strong takes and opinions on where Josh: SpaceX goes. I find the question that everyone is asking me is, Josh: should I buy? Is this overvalued?
Josh: It's going to be trading, I mean, right now, close to $2.1 trillion beforehand. Josh: That's an outrageous valuation.
Josh: And I feel very confident that we have some pretty good takes that are going Josh: to point in the direction of Josh: actually yeah not only is it a good buy in fact it's undervalued and a lot of Josh: the news that we got this week from the s1 from the new spacex releases backs Josh: that up so there's a lot of really strong prevailing wins pushing spacex forward Josh: and we are going to now address the question should you buy spacex shares should
Josh: you get invested in the ipo and more importantly why. Ejaaz: Yes, the answer is yes. But before Ejaaz: we get into it, let's talk about the numbers of the IPO very quickly. Ejaaz: So they're raising $75 billion, which is three times larger than the largest Ejaaz: IPO that has happened so far. That was from Saudi Aramco back in 2019, Ejaaz: and they raised just under $30 billion.
Ejaaz: This is roughly around 3x that, but the demand for the $75 billion raise is Ejaaz: already 4x, as you're seeing on the screen. Ejaaz: There's over $250 billion worth of demand with one institution or a couple of Ejaaz: multiple institutions offering up $10 billion chunks just to get involved here. Ejaaz: Now, if you're looking at like the price per share, roughly, Ejaaz: SpaceX's S1 prospectus has put it at around $135 a share.
Ejaaz: Now, what's interesting about this is typically with an IPO prospectus, Ejaaz: you provide a range, you provide a range and you try and find where the match is. Ejaaz: SpaceX just went right to the high end of that Josh: Range and said it's. Ejaaz: $135 per share, which values it at $1.75 trillion. Ejaaz: But recent reports from Financial Times and Bloomberg says that this number Ejaaz: is actually now close to $162 per share, which gives them a crazy $2.1 billion valuation.
Ejaaz: Now, the demand for this thing, Josh, is absolutely insane. Ejaaz: They reserved, I think it was around 30% of the share allocation that they're
Ejaaz: IPOing with for the retail, for the regular average person. And then that was Ejaaz: distributed to the likes of financial institutions and banks like Charles Schwab, Ejaaz: as well as brokers such as Robin Hood and Ejaaz: The demand initially required you to have like something crazy, Ejaaz: like half a million dollars in your bank account in some cases to get access to this thing. Ejaaz: But they reduced that kind of like limit. But it is the most in-demand thing.
Ejaaz: SpaceX is the most in-demand company in general, like whether it's just to buy Ejaaz: the IPO or whether it's just to like work there. It is a crazy scene that we Ejaaz: haven't seen before. Largest IPO raise ever. Josh: Yes. And it is also by far the most accessible IPO ever. We mentioned this in Josh: a previous episode, but 30% of the entire share float is being made available Josh: for the public, for retail, as a part of this IPO.
Josh: This is three to five times more than the average, and that means that a lot Josh: of people are able to participate. So there's a chance if you're watching this, Josh: you've actually been allocated IPO shares of SpaceX at the listing price. Josh: You don't have to pay that premium. Josh: We're going to see the market making happen today as you're watching this to Josh: see what it's actually going to launch at.
Josh: But I suspect a lot of people watching Josh: this episode are actually already shareholders and owners of SpaceX. Josh: And that's such a cool thing that everyone is able to participate.
¶ AI Data Centers in Space
Josh: Now, in terms of the valuations of SpaceX, why we believe this is undervalued, Josh: why we believe SpaceX is going to be such a remarkable company, there's a few pillars. Josh: The first is Starlink. It is internet and space from the sky. Josh: The second is manufacturing, their ability to manufacture Starship and get payload Josh: to orbit at a very low cost per kilogram. Josh: And the third, which is one that I really want to talk about right now, Josh: is AI data centers in space.
Josh: We've talked about this a lot. what does this look like? How does it work? Josh: Well, earlier this week, we finally got an answer, and it comes in the form Josh: of a satellite named AI-1. Josh: AI-1 is the satellite that SpaceX is going to park on Starship, Josh: send into orbit and actually put these things into space. And they're going Josh: to be training data centers. They're going to be beaming data back down to earth.
Josh: And now we finally have a rendering and we have some specs on what it's going to look like. Josh: In terms of power, there is 150 kilowatt peak with 120 kilowatt average on each Josh: one of these satellites for reference. Josh: That's about 100 American homes worth of power per satellite. Josh: And then we're getting about 70 kilowatts per ton. So that's the efficiency Josh: part of the launch metrics where,
Josh: The more energy we can get per ton, the cheaper it costs. It's lowering those costs. Josh: We have compute slots that are interchangeable. And I think this is a really Josh: underrated part is the GPU modules that you're seeing on the screen on the animation Josh: we were just showing, they're actually hot swappable. Josh: So you could have NVIDIA chips, you can have Google chips, you could have Amazon chips there.
Josh: What they're going to test this with initially is going to be NVIDIA's Vera Josh: Rubin platform. That's going to be on version one of these things.
Josh: And in terms of the radiator because clearly no one believes that spacex is Josh: capable of figuring out thermodynamics in space given the fact that they have Josh: how many thousands of satellites currently operating in there well they figured Josh: it out they said they're going to have 110 square, Josh: meter liquid radiator and basically it's just gigantic sails that we're seeing on screen right now, Josh: to dissipate the heat into deep space deep space is a huge place even if you're
Josh: in low earth orbits geosynchronous orbit and the wingspan of those will extend Josh: to about 70 meters wide which is wider than a Boeing 747. Josh: So this is AI data centers in space. When we say that, this is what it looks like. Josh: This is how it's going to function. It's a really big deal.
Ejaaz: I want to shine a bit more light on this satellite because previously, Ejaaz: like Elon has just made bold claims saying that, you know, the valuation that Ejaaz: we're raising SpaceX at now at a $2.1 trillion valuation is primarily based Ejaaz: on AI data centers in space. Ejaaz: And then they kind of signed a few deals recently with Google and Anthropik Ejaaz: saying, yeah, they're going to be buying these data centers in space,
Ejaaz: but we still didn't know how. Now we have the answer and we have a bunch of Ejaaz: the numbers and how it's built. Now, to be clear, what does this satellite look like? Ejaaz: Picture a refrigerator that you have at home with 70 meter wings. Ejaaz: This thing is 95% wing, basically. Ejaaz: And that refrigerator is essentially a GPU server rack. Ejaaz: It stores around 72 NVIDIA GB300 GPUs. And the total compute power that it has
Ejaaz: is around 150 kilowatts. Now, immediately after announcing the satellite, Ejaaz: Elon also stated that he's filed to launch 1 million of these data center racks, Ejaaz: these satellites, these AR-1 satellites into space. Ejaaz: If he is able to pull that off, the total compute power that will be orbiting Ejaaz: in space will be around 120 gigawatts. Ejaaz: That's around 3 to 4x of the total data centers that currently exist on the Ejaaz: entire surface of Earth right now.
Ejaaz: So that is a hell of a lot of compute, but more so currently there's around Ejaaz: 14,000 satellites in total existence across every single other company in low orbit space right now. Ejaaz: So Elon is like aiming for like multiples more of that for this particular satellite. Ejaaz: Now, the wingspan is really important. You must be thinking like, Ejaaz: you know, 70 meters is absolutely ridiculous. Ejaaz: Radiation, you need to disperse the heat. It's kind of like hard to do that
Ejaaz: in space. In fact, it's impossible to do that in space. So you need some kind Ejaaz: of like really ingenious cooling mechanisms. That's what that wingspan is for. Ejaaz: Yes, it is large, but also Ejaaz: You're in space. You have all of that space to be able to do that.
Ejaaz: And the way that these satellites are designed is different to the ground data Ejaaz: centers in the sense that they're going to be beaming lasers between each other Ejaaz: to form an interconnected grid that they can transfer data between each other. Ejaaz: And that is the sole mechanism that is required to train and inference models, Ejaaz: which is the entire point around SpaceX.
Ejaaz: Now, it's important to understand when you're looking at the valuation, Ejaaz: when you're looking at the price, you might be thinking, well, Ejaaz: I don't know if this is overvalued. Ejaaz: It kind of seems like overvalued, even though I like what Elon is doing, Ejaaz: you have to understand that the whole premise is you're getting three companies Ejaaz: for one share. It's SpaceX, yes, to be the kind of like highway to space.
Ejaaz: But then you have like the payloads, which is like all these GPUs that they're Ejaaz: going to be training on the sun's energy, becoming a Kardashev type one civilization, Ejaaz: which all sounds grand, but like Ejaaz: we now have the numbers and the mechanism to be able to pull that off. Ejaaz: And then you have the model itself under XAI. And then you have the distribution Ejaaz: through social media platform, through app stores and all that kind of stuff.
Ejaaz: And it's not like Elon is depending primarily on his own companies to service Ejaaz: all this demand for Grok entirely. Ejaaz: He's signed major deals in the last, I think, three weeks with Anthropic, Ejaaz: Google, and Cursor, which equates to around $56 billion per year. Ejaaz: So the previous critics were like, I don't know if SpaceX is going to be profitable in general.
¶ Starlink’s Explosive Growth
Ejaaz: Now we have the answer, like all this money that's been coming from essentially Ejaaz: neocloud payments for Elon's existing colossus one two and three data centers Ejaaz: on earth is paying for itself it's paying for this entire expedition Josh: Oh it's an absolute monster of a company and now i want to talk about a second Josh: pillar because we've seen ai1 what that looks like what data centers in space Josh: look like we also have visual graphics of
Josh: the new startling satellites and we've been talking about these new startling Josh: satellites for a long time now version two and most recently version three which Josh: is going up on starship and the Josh: stats and analytics between these two comparing them is pretty remarkable the Josh: the first generation of this, version 1.5 of Starlink, had 24 gigabits per second download, which,
Josh: pretty small. If we look at version two of the satellites, which are what's Josh: available today, that's what's going up in the Falcon 9 rockets, Josh: the smaller ones, those have about 96 gigabytes per second, and they're able Josh: to deploy about 27 of those per launch. Josh: So that gives you about a total per launch of 2,600 gigabits per second. Josh: Now, when you look at version three satellites of Starlink, that's where the Josh: numbers get pretty silly.
Josh: It's a 20 times multiple per launch on bandwidth relative to version two this Josh: is enabled with starship we talk about starship all the time.
Josh: They've been doing really successful test runs they're going to continue that Josh: program once it starts becoming reusable they're going to put these satellites on it Josh: and it's going to deliver 61 000 gigabits per second to the internet that is Josh: 60 satellites that is a 20x multiple that is how you get to a true worldwide Josh: web that exists in space and when you think about what spacex is doing here
Josh: they're creating a high bandwidth clone of the internet that exists here except Josh: in space What happens with the internet here? Josh: We actually run wires underground through the oceans to connect the world. Josh: If we have satellites, you remove a lot of the threat vectors, Josh: you remove a lot of the sensorability, you create this truly open and accessible Josh: network that's not only available to anyone with infrastructure, Josh: but available to anyone with access to the sky.
Josh: And building that and making that available to everyone is such a remarkable Josh: business. And we've seen that reflected in the Starlink subscriber numbers. Josh: We have a chart here that shows the Starlink growth. Josh: And it has been the most perfect exponential chart I think I've probably ever Josh: seen in my life. And it is the Starlink subscriber growth. Josh: As of when is this? May 23rd. Josh: It is now sitting at 12 million users. And you could see they've been adding
Josh: an exponential increment. I mean, the latest 2 million users were added only Josh: in the last 81 days. They're averaging 25,000 and climbing. Josh: So Elon and the Starlink team, they just recently revealed on an interview that Josh: they published a few days ago, the new version of these Starlink terminals, Josh: which are even smaller, even higher bandwidth, even more accessible in terms of price. Josh: And it's just this unbelievable service that it's going to be a no brainer not
Josh: to have. If you ever require Internet anywhere that doesn't need fiber optics, Josh: you should be a Starlink subscriber. And that's what we're seeing in the growth. Josh: So it's really it's an unbelievable company.
Josh: Starlink is one of those pillars that's just like it's it's crazy what they're Josh: doing and no one else can come close to this we Josh: we have blue origin which huge fan of i really hope they figure it out but their Josh: rocket just exploded on the launch pad last week and their whole program set Josh: back and they're the only ones that were close Josh: even if everything at blue origin worked as perfectly as they hoped for they're
Josh: still five years behind at minimum probably 10 this is a full decade lead they Josh: have so there's essentially a monopoly on space that spacex owns Josh: and as it becomes more on demand to send mass to orbit, there's only one company Josh: that can do it. And they can do it damn well.
Ejaaz: So this might be a crazy take, but Elon's superpower Ejaaz: actually it's not a crazy day this is obvious is scaling hardware from zero Ejaaz: to one better than anyone else on the entire world he's done it with electric Ejaaz: cars he's doing it with robots and now he's doing it with space rockets now Ejaaz: there's another advantage that he has which translates directly from that Ejaaz: Starlink right so you just mentioned that um you can repurpose starlink's production
Ejaaz: lines to make this new ai1 satellites in fact arguably it's easier see with Ejaaz: when you're creating these SOLID-X satellites, they have this phased Ejaaz: Array antenna, which basically is meant to speak to the dishes that are on Earth Ejaaz: to communicate and beam this internet back down to Earth. Ejaaz: That is a really tricky thing to produce, but a satellite itself is fairly easy. Ejaaz: Now, with the AI-1 satellite, it doesn't need this phased array antenna.
Ejaaz: In fact, you just need the laser projections to be able to communicate and talk Ejaaz: with each other. I mentioned it earlier, like transferring data, Ejaaz: training your model, inferencing the model, that is arguably easier to do. Ejaaz: And so Elon already is not starting from scratch here. Normally, he does zero to one. Ejaaz: He's kind of starting from 0.5 to one to be able to pull this off.
Ejaaz: Now, in terms of timelines, I think he's aiming for the end of 2027 to have Ejaaz: a full gigawatt worth of these AI-1 satellites out in space. Ejaaz: So this is a very real thing. The timelines are, in my opinion, Ejaaz: much shorter than we think. Ejaaz: And he already has some of the world's leading AI labs committed, Ejaaz: at least in theory on paper and contractually, to pay and purchase access to
Ejaaz: these things. Like you mentioned earlier, these AI-1 satellites are GPU interchangeable. Ejaaz: It's not just built for NVIDIA, although that's the primary kind of case right now. Ejaaz: You can fit TPUs, you can fit Amazon Tranium in the future. Ejaaz: He's meant to be the tall man, the transporter for all these GPUs to be put Ejaaz: out there to kind of absorb all of that sun's energy and train whatever model.
Ejaaz: He's kind of like agnostic when it comes to that. And I think That is one of Ejaaz: the biggest bull cases for SpaceX as I see it today. Josh: Yeah, think about how difficult it has been to build a data center. Josh: You need the, what is it, land power shell in order to get a data center set up. Josh: And it is so remarkably difficult to get the approvals, to get the public sentiment Josh: to turn positive, to figure out where to source the energy from.
Josh: It is this incredibly complicated process that's difficult and no one wants to deal with. Josh: And if you could just go over to Elon and say, yo, bro, I got a couple gigawatts Josh: that I need in orbit. Can you send them for me in the next few months?
¶ Hardware Scaling Advantage
Josh: That is such an easy outcome and one that i think everyone will want to to use Josh: because why wouldn't you and Josh: i want to circle back to the ipo and why i said earlier in the show that Josh: a spacex should be the most valuable company in the world we we barely even Josh: talked about xai and we barely even talked about the other entities that exist Josh: underneath it but the idea is that as as ai continues to expand and continues to take up
Josh: more of what we do on a day-to-day basis it's very much accelerating in that Josh: world of bits that we talk about Josh: a lot it's able to do ones and zeros very effectively and very efficiently Josh: the difficult thing now the bottleneck shifts to the physical world this world Josh: of atoms where you have to actually build things you have to create the physical manifestation of.
Josh: This ai to to allow it to be embodied or to give it enough energy and resources Josh: to train itself to become this agi the super intelligence and when it comes Josh: to manufacturing when it comes to real world engineering Josh: there is really no better team in the world than spacex in terms of hardware Josh: engineering and when i look at other engineering teams who are really good at Josh: creating physical objects in the real world manufacturing factories which are
Josh: actually the product and the factories produce these goods and services but Josh: building the factory is the hard part Josh: i also look at tesla and tesla has done a remarkable job at building and manufacturing Josh: these objects at scale and what is tesla now working on they cut down their model s and their x line. Josh: In exchange for Optimus, the humanoid robot, that humanoid robot is going to scale very quickly.
Josh: That humanoid robot paired with Grok and XAI as the orchestrator is going to Josh: build this like very autonomous capability of actually physically manufacturing Josh: things in the real world. Josh: SpaceX and Tesla are probably going to merge together. Josh: In the case that those two companies come together, there is no instance in Josh: which they do not become the most valuable company in the world so long as they deliver on the promise.
Josh: And I think the way you look at these companies, the way you validate these Josh: companies is you kind of like look at the roadmap and you say, Josh: are the products and services that they offer in the future going to be significantly Josh: better than they are today? Josh: And if the answer is yes, then the idea is that the company should be significantly Josh: more valuable to match the added value that they're going to increase.
Josh: I very strongly feel that way. We have Starship. We have Optimus, the humanoid robots. Josh: If just those two things work and nothing else works, the amount of value that Josh: will be unlocked is unimaginable. It's really hard to fathom how large these Josh: companies can get. And we have this perceived limit of what a market cap of a company can be.
Josh: NVIDIA is close to $6 trillion or something. But to imagine a company reaching Josh: $10, $20 trillion, $30 trillion doesn't seem unreasonable when you think about Josh: the scope and scale of a company like Tesla, of a company like SpaceX merged Josh: together under the rule of Elon Musk. Josh: It's just this unbelievable opportunity that finally the public has access to. Josh: And that's why I am particularly excited to invest in the SpaceX IPO.
¶ Valuing SpaceX’s Future
Ejaaz: I think for the longest time, the SpaceX IPO has been based on a lot of visionary Ejaaz: ideas, kind of belief and this undying faith in Elon. Ejaaz: But I do want to touch more on like what the potential numbers might look like Ejaaz: to make that multi-trillion dollar valuation that you're talking about, Ejaaz: Josh, an actual reality. Ejaaz: So there's two kind of perspectives I want to share here.
Ejaaz: So number one, Hamid over here Ejaaz: shared his breakdown of what each of these satellites basically equate to. Ejaaz: So if you launch one of these AI-1 satellites out into space right now, Ejaaz: today, it's the equivalent of basically half a rack of GPUs that you currently Ejaaz: find in a data center here on Earth. So it's around 120 to 150 kilowatts, it's around half a rack. Ejaaz: Now, today's data centers, let's say it's worth like one gigawatts worth of compute.
Ejaaz: That's the equivalent of 4,000 racks at around 250 kilowatts. Ejaaz: So you would need to launch 8,000 of these AI-1 satellites into space to be Ejaaz: able to equate to one data center, one gigawatts worth of compute. Ejaaz: And Elon is targeting that by the end of 2027, which is a lot sooner than most... Ejaaz: People would have expected. Now, there's a lot of costs that go in this.
Ejaaz: The average launch costs, actually, you know, if you're being kind of like medium Ejaaz: to kind of like conservative is around $10 billion just for like the launch Ejaaz: costs and not the materials at all. Ejaaz: Now, Elon's whole idea is that he's going to bring these launch costs down pretty Ejaaz: dramatically over the next three years. Ejaaz: And at three years in, he's saying that it'll be more cost effective than building Ejaaz: a data center here on Earth.
Ejaaz: And so if we do napkin math with that in mind, right, three years from now, Ejaaz: or maybe less than three years from now, a Vera Rubin rack right now, Ejaaz: which is like NVIDIA's latest GPUs that they're rolling out, Ejaaz: is worth around $8 million. Ejaaz: Now, if you couple that with the launch costs at around 200k launch cost per Ejaaz: rocket, which is what Elon's aiming for, we are going to hit at around $10 million Ejaaz: to put a single Vera Rubin rack out in space.
Ejaaz: So $12 million on the ground, $10 million in space. Ejaaz: You can see a world where the cost economics end up becoming favorable, Ejaaz: especially if you're not just using Vero Rubin racks, you might be using cheaper Ejaaz: Google TPU racks or Amazon Tranium.
Ejaaz: So the idea is this is a big bet. Now, if you're purchasing this IPO, Ejaaz: you aren't just in it for the near term, you're in it for this next three to Ejaaz: honestly 10 year window, where Ejaaz: AI data centers in space become a much real thing, much more real thing. Josh: Yeah, and this is a roundup. So we're going to wrap this up in a second, Josh: get some more news. But the final point that I want to make is you mentioned Josh: the cost of reusability for Starship.
Josh: If you look at the Falcon 9 rocket, there's two stages, and only one of them Josh: is actually reusable, so there still is a higher cost. Josh: With Starship, 100% of the rocket is reusable, and the actual cost to launch Josh: it in the case that 100% is reusable is just the cost of fuel. Josh: And the cost of fuel on a Starship rocket is actually cheaper than the cost Josh: of fuel on something like a Boeing 747. Because...
Josh: 78% of it, I think, like almost 80% is just liquid oxygen. Liquid oxygen is Josh: like very abundant. We breathe it all the time. Josh: It is just a liquefied form of oxygen with the remaining 22% being just liquid methane. Josh: And methane is like, it's the stuff you like cook on your grill with. Josh: So this isn't very expensive. It's not crazy to think that they will need a
Josh: lot of money to launch these things. And the idea is that that will bring the Josh: cost per kilogram down to sub $100. Josh: And that means if you are, it does, if you want to go to space, Josh: depending on how many kilograms you are, you just divide that by 100 and you're on your way.
Ejaaz: It's a cheap ticket weight so i'm meant to lose some weight now Josh: So yeah go on a diet so you can get a cheaper ticket to space but that's i think Josh: that's kind of like the bulkiest why i'm excited i have to ask you as we wrap Josh: up this section before we get into the next one Josh: which is going to be open ai building this like gigantic data center is are Josh: you going to be participating in the spacex ipo are you excited about it are
Josh: you going to buy some what are your general thoughts. Ejaaz: So if robin hood and my broker allows me to which i've signaled interest. Ejaaz: Absolutely, I will be as this goes live today. Ejaaz: My thoughts in general are I wouldn't bet against Elon when it comes to hardware Ejaaz: scaling. He's less proven on the software side of things. Ejaaz: This is just me trying to be balanced here, but he has proven himself time and Ejaaz: again on hardware scaling.
Ejaaz: And SpaceX is solving a hardware issue, one of the biggest hardware issues or Ejaaz: challenges ever with AI data centers in space. Ejaaz: As everyone knows, I'm a big AI fan. So if he's able to pull this off. Ejaaz: More compute equals better models, better inference. Ejaaz: He'll be able to serve agnostically any AI company. It's an obvious buy for me.
Josh: Yeah, I think I'm pretty aligned. Me too. I have been so I got lucky in the Josh: case that I had some private shares from about five years ago. Josh: So I have been a SpaceX holder. I continue. I plan to continue that going forward. Josh: I also requested some at IPO. Josh: I'm also just planning to continue to buy like, dude, I can get a 10 plus trillion Josh: dollar company for 2 trillion bucks.
Josh: Sign me up. I think the people who are a little more time sensitive, Josh: who are looking to get a return sooner, that might be a bit iffy. Josh: I mean, $2.1 trillion is high. There's still a lot of variables that need to be worked out. Josh: There's a chance that this thing goes public, shoots up, and then falls for a little while.
Josh: I don't know. We're not traders. But I think as long-term investors, Josh: as someone with a low time preference, SpaceX at $2 trillion, two thumbs up for me. Josh: Let's keep the train going. Anyways, we probably should move on.
¶ OpenAI’s Gigawatt Gamble
Josh: This is a roundup. This is Friday. We got to fill the people in on what's going on. Josh: EJ, there's some news from OpenAI about a new gigawatt data center. Josh: We're back on Earth, by the way. We're talking about data centers on Earth. Josh: What's the deal with this new OpenAI news? Ejaaz: Yeah, so we're out of the world of single-digit gigawatts now, Ejaaz: Josh. We're in double digits. Josh: Run it up expeditiously.
Ejaaz: OpenAI has basically signed a major deal for a 10-gigawatt data center. Ejaaz: For context here, the largest gigawatt data center, which is what Elon's building Ejaaz: with Colossus 3, is aiming to be around 1.5 to 2 gigawatts worth of data centers. Ejaaz: For a single site to own 10 gigawatts of compute, you need roughly around $500 billion. Ejaaz: Now, obviously, OpenAI, they haven't IPO'd yet. They might be pretty soon.
Ejaaz: They don't have that kind of money. So they're being backstopped by their best Ejaaz: friend, SoftBank, and of course, NVIDIA. Ejaaz: Jensen Huang is stepping up to backstop this entire data center campus in Ohio. Ejaaz: It's going to be an absolute gargantuan beast of a site. Ejaaz: And it kind of follows in the trend of Ejaaz: Sam Altman and OpenAI specifically, who have been incredibly aggressive about Ejaaz: acquiring as much compute as they can to serve their models.
Ejaaz: Now, if you compare them to Anthropic, you might notice sometimes when you're Ejaaz: using clawed models, the performance gets a little degraded, Ejaaz: or you might get limited, or you might hit your limits really quickly. Ejaaz: That's because Anthropic has fairly been conservative with compute, Ejaaz: and that's given them advantages in other areas.
Ejaaz: OpenAI has been the opposite, and that's why it's always kind of like relatively Ejaaz: free and flexible to use as much of your rate limit at OpenAI as you can, Ejaaz: which has led to arguably a better developer experience, a better coding experience, Ejaaz: a better LLM experience in general. Ejaaz: And Sam is doubling down on that bet. He believes in the future, Ejaaz: the demand for AI is going to outstrip the amount of available compute supply Ejaaz: that he has currently on Earth.
Ejaaz: He is kind of not on good terms of the alarm, you could say. Ejaaz: They recently just got out of a court case. Ejaaz: So he's probably not going to be using data centers in space anytime soon. Ejaaz: So he's trying to secure as much ground space as he can on this new site. Ejaaz: Now, what worries me a little about this is just the pure amount of money that Ejaaz: you need. Now, obviously, this is going to be done in phases.
Ejaaz: 10 gigawatts of computers is going to take absolute years to spin up. Ejaaz: But it's an important bit of news that I think kind of lays into this next headline. Ejaaz: Josh, I don't know if you saw this, but OpenAI has confidentially filed for Ejaaz: an S1. They are going to be IPO-ing relatively soon. Josh: OpenAI is copying SpaceX with data centers. They're copying SpaceX with IPOs. Josh: It doesn't work with Elon. All right, I'm getting the trend.
Josh: Yeah, but it seems like this is actually official now. Josh: I hope they can build that data center. That would be amazing. Josh: But we do have a official filing of a confidential S1. Josh: And there was also a leaked all hands news report that I read that said Sam Josh: is kind of using this as an option. Josh: There is the option to go public soon. But depending on how their model progress Josh: goes over the next few months, they will then make that determination.
Josh: His perspective is that the world will meaningfully change in the sense that Josh: they do get kind of like this runaway AGI self-fulfilling loop type thing. Josh: And he wants to be a private company in the case that that does happen sooner Josh: rather than later. This is some pretty...
Josh: Big grand visions that they're dealing with so we'll see but now they do have Josh: the option they have confidentially filed someone out there is reading through Josh: this and probably having a field day understand the internals of how this company Josh: actually works so that's pretty exciting news.
Ejaaz: Yeah and there was another bit of news that uh open ai reportedly is looking Ejaaz: to slash the cost or prices to their subscriptions which is kind of a change Ejaaz: in the directional trend that we've seen from anthropic um Ejaaz: google actually this week cut their prices as well i think we're starting to see, Ejaaz: we're starting to reach a point where all these AI models, as good as they are, Ejaaz: are starting to become more commoditized.
Ejaaz: They kind of all do the same things. The leap between the prior version and Ejaaz: the current version isn't as large as it used to be, like, say, a year back. Ejaaz: And OpenAI is taking the first step to being competitive towards Anthropic and Ejaaz: Google. So Google slashed their access to their AI studio to about $20 a month Ejaaz: for their cheapest thing. I think OpenAI is planning to do the same.
Ejaaz: And I'm guessing, like, Anthropic and OpenAI are going to get into some kind of a bidding war. Ejaaz: OpenAI kind of like taking its time to go public, as Sam suggested in that leaked Ejaaz: memo, is very interesting to me because you see Anthropik and SpaceX kind of Ejaaz: like racing to raise as much capital as they can. Ejaaz: And if Sam wants to pay for a $500 billion data center, he kind of like,
Ejaaz: I'm confused where he's going to get the money from. Maybe he's just going to Ejaaz: keep borrowing privately. Ejaaz: But it's just a unique case where OpenAI is kind of breaking away from the pact. Ejaaz: And I'm wondering if these financial decisions actually end up paying off.
¶ Fable 5 and Safety
Josh: Yeah, we'll see. We got to cover Fable next because it just released this week. Josh: You've been using it for a few days. I've been using it for a little while. Josh: It's a pretty amazing model. I've been using it for a lot of fun extracurricular Josh: stuff I found. Like I created the Minecraft clone to play around with it. Josh: I've been building kind of games in 3D spaces and I found it to be really fun.
Josh: It genuinely feels like this novel model architecture that I've been enjoying Josh: playing with. Ejaz, over the first few days that you've been using this, Josh: what are your initial thoughts, opinions, kind of like after the dust settles, how do you feel about, Josh: the new model fable 5.
Ejaaz: Um i think it is less sycophantic than opus 4.8 i'm not gonna lie i Ejaaz: when 4.8 came out i use it primarily as my main model but like it was way more agreeable than 4.7 Ejaaz: we're now back with fable 5 and that might sound like it's got nothing to do Ejaaz: with intelligence to me it is it factors in the personality of the model and Ejaaz: i'm able to like work with it longer over certain tasks it just understands what i want to do
Ejaaz: the second thing i've noticed is i've been working on a couple of personal projects Ejaaz: that involve a lot of code and research. Ejaaz: I can just one-prompt Fable 5, and it is able to just work continuously for up to an hour. Ejaaz: Now, I know software engineers listening to this are like, I let my thing run Ejaaz: for five to six hours or maybe even overnight.
Ejaaz: But for me, for the average person, it is becoming incrementally more valuable Ejaaz: for a model that understands what you want, that doesn't come to you for every Ejaaz: kind of challenge it hits, and just kind of figures it out for himself.
Ejaaz: And I think this kind of trend of models doing longer horizon tasks way better than the average human Ejaaz: is a subtle trend that is going to be increasingly valuable for corporate workers Ejaaz: at enterprises, as well as personal people that are like starting their own Ejaaz: businesses or want to spin up multiple of these agents instead of hiring an employee.
Ejaaz: I just think it's a wonderfully intelligent model. And I'm excited to see further Ejaaz: iterations of this mythos grade kind of type of model be released. Ejaaz: But there was some pushback, right, Josh, like there were some policies that Ejaaz: came out that were basically like, hey, like, You get access to this public Ejaaz: version of Mythos 5, but it's going to be heavily safeguarded.
Ejaaz: Now, one of the biggest criticisms that they faced was if you ask it questions Ejaaz: like, hey, I'm trying to train my agent to become more efficient and use less Ejaaz: tokens, it'll take that as some kind of an inclination that you're trying to Ejaaz: learn how Claude Fable 5 is built. Ejaaz: And Anthropic installs these anti-distillation maneuvers, basically rediverting Ejaaz: you back to the old model, Opus 4.8.
Ejaaz: But in this case, it would give you degraded quality intentionally because it Ejaaz: thinks you're trying to like steal its blueprints. Ejaaz: Anthropik has now walked that back because previously they weren't going to Ejaaz: tell you when they were going to do it.
Ejaaz: And now they are telling you. They reversed that decision as of yesterday, Ejaaz: basically saying, hey, we'll be up front with you when we're going to intentionally Ejaaz: degrade the quality of your answer because we think you're trying to like copy Ejaaz: our model weights, which is a very political maneuver. Ejaaz: And it's nice to see that they backtracked on that.
¶ Siri’s Big Comeback
Josh: There you have it. So there's the update on Fable and the final topic of the week. Josh: We filmed an entire episode about Fable and also this final topic, WWDC. Josh: So if you have not watched either of those, I highly recommend going to check Josh: them out. Pretty amazing episodes. We had a really strong week of fun topics Josh: to talk about this week, but I do want to trace over WWDC, particularly around Josh: Siri AI, which seems to actually be as good as they said it would be.
Josh: And we have to cover this because that comes as a surprise. This is not the Apple of the past.
Josh: This is the Apple that promises things and doesn't always deliver so the people Josh: have had to download the beta actually fact check try it for themselves and Josh: the initial reviews have been spectacular Josh: it seems like it actually works better than what they demoed in real time on Josh: stage it actually works faster it understands context it works very well on Josh: people's phones and this is available through the developer program that apple
Josh: offers through their ios developer membership Josh: it seems like we're actually going to have a pretty powerful siri experience Josh: we're going to have on-device ai that is actually. Josh: Contextually aware of everything that lives on your phone and off of it. Josh: And they actually addressed something that I found really interesting.
Josh: Maybe you saw, maybe you didn't about their removal of Siri from Europe and Josh: from China in the sense that they will not budge on the privacy thing. Josh: They will offload some of the compute to cloud in the sense that, Josh: or in the case that it can't run locally on your device, it's a little too challenging for that. Josh: And when they do, it's done so entirely privately. Josh: Europe doesn't want this to happen. So therefore Apple's like,
Josh: no, no, no, we're not giving you the backdoor. We don't even have the backdoor. Josh: We are just not going to push it there. And I really admire the like standing Josh: strong on the stance of being private of running everything on device. Josh: It seems like Apple has a grand slam and it comes maybe a couple of years later Josh: than everyone would like. Josh: But this is something I am stoked to get. And I think the downstream implications Josh: of this are probably pretty big.
Josh: There's a lot of casual users of something like ChatGPT who pay $20 a month Josh: to have an LLM that they basically use as Google Plus Plus, this now substitutes Josh: and subsidizes a lot of that all for free, Josh: running local inference on device. So very excited, very bullish about Apple in general. Ejaaz: You know, it was funny. I was reading the release article for Siri AI, Ejaaz: and typically at the footnote, you'll see, you know, these regions are excluded.
Ejaaz: It'll just be a minor bullet point in tiny, you know, writing. Ejaaz: For Europe, they had an entire A4 page basically saying this is Europe's fault. Ejaaz: Europe government is the reason that we can't release our product, Ejaaz: and we are not budging because we just think, frankly, that this is ridiculous. Ejaaz: It was a larger piece than the China bit, which just came in as like a paragraph. Ejaaz: Obviously, China is like going to want access.
Josh: I think everyone expects the China one. Ejaaz: Exactly. But for Europe, they've been sort of anti-AI and anti-privacy for quite a while now. Ejaaz: And it has resulted in slowed down releases of the latest AI products and features Ejaaz: in that region, which is just kind of like sad to see, especially like, Ejaaz: you know, that's where I'm from.
Ejaaz: And it's annoying that like, I can't talk to my friends about the latest features Ejaaz: because they have to wait like months to a year to get access to the exact same thing. Ejaaz: That being said, a lot of the haters for Apple, which included me, Ejaaz: which was me a year ago, was like, I don't think Apple's gonna be able to catch up. Ejaaz: We have been proven absolutely wrong. And I wanna make that very clear on camera right now.
Ejaaz: Apple has a distinct advantage, which is they own the entire consumer hardware Ejaaz: ecosystem, 3.5 billion devices. Ejaaz: And now they have the hardware, the chips, to run some of the best frontier Ejaaz: models on your phone. They may not be as large as Anthropics. Ejaaz: They may not be as large as OpenAIs.
Ejaaz: But they're trained on your data. And you can do something that none of these Ejaaz: other AI labs can do, which is ask Siri to basically find that text that your Ejaaz: mom told you to do the thing and you forgot what it was, or, Ejaaz: you know, bring back that memory of like when you were hanging out with your Ejaaz: best friend, doing blah, blah, blah. Ejaaz: It has full context, grounded context on your entire thing.
Ejaaz: And that is a feature we haven't seen and one that I'm personally super excited to use. So...
¶ Closing Thoughts and Reactions
Ejaaz: That is all the news for today, folks. Josh, any final thoughts? Josh: You're caught up. No, that's everything. The vibes have been crazy high this Josh: week. The news has been insane. Josh: Lots of things that I think we're probably personally excited about have been released. We got WWDC. Josh: We got a new Frontier AI model. And we got the biggest IPO in history all in one week. Ejaaz: It's crazy. Josh: It's like there are weeks where- We also got.
Ejaaz: The Knicks dub yesterday. Please, let's not forget. Josh: For the New Yorkers. Ejaz and I are both in New York, both big Knicks fans.
Josh: Huge. hopefully the day after you're watching this they win the championship Josh: that'd be pretty amazing given the vibes this week i suspect that's that's likely Josh: that feels probable just on a vibes based opinion Josh: um but yeah very excited about all the things that are happening very excited Josh: that you have made it here to the end of the episode and are still listening Josh: so thank you so much for all the support as always
Josh: if you enjoy this as always also don't forget to share it with a friend anyone Josh: who you think might be interested anyone who asks you should i buy the spacex Josh: ipo maybe send in this video and say, Josh: not only should you buy it, you should set, I'm not, I can't go that far. Josh: Don't make your own. This is not financial advice. Ejaaz: Actually, if you disagree with us, if you disagree with us, we actually want
Ejaaz: to hear from you. Like we have been combing through the numbers. Ejaaz: We've been combing through the projections and we're like, this kind of makes a lot of sense to us. Ejaaz: But if you're adamant that we're wrong, let us know in the comments. Ejaaz: We're hearing, we're going to hear you. We're going to see you. Ejaaz: We're going to respond to you. So we want to hear from you, whether you hate
Ejaaz: our opinion or you love it. Like tell us where we're wrong. Tell us where we're right. Josh: Yeah, and I'm also going to disagree with you. So I'm ready to go to war in Josh: the comment section. Bring it on, baby. Josh: Tell me why SpaceX isn't the most valuable company in the world. Josh: Come on. But yeah, that's it. Thank you guys always so much for watching. Josh: Have an amazing weekend. Josh: Enjoy the weekend. Hopefully, by the time you're watching this,
Josh: SpaceX is going up only. That'd be great. Josh: If not, I'm sure we'll hear about it. Ejaaz: Long term. The thesis is long term, Josh. Josh: Yes, we're long term. This is a low time preference show, man. Josh: I'm here for a long time, not a good time. Or a good time and a long time, Josh: I guess. But it doesn't matter the timelines that it happens on. Josh: But yes, thank you all so much for watching.
Josh: Have an amazing weekend and we'll see you next week for another set of episodes on Limitless. Ejaaz: See you. See you guys.