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The valuations and money flowing around are not necessarily relevant to today, but say something about future expectations. I think that LLMs and other tools will bring trillions in added value eventually.

EDIT: Typo

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Sure, but the question is would OpenAI be around to see the investment bear fruit after such a spend? In the 90's infrastructure companies (you know, the 'rock solid' infra companies who were going to be around forever) spent billions to lay a lot of dark fiber that was to be the future of the Internet, went bankrupt during the dotcom bust and then Google and other Internet companies gobbled up said fiber at fire sale prices. Of course it was the future of the Internet... just not for them.

On second thought... go for it, Sam! I'm looking for some powerful AI hardware at great prices...

yeah timing is everything for an emerging company

the thing is you can't know if it's the right time, it's indeterminate. all you can do is go for it. usually the world will benefit, whether you win or lose

Nvidia itself had a sky-high valuation for many years and still do. People were always expecting exponential growth to kick in and make it all add up. Looking at their profit charts, it's currently happening [1]

[1] https://valustox.com/NVDA

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