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19 Feb 2025

The AI Arms Race: Increase in CapEx Spending over the last 6 Quarters...

-Amazon $AMZN: +143% -Meta $META: +135% -Google $GOOGL: +107% -Microsoft $MSFT: +77% Source: Charlie Bilello

19 Feb 2025

BREAKING: Prediction markets are now showing a 74% chance of Grok being the best AI in the world this month

Since the release of Grok-3, the odds of Grok being the best AI this month have soared +50 percentage points. In Grok's benchmarks, Grok-3 outperforms both ChatGPT and DeepSeek in multiple categories. The AI race continues to heat up. Source: The Kobeissi Letter, @Kalshi

19 Feb 2025

GROK 3 IS AMERICA’S ANSWER TO DEEPSEEK—AND IT’S DOMINATING

xAI deserves credit for building world-class reasoning models at record speed—proving that America still leads in AI. With Grok 3 outperforming competitors, it’s clear xAI is setting the new standard for intelligence and innovation. Perplexity AI CEO: “Once the API is live, integration is coming.” America builds fast. Elon is proving it.

18 Feb 2025

Xi wants some of that AI bubble cash.

Here he is shaking hands with Jack Ma after sending him in exile 4 years ago. Source: zerohedge

13 Feb 2025

"AI" +"Adoption" mentions of the US companies with over $1 billion in market capitalization spiked to ~100, an all-time high.

During Q4 2024 earnings, a record 50% of S&P 500 firms mentioned “AI”. Source: Global Markets Investor

11 Feb 2025

GS: "DeepSeek Monday" more about a rotation in the AI trade, rather than outright negative

(i) border security (Canada, Colombia, Mexico); (ii) geopolitics (steel & aluminum); (iii) fairness (reciprocal tariffs & currency manipulation). China is the only country to be tariffed - and will get tariffed more - as it hits all of these...

11 Feb 2025

‼️ 🚨 BREAKING: Elon Musk-led group makes $97.4B bid for control of OpenAI. 👀

A consortium of investors led by billionaire Elon Musk is offering $97.4 billion to buy the nonprofit that controls artificial intelligence startup OpenAI, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. Musk's attorney, Marc Toberoff, said he submitted the bid to OpenAI’s board on Monday, according to the report. "It's time for OpenAI to return to the open-source, safety-focused force for good it once was," the WSJ cited Musk as saying in a statement provided by Toberoff. "We will make sure that happens." SOURCE: REUTERS, WSJ

10 Feb 2025

Jevons' Paradox in action: The initial response to the "DeepFreak" suggests companies are spending more, not less.

Cloud Capex is projected to grow 40% in 2025, according to @MeliusResearch Source: Holger Zschaepitz @Schuldensuehner

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