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"Elon has massive leverage in AI right now" - Chamath

May 04, 2026 / 01:21

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To the extent that open AI missed, I
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think what that is is an insight to not
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enough compute capacity today. And that
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problem is only getting worse. Okay, if
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you look at the actual amount of
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gigawatts that are under construction,
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we have a huge mismatch now. People have
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announced all these projects, but less
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than half of it is actually being built.
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Less than half. Most of it is stuck in
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red tape. There's no credible strategy
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to turn any of this stuff on.
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Who will this hurt? It will hurt
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Anthropic and OpenAI the most. Who will
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this benefit? It will benefit the
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hyperscalers, specifically Oracle,
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Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Google. And
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now what you're going to see is a
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negotiation and a trade back and forth.
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How much equity do I have to give up?
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How much control do I have to give up to
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get access to the compute versus how
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badly will I miss my growth forecasts if
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I don't? That's a huge lane for Grock to
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just run through and SpaceX to run
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through because they have a ton of
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excess capacity. And so I think the
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cursor deal was the appetizer. If I were
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Elon now, I'd be running all over this
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market because if the models catch up in
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quality, I think he could also do
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something really crazy with anthropic.
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He and Dario should do a deal

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