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Notes from the AI capital cycle

Institutional-grade equity research on AI infrastructure, power, and the capital cycle. Synthesized from the same data pipeline that feeds the MCP endpoint.

META August 6, 2026

Meta's Scorched Earth Moment: Power, Not Models, Is the Moat

Chamath says Meta should have gone scorched earth two years ago but power constraints make the timing better now. The Q2 earnings call and a $50 billion Louisiana bet show why he is half right.

Hadrian August 6, 2026

The Software-Defined Factory: Why Altimeter Bet $1.37B on Hadrian and What It Means for Industrial AI

Hadrian's $7.87B Series D is a bet that AI can rebuild American manufacturing. Public comps like Rockwell and Emerson show the opportunity and the valuation trap.

META August 6, 2026

Meta's Llama Is Gone. Muse Spark Is the New Bet

From open-source champion to closed API: why Meta killed its scorched-earth strategy and what $130 billion in capex needs to prove

NVDA August 6, 2026

NVDA's Bullish Burst Meets Chanos' Lease Question: Why Nvidia Sells Chips Instead of Renting Them

18 handles, 22 mentions, forward P/E 17x — and Jim Chanos asks why NVDA doesn't lease GPUs for 3-5 years and capture 200-400% margin instead of 75% on a sale

NVDA August 5, 2026

Jensen Huang: Closed Models Are Cheaper, Open Models Are About Control

DeepSeek's $1.5B Flash ARR does not add up. The only disclosed number is $205M theoretical max. NVDA's mix still favors closed-model inference spend.

NVDA August 5, 2026

NVDA Rubin Economics: Why $8.3M per Rack Still Prints 78% Margin at $53/GB HBM

Wells Fargo says $8.34M, Bernstein says $9.1M, Morgan Stanley says 78% token margin — mapping who wins and loses

Memory August 5, 2026

Memory's Fastest Unwind of 2026: 27% to 46% in 10 Days, Then an 18% Snapback

Podcasts called it a leverage event, not a demand break. The data agrees.

SpaceX August 4, 2026

SpaceX Q2: How $7.8B Becomes $100B ARR by December

First public earnings beat, Starlink hits 12M subs, AI capex hits $15.8B, and the math behind the $100B run-rate claim

SKHY August 4, 2026

SK Hynix CMM-Ax with Marvell: 5.5x Throughput Claim Sparks 12% MRVL Rally

CXL PNM moves compute to memory to solve the long-context KV-cache bottleneck. Flow flipped to accumulation today, options chase upside, but adoption hinges on server and software support.

DeepSeek August 4, 2026

Chinese AI Startups Are Beating Baidu, Not OpenAI. The $1.5B Flash ARR Is a Misread

DeepSeek V4 Flash at $0.14 per million tokens makes $8.69 per GPU hour at sparse attention speed, but loses money at normal reasoning speed. Verified revenue is $500M annualized, not $1.5B. Chinese private labs combined do $2.6B versus OpenAI alone at $25B.

NVDA August 3, 2026

60% of Enterprises Use Open-Weights. That Does Not Mean Closed Models Are Losing.

Morgan Stanley's Aug 3 note sparked the open vs closed debate again. Enterprise production data says closed still wins spend, open wins volume. Meta's Llama stumble changes the open-weight map.

BABA August 3, 2026

Alibaba's Qwen 3.8-Max: 2.4T Parameters, Domestic Chips, and a Muted US Reaction

The largest open-weight model yet claims second only to Anthropic's Fable 5. BABA popped 4.5% but US AI stocks rallied too — the market sees cost pressure, not a Sputnik moment.

AI August 3, 2026

Chamath's Singularity Loop Is Half Right

Capability is accelerating on longer-horizon tasks, but options flow and compute markets show no recursive AGI loop yet

OpenAI August 1, 2026

OpenAI's Astra Just Crashed 10 Open Math Problems. Here's What Actually Matters.

The problems are real, the proofs are Lean-verified, and the $2,000 price tag is not what it looks like. But this lands at a moment when OpenAI needed a win.

Infosys July 31, 2026

Infosys Is the New Weight Watchers

The Indian IT industry built a $300 billion empire on human labor arbitrage. AI coding agents are the GLP-1 of that model. The difference: Infosys still has time to pivot.

DeepSeek July 31, 2026

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Lands. OpenAI Had Already Cut Prices.

A pure post-training overhaul pushed DeepSeek's cheapest model within one point of GPT-5.6 Luna. But OpenAI cut Luna's price 80% the day before — the inference price war is on.

AMZN July 31, 2026

Amazon Proved AI Capex Pays. Meta Is Still Asking for Patience.

Two hyperscaler prints, 24 hours apart, drew opposite verdicts from the market. The difference isn't about who spends more. It's about who can point to the revenue.

MU July 30, 2026

Memory Is Not a Commodity: Why MU and SK Hynix Are Priced for a Recession That Isn't Coming

The market just priced in a memory-cycle peak. The physical data says the opposite: HBM is sold out through 2027, conventional DRAM is in outright shortage, and the two leading memory stocks trade at 4x to 5x forward earnings while growing revenue 200% to 300% year over year.

ADBE July 30, 2026

Adobe Is the #1 Value Stock in AI. That's Either a Steal or a Warning.

At 9x forward earnings and a 9.8% FCF yield, Adobe is the cheapest large-cap software stock in the market. The AI disruption thesis is unproven — but the street is split down the middle.

AI Capex July 29, 2026

AI data center debt, the $7 trillion question

The buildout is now 75 percent borrowed money. That means the bond market, not the stock market, decides what happens next.

AI July 29, 2026

Compute Is Becoming a Standalone Asset Class. Blackstone Just Bet $185 Billion on It.

The world's largest private capital firm is treating GPU clusters like office buildings. The data says they're right.

AI July 29, 2026

Power Is the New GPUs

40% of announced datacenter projects are dying. Bloom Energy just printed its first billion-dollar quarter. TSMC raised capex because tool prices are inflating. And the semicap selloff is fighting its biggest customer.

PATH July 29, 2026

UiPath's Turnaround Is Real. The Market Hasn't Noticed.

First GAAP profit. $1.2 billion in net cash. AI in 16 of 20 top deals. And a stock price that still trades like a melting ice cube.

AMZN July 29, 2026

Amazon Reports Tomorrow: The $200 Billion Confirmation

AWS is growing at 28%, the AI buildout is accelerating, and the 2027 capex signal could be the real shocker. The Bargo 2.5x model explains why.

META July 29, 2026

META Reports Tonight: The $145 Billion Question

The Bargo 2.5x tokenomics model says capex must rise. The model says the spending is clearing. Here's what the numbers say before the print.