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Intelligence forms the largest addressable market in history, according to Brad Gerstner. Leading AI companies will scale compute rapidly, taking OpenAI and Anthropic from 3 gigawatts to 20 gigawatts by next year.
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Unrelenting demand consumes all available computing capacity around the globe right now.
OpenAI and Anthropic started the year sharing 3 gigawatts of computing power. Brad Gerstner said these companies will reach 10 gigawatts by the end of the year and 20 gigawatts the following year.
“OpenAI and Anthropic combined to start the year had three gigawatts of compute. Three combined. They're going to end the year closer to 10 and end next year closer to 20.”
Premium model prices matter little against human labor rates
Spending $15 on an expensive AI model remains a bargain when replacing a consultant charging $200 per hour. Brad Gerstner called the price gap between premium and cheap models irrelevant at this scale.
“The difference between spending three bucks on a cheap model or 15 bucks on an expensive model to replace a $200 an hour consultant, it's just irrelevance.”
Enterprise AI token costs are exploding, "doubling every 45 days" for some, yet productivity gains remain stubbornly low, potentially "0-2%."
The global intelligence market is massive, and for critical tasks, the quality difference of a superior model makes its higher cost (e.g., $15 vs. $3) insignificant compared to human alternatives.
AI adoption is spreading at a radically faster rate and wider scale than the early internet, but it faces a critical, fundamental difference: it's supply-constrained, not demand-constrained.
Major tech players like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic are "token constrained," meaning their ability to generate more revenue and deliver more intelligence is directly limited by the physical availability of computing power.
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