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Newsletter: This is the Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble: genAI is nothing like Uber or Amazon Web Services, there are no profitable genAI companies, agents do not and cannot exist, there is no AI SaaS story, and everything rides - and dies - on selling GPUs. www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...

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Some argue that Amazon - and Amazon Web Services - were initially money-losers, and I have written a comprehensive explanation as to why it's totally different. AWS was quickly break-even, costing about 10% of Amazon's 2024 Capital Expenditures to build. www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-gui/

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Also, the most important part of AWS was that Amazon quickly moved ALL of it's internal infrastructure onto AWS once it was up and running. They were their own customer so that even IF (and obviously a big if), they were not able to sell their excess capacity, they would still have a customer.

Now, Amazon doesn't have a money making system to just throw into their GPU datacenters, before GenAI their use cases for GPU compute were very limited. It's going to be a bloodbath for engineers going forward until we get the 'next big thing' as this pops.