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This is how the correction/crash begins: —AI dumping from China —US AI firms growth slows —Markets reprice sector which reprices,,,everything.

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' A 'business model' based on a product that generates "plausible looking" code, code that _might work_, if someone knew how to fix it, and financed by selling dollars for a nickel apiece doesn't work? Who knew?

You missed the part where inflation ramps up due to IT sector shortages/cost increases caused by the AI bros buying every chip on the planet (before they implode). So a nice double whammy.

It really depends on what happens with the Strait. Chip makers are okay for now, but if you combine a closed Strait with what you mention above. Oi Vey!

The chip makers are doing great (see Micron’s stock, as an example), but core servers, storage, and networking costs have gone up literally 3x in price over the past 6 months. That is absolutely hammering IT budgets (combined with Broadcom’s VMware graft, it’s really bad).

I don’t know that this chart supports what you say it supports. China doesn’t seem to be dumping. US model consumption seems pretty stable and not necessarily growing very much for a while now. So why is a crash coming?

Started using mostly Chinese open source models as well since the start of this month but all of them hosted on European providers because of EU GDPR privacy rules. New Claude is amazing but only rarely needed.

I think it won’t be because of Chinese models. If anything they’ll delay it. The story will be ROI. If all gen AI does is add 10% on your labor costs with no net benefits. (10% based on Uber’s $1,500 per use per month caps.)

Either that or by switching to smaller models, the built out infrastructure becomes sufficient for actual demand based on higher usage pricing. And all those data center projects become redundant. Which will devastate the book value of loans held be PE firms financing data centers.