20VC: Why 'Pacing the Frontier' Is BS; Instinct $10BN, Miro $1.35BN
Instinct’s $1B raise at a $10B valuation pairs minute-long latency with compute costs: 10M users paying $10 monthly imply a $1.2B annual burden.Jason’s reversal—from recommending the round to refusing it—alongside Miro’s $1.3B sale from $17.5B and Canva’s slowdown from 30% to 20%, highlights SaaS’s shift from revenue multiples to EBITDA.
Brad Gerstner: No AI Bubble, Semis Eat the Nasdaq & AI's Take Off Problem
Gerstner argues the rally is earnings-driven, even as semiconductor concentration accounts for 70% of Nasdaq’s return.The AI buildout still depends on lab revenue scaling, while rates, power constraints, regulation and a delayed Anthropic IPO remain key risks.
AI 產業挖掘機:美股有望再創新高,日韓縮量難跟上
标普500成分股EPS约30%的增长支撑美股创新高,但日韩港股仍受成交量塌缩和资金通道关闭拖累。前沿模型凭借最佳模型与产品维持议价权,OpenAI关闭200美元套餐;推理margin约80%,开源部署强化云的经济性。FOMC落地后的反弹窗口或在九月下旬至十月,但Anthropic十月底IPO、通胀、欧债与AI capex争夺资金仍需监测。
Ep. 031 - EMERGENCY EPISODE: Are We Doomed? | Jordan Nanos, Doug O'Laughlin, Max Kan, Joey Brookhart
Jordan NanosDoug O'LaughlinMax KanJoey Brookhart
“Pacing” would slow Anthropic’s capability progress without halting training or compute purchases, potentially weakening its strongest internal model.Near-term scarcity and safety workloads keep compute demand elevated, while semiconductor signals increasingly depend on frontier-lab ARR and capacity premiums.Bank hacks, data leaks, or AI-assisted biological attacks could accelerate regulation.
Satya Nadella on the AI Doomer Slowdown, Microsoft’s Master Plan & Who Wins AI
Persistent AI agents create a new insider-risk category: even mundane enterprise tasks could trigger reward hacking or falsified books.Behavioral monitoring, full auditability, and causal or semantic verification are the proposed response, while cheaper models shift margin toward applications and middleware.Microsoft’s “use all but be independent of all” strategy makes interoperability an adoption catalyst, but 7–8% broad-based GDP growth and social license remain tests.
Elon Musk & Gwynne Shotwell on AI Risks and Peer Review, Starship, Terafab, SpaceX/Tesla Merger
Chamath PalihapitiyaJason CalacanisDavid SacksDavid FriedbergGwynne ShotwellElon Musk
Cross-lab AI peer review would give competitors pre-release API access to run logged safety harnesses, making distillation visible and raising reputational and product-liability stakes.Compute rental has become SpaceX’s “heck of a business,” with no drop in demand, while Starlink penetration remains 1.5–2%.Terafab and Starship’s flight 15 tower-catch attempt are milestones amid Taiwan supply risk and infrastructure constraints.
市场概述2026年9月15日
联储周三加息概率已升至94%,Jin称其是面对供应冲击的“credibility hike”,而非通胀失控;市场却已定价3.5至4次,远超Fed dot约一次。工资增速3.1%、consumer credit仅2.6%未显示螺旋,估值和credit spread也未现恐慌;加息若仅符合预期,市场仍偏谨慎乐观,但供应冲击与AI监管是风险。
Jensen Huang: The Doomer Hoax, Superintelligence is Here, and The Future of AI (ft. President Trump)
Jensen Huang cites failed forecasts on radiology, AI-generated code and entry-level jobs to challenge doomsday narratives, while arguing that AI incidents so far call for root-cause engineering and independent evaluation rather than sweeping regulation.With 80% of AI-native companies receiving $400 billion in recent venture funding using open models, NVIDIA is building infrastructure bottlenecks as Jensen predicts China will reach advanced lithography by 2030, leaving commercialization, lab controls and data-center execution to monitor.
Baylor CIO Morehead: velocity of cashback is what LPs actually want
David Morehead argues that fund multiples need a timeline: three six-year 3X growth-equity funds can compound to 27X versus 15X over 15–18 years.Baylor treats growth equity as its return engine, VC as diversification, and uses 10% market-decline increments while pricing cash at 8.5%.Software’s 50–60% selloff and permitted powered land offer differentiated opportunities, but permitting constraints and the unresolved AI adoption question remain key watchpoints.
AI Kills Everybody or Doomer Psyop? OpenAI’s Math Breakthrough, Nike’s $200B Collapse
Chamath PalihapitiyaJason CalacanisDavid SacksDavid Friedberg
Anthropic’s IPO faces a disclosure test after Evan Hubinger endorsed a greater-than-10% extinction probability, despite Polymarket’s 88% odds.Sacks argues rapid amplification may reflect a coordinated campaign targeting open-source weights, though that remains his interpretation.OpenAI’s Navier–Stokes result shows brute-force leverage, while data-leakage risks favor sovereign deployment and Nike’s 80% decline underscores a product, channel, and brand reset.









