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20VCEN · 83 min

NVIDIA buys Poolside & backs Mercor; OpenAI IPO; Anthropic's $30T TAM

Harry Stebbings

NVIDIA’s $6B Poolside licensing deal, $1B investment at a $12B pre-money valuation, and 109-engineer transfer show frontier-model capital intensity pushing capable startups toward strategic “failure” exits.OpenAI’s 2027 IPO appears compelled by Anthropic’s $60B mid-year run rate versus under $30B this year, while enterprises’ $200–400B AI-spending capacity remains the key test.

高能量ZH · 83 min

Vol.222 宏观漫谈107|2026年以来,中国经济结构调整的四大新变化(6.23录制)

李翔李丰

李峰判断中国经济新旧替换已到拐点,芯片进口或达5000多亿美金、出口3000多亿,全球AI资本开支正成为科技增长的重要驱动。人民币相对强势被用于提升进口能力并调平贸易顺差,四五十万亿定存到期将流向理财、保险、权益产品与提前还贷;地方财政则从土地转向股权,五十四号文和消费税落地是后续变量。

高能量ZH · 89 min

Vol.214 宏观漫谈104|一季度GDP增长5%,谁在支撑中国经济(4.25录制)

李翔李丰

中国一季度GDP增长5%,消费与投资贡献超过八成,进出口虽增长约15%,对GDP贡献仍不到六分之一。房地产仍有负拉动,基建与高技术制造托住投资;三个500亿元母基金或撬动约6000亿元,投早投小成为新催化剂。

MoonshotsEN · 112 min

Ben Horowitz: xAI Executive Exodus, Apple's AI Crisis, The Pace of AI | EP #232

Peter DiamandisBen HorowitzSalim IsmailDave BlundinDr. Alexander Wissner-Gross

Recursive self-improvement is already operating as frontier models propose experiments, optimize inference loops, and develop successor models, even with humans still pressing approval buttons.AI economics favor capital-intensive platforms and rapid distribution, while Apple’s local-agent hardware opening and the unresolved xAI departures make infrastructure, talent controls, and adoption timing key variables to monitor.

All-InEN · 87 min

Howard Lutnick: How America Can Hit 6% GDP Growth in 2026

Howard LutnickChamath Palihapitiya

Howard Lutnick forecasts U.S.GDP growth in the “fives” and potentially “sixes” if rates fall, tying the outcome to $18 trillion of pledged investment, new construction, tariff revenue, and domestic capacity in strategic industries.His industrial-policy mechanism exchanges market access for financing, reshoring, drug-price concessions, semiconductor capacity, and government equity, while execution risk remains concentrated in unverified forecasts, trade negotiations, and the timing of factory investment.

20VCEN · 84 min

Groq’s $20BN NVIDIA Deal | Why Sam Altman Doesn’t Care About Dilution & Invisible Unemployment 2026

Harry Stebbings

NVIDIA’s $20 billion Groq deal is strategic insurance against an inference-first market where predictable, low-latency performance could pressure its exceptional margins.Manus reached $100 million of ARR before Meta paid $2.5 billion, while Navan’s roughly 4x ARR public valuation highlights how optional and unattractive IPOs have become.

BG2EN · 73 min

Liberation Day, Tariffs, US v China Open Source, OpenAI, $CRWV, TikTok | BG2

Bill GurleyBrad Gerstner

Trump’s Liberation Day tariffs, the uncertain path to a deal with Xi, and the resulting shock to business investment frame a broader discussion of how geopolitics is reshaping AI.The conversation weighs OpenAI’s strategy and valuation, agent-driven threats to Google, CoreWeave’s durability, and the policy choices that could determine which technology platforms endure.