"Is there an AI bubble?” Gavin Baker and David George
Episode
31 min
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2 min
Topics
Artificial Intelligence
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What It Covers
Gavin Baker and David George analyze whether AI represents a bubble, comparing current GPU utilization to 2000's dark fiber overcapacity while examining infrastructure spending and market dynamics.
Notable Moment
Baker argues that unlike 2000's telecom bubble where 97 percent of fiber remained unlit, today's AI infrastructure shows no dark GPUs with all capacity actively utilized.
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