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Jason predicts a “major M&A moment” in the next six months! | E2213

55 min episode · 2 min read
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55 min

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2 min

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Fundraising & VC, Design & UX, Artificial Intelligence

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Key Takeaways

  • GPU Depreciation Economics: Hyperscalers extended GPU useful life from 3-4 years to 5-6 years based on actual performance data. NVIDIA confirms A100 chips shipped six years ago still run at full utilization, validating longer depreciation schedules despite fraud accusations from Michael Burry.
  • Google AI Market Position: Gemini reaches 650 million monthly app users plus 2 billion using AI overviews in search, totaling approximately 1.2 billion users versus ChatGPT's 900 million monthly users. Google wins consumer AI adoption through product integration and forced distribution across existing platforms.
  • M&A Prediction Framework: Companies valued between 25 billion and 250 billion dollars will see acquisition discussions in next twelve months. Potential combinations include Amazon-DoorDash, Uber-Waymo, Tesla-Uber, or Apple-Figma as regulatory environment shifts under new administration and FTC enforcement weakens significantly.
  • AI Image Generation Capability: Gemini Three Pro creates publication-ready infographics from single prompts without additional data input, matching quality of 50-70 thousand dollar annual designer output. ChatGPT produces inferior results with text errors and layout problems, demonstrating Google's current technical advantage in multimodal generation.

What It Covers

Jason predicts major M&A activity within six months as regulatory barriers ease, while Google's Gemini surpasses ChatGPT in consumer adoption with 1.2 billion monthly users versus OpenAI's 900 million monthly users.

Key Questions Answered

  • GPU Depreciation Economics: Hyperscalers extended GPU useful life from 3-4 years to 5-6 years based on actual performance data. NVIDIA confirms A100 chips shipped six years ago still run at full utilization, validating longer depreciation schedules despite fraud accusations from Michael Burry.
  • Google AI Market Position: Gemini reaches 650 million monthly app users plus 2 billion using AI overviews in search, totaling approximately 1.2 billion users versus ChatGPT's 900 million monthly users. Google wins consumer AI adoption through product integration and forced distribution across existing platforms.
  • M&A Prediction Framework: Companies valued between 25 billion and 250 billion dollars will see acquisition discussions in next twelve months. Potential combinations include Amazon-DoorDash, Uber-Waymo, Tesla-Uber, or Apple-Figma as regulatory environment shifts under new administration and FTC enforcement weakens significantly.
  • AI Image Generation Capability: Gemini Three Pro creates publication-ready infographics from single prompts without additional data input, matching quality of 50-70 thousand dollar annual designer output. ChatGPT produces inferior results with text errors and layout problems, demonstrating Google's current technical advantage in multimodal generation.

Notable Moment

Jason demonstrates how Gemini generated a magazine-quality Austin barbecue infographic with accurate data and proper spelling in seconds, work that previously required a week from a professional designer costing two thousand dollars internally.

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Episode Transcript

If that's happening every two to three years, that means, theoretically, that you might buy more of them. But that does not mean that you're throwing the old ones away. That's ludicrous. That would be like saying I had a Corvette c seven, and the c eight eighth generation came out. So I took the c seven, and I parked it in the garage. And, yeah, they just took the air out of the tires and the battery, and I put it on a cinderbox, and that's it. It's it's over. The that car can't be used ever. It's got 30,000 miles on it. That car is gonna be driven for another ten years. What are we talking about here? It's not that egregious to think that Oracle believed in 2020 that they would get five years of life out of one of this depreciating assets. Then, you know, the next three years, they said, yeah. Still five. And then in 2024, they said, you know what? We think it's six. And the Microsoft one is more dramatic. It goes from three years of useful life to six. So they doubled, but everybody's winding up at five and a half six six six five. And the year before, it was four and a half six six six six. So Amazon brought it down a year. These are all kind of within 30%. Right? This Week in Startups is brought to you by Northwest Registered Agent. Starting your business should be simple. With Northwest registered agent, you can form your entire business identity in just 10 clicks and ten minutes. From LLCs to trademarks, domains to custom websites, they have got you covered. Get more privacy, more options, and more done. Visit northwest register agents dot com slash twist today. Crusoe cloud. Crusoe is the AI factory company, reliable infrastructure, and expert support. Visit crusoe.ai/build to reserve your capacity for the latest GPUs today. And Pipedrive. Bring clarity and control to your sales process with Pipedrive, the number one CRM for small and medium sized businesses. Supercharge your sales today. Start with a thirty day free trial. Pipedrive.com/twist. Alright, everybody. Welcome back to This Week in Startups. I'm your host, Jason Calacanis here with me, Alex Wilhelm again, and I am in Vegas. If you're watching the video on YouTube or Spotify, I'm in my suite at the Venetian. Thanks to my friends at the Venetian for their hospitality. I'm here for f one with the all in podcast doing, I'm gonna do a hot lap. And then, they did all these, like, really nice things for me. Look. They built this, like, little chocolate thing for me, for oh, there goes all the chocolates. But you can eat this whole thing. I can eat the track, I guess, and all the little chocolates on top of it. Is that a roulette wheel made of candy? Yeah. Basically. It's a roulette wheel with but it's also like a track. They redid …

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    Google's Gemini surpasses ChatGPT in consumer adoption with 1.2 billion monthly users versus OpenAI's 900 million monthly users.
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    Google's Gemini surpasses ChatGPT in consumer adoption with 1.2 billion monthly users versus OpenAI's 900 million monthly users.

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