Serenity — Asian coverage of Hock Tan's DBS remarks has him defending OpenAI, not calling AI a casino

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Serenity — Asian coverage of Hock Tan's DBS remarks has him defending OpenAI, not calling AI a casino

Serenity collects Hong Kong Economic Journal and Business Times coverage of Broadcom CEO Hock Tan at the DBS conference. In that coverage Tan called OpenAI's roughly $50 billion run-rate "by itself, not that bad", rejected the idea that OpenAI is overvalued, aimed the casino line at investors selling on one data point, and named high interest rates as a capital constraint. A useful counter-read to Monday's "AI investors are gamblers" headlines, though the quotes come through Serenity, not the original articles.

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Oct 12

So spent some more time to look at more DBS conference material: - "Two semiconductor giants, $AVGO and $INTC, both stated that breakthroughs in AI will keep demand for chip investment elevated for at least another 2 years. As current supply is insufficient to meet market

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Wow this is sad to see Korean markets with $SKHY / Samsung crash like this.

Special thanks to $AVGO CEO adding fuel the fire…

Calling AI investors gamblers and saying enterprise AI isn’t delivering ROI.

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Serenity collects Hong Kong Economic Journal and Business Times coverage of Broadcom CEO Hock Tan at the DBS conference. In that coverage Tan called OpenAI's roughly $50 billion run-rate "by itself, not that bad", rejected the idea that OpenAI is overvalued, aimed the casino line at investors selling on one data point, and named high interest rates as a capital constraint. A useful counter-read to Monday's "AI investors are gamblers" headlines, though the quotes come through Serenity, not the original articles.

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