🤖 OpenAI is 2023's biggest winner — Microsoft deal inevitable
OpenAI becomes the AWS of AI or lands a massive Microsoft deal ('a billion dollar plus investment this year is inevitable', AI-powered Bing) and exits 2023 as one of the valley's top companies; at the $29B tender it 'could be a $300 billion company'. OpenAI is private — MSFT is the tradeable expression.
other ideas on the same ticker, same direction: Own AWS, Azure and GCP and nothing else — the clouds capture the AI application dollars 48 (MSFT) · Frontier AI labs keep durable premium pricing (not commoditized) 38 (MSFT) · SaaSpocalypse is overdone for compliance-moat enterprise software 24 (MSFT) · ChatGPT takes Google search share and the market starts pricing the decay 21 (MSFT) · Independent frontier-model labs lose to hyperscaler capital 18 (MSFT)
⚖ Why this result
fully deterministic — computed from daily closes on the scoring date; nothing below is editable or hand-set
- Window: 2023-01-06 → 2024-01-06 — first mention + 12-month horizon, then the window locks.
- The call: ▲ LONG MSFT (primary play). MSFT rose 65.0% over the window → return (sign flipped for a SHORT) = +65.0% (the call made money).
- Benchmark: holding SPY over the same window returned +22.4% → vs SPY = +65.0 − (+22.4) = +42.5% — what this call made or lost against just owning the index. This is the number the result uses.
- Rule fired:
▶ RIGHT — return ≥ +10% AND beat SPY by 5+ ✓ (return 65.0, vs SPY 42.5)· HALF — return ≥ +5% OR beat SPY at all· WRONG — everything else
- Credit: supporters of a RIGHT earn 1.0 each, opposers the opposite — this feeds the scoreboard. supported: Brad Gerstner, Chamath, Friedberg, Jason | opposed: Sacks
Conviction timeline
bands: green ≥ 65 · watch ≥ 45 · ember ≥ 15
Plays vs SPY · % since first mention (2023-01-06)
Plays
| expression | symbol | kind | relevance | rationale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▲ LONG | MSFT | stock | PRIMARY | the predicted mega-investment/Bing integration makes MSFT the public proxy |
Mention log newest first
“I'll just say the number of people I interact with on a global basis who talk about ChatGPT versus BARD is like 10 to 1 today.”
“However, I actually think that OpenAI has demonstrated now with these platform features that it has a lead, a substantial lead, and I actually think that lead is likely to grow in the next year.”
“I mean, GPT-4 is coming out, I think, in the next several months, and it's supposedly, you know, a huge advancement over version 3 So, I think that a lot of these holes in the capabilities are getting fixed, and the AI is only going one direction, Jason, which is more and more powerful.”
“unsupervised learning models, if you run them on the same training set, will converge to the same answer. ... to be really defensible, you have to get there in a unique way. ... you think Google is sitting on their hands?”
“My big bet is OpenAI. It's just way too obvious to be anything else this year. ... it's inevitable they're going to get a billion dollar plus investment this year. ... That could be a $300 billion company. That's a 10X.”
Who built this conviction
each voice's total push on the score, in conviction points across every mention — supports and opposes · share = % of all mention-driven movement
⏳ decay drained -67.4 over the idea's life — that's time passing, attributed to no one
Score events
| episode | kind | Δ | after | note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| E110 2023-01-06 | init | +48.0 | 48.0 | E110 born by Friedberg (annual_prediction x3) |
| E110 2023-01-06 | oppose | -9.6 | 38.4 | E110 Chamath opposes x1 |
| E110 2023-01-06 | oppose | -12.0 | 26.4 | E110 Jason opposes x2 |
| E111 2023-01-13 | oppose | -12.0 | 14.4 | E111 Jason opposes x2 |
| E111 2023-01-13 | reinforce | +12.8 | 27.2 | E111 Friedberg support x2 |
| E111 2023-01-13 | reinforce | +8.7 | 36.0 | E111 Chamath support x1 (flipped from oppose) |
| E112 2023-01-20 | decay | -1.4 | 34.5 | E112 silent |
| E113 2023-01-27 | decay | -1.4 | 33.2 | E113 silent |
| E114 2023-02-04 | decay | -1.3 | 31.8 | E114 silent |
| E115 2023-02-11 | reinforce | +10.2 | 42.1 | E115 Jason support x2 (flipped from oppose) |
| E116 2023-02-17 | reinforce | +8.7 | 50.7 | E116 Jason support x2 |
| E116 2023-02-17 | reinforce | +13.3 | 64.0 | E116 Sacks support x3 (new voice) |
| E118 2023-03-03 | reinforce | +5.4 | 69.4 | E118 Sacks support x2 |
| E118 2023-03-03 | reinforce | +4.6 | 74.0 | E118 Chamath support x2 |
| E119 2023-03-11 | decay | -3.0 | 71.1 | E119 silent |
| E120 2023-03-17 | decay | -2.8 | 68.2 | E120 silent |
| E121 2023-03-24 | decay | -2.7 | 65.5 | E121 silent |
| E122 2023-03-31 | reinforce | +6.2 | 71.7 | E122 Sacks support x3 |
| E123 2023-04-07 | decay | -2.9 | 68.8 | E123 silent |
| E124 2023-04-14 | decay | -2.8 | 66.1 | E124 silent |
| E125 2023-04-21 | decay | -2.6 | 63.4 | E125 silent |
| E126 2023-04-28 | decay | -2.5 | 60.9 | E126 silent |
| E128 2023-05-12 | decay | -2.4 | 58.5 | E128 silent |
| E129 2023-05-19 | reinforce | +6.2 | 64.7 | E129 Jason support x2 |
| E130 2023-05-26 | decay | -2.6 | 62.1 | E130 silent |
| E131 2023-06-02 | decay | -2.5 | 59.6 | E131 silent |
| E132 2023-06-10 | decay | -2.4 | 57.2 | E132 silent |
| E133 2023-06-16 | reinforce | +9.6 | 66.9 | E133 Brad Gerstner support x2 (new voice) |
| E134 2023-06-24 | decay | -2.7 | 64.2 | E134 silent |
| E135 2023-07-01 | oppose | -12.0 | 52.2 | E135 Sacks opposes x2 |
| E136 2023-07-09 | decay | -2.1 | 50.1 | E136 silent |
| E137 2023-07-14 | decay | -2.0 | 48.1 | E137 silent |
| E139 2023-07-27 | decay | -1.9 | 46.2 | E139 silent |
| E140 2023-08-04 | decay | -1.8 | 44.3 | E140 silent |
| E141 2023-08-11 | decay | -1.8 | 42.5 | E141 silent |
| E142 2023-08-18 | decay | -1.7 | 40.8 | E142 silent |
| E143 2023-08-25 | decay | -1.6 | 39.2 | E143 silent |
| E144 2023-09-01 | decay | -1.6 | 37.6 | E144 silent |
| E146 2023-09-22 | decay | -1.5 | 36.1 | E146 silent |
| E147 2023-09-29 | reinforce | +9.6 | 45.7 | E147 Chamath support x2 |
| E148 2023-10-07 | decay | -1.8 | 43.9 | E148 silent |
| E149 2023-10-13 | decay | -1.8 | 42.1 | E149 silent |
| E150 2023-10-20 | decay | -1.7 | 40.4 | E150 silent |
| E151 2023-10-27 | decay | -1.6 | 38.8 | E151 silent |
| E152 2023-11-03 | decay | -1.6 | 37.3 | E152 silent |
| E156 2023-12-08 | decay | -1.5 | 35.8 | E156 silent |
| E157 2023-12-16 | decay | -1.4 | 34.4 | E157 silent |
| E158 2023-12-23 | decay | -1.4 | 33.0 | E158 silent |
| E159 2023-12-29 | decay | -1.3 | 31.7 | E159 silent |
| E160 2024-01-06 | decay | -1.3 | 30.4 | E160 silent |