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🤖 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.

0 CONVICTION
peaked 74.0 GREEN
EMBER
band · contested
▲ LONG MSFT
expression · bullish tech
RIGHT
result · return +65.0% · vs SPY +42.5%
2024-01-06
born 2023-01-06 (E110) → window closed

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

  1. Window: 2023-01-06 → 2024-01-06 — first mention + 12-month horizon, then the window locks.
  2. 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).
  3. 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.
  4. 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
  5. 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

expressionsymbolkindrelevancerationale
▲ LONG MSFTstock PRIMARY the predicted mega-investment/Bing integration makes MSFT the public proxy

Mention log newest first

Chamath
Chamath tech 45% · n=84 · E147 (2023-09-29) · explicit_prediction · strength 2 ▶ 1:06:23 SUPPORT
“Sam is the closest thing that we have to an emergent mogul in tech. And the reason is because if everything sits on this substrate, you're going to need to get a license.”
Sacks
Sacks tech 39% · n=53 · E135 (2023-07-01) · sentiment · strength 2 ▶ 1:07:53 OPPOSE
“But they do not want to share their data with OpenAI. That's very clear. They want to roll out their own models.”
Brad Gerstner
Brad Gerstner (regular guest ×1.0) tech 71% · n=17 · E133 (2023-06-16) · sentiment · strength 2 ▶ 47:24 SUPPORT
“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.”
Jason
Jason tech 53% · n=56 · E129 (2023-05-19) · explicit_prediction · strength 2 ▶ 58:17 SUPPORT
“Oh, that's game over, man. This thing is an app form. That's going to 10x the number of users, and it's going to 10x the amount of usage.”
Sacks
Sacks tech 39% · n=53 · E122 (2023-03-31) · explicit_prediction · strength 3 ▶ 26:38 SUPPORT · horizon 12mo
“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.”
Chamath
Chamath tech 45% · n=84 · E118 (2023-03-03) · explicit_prediction · strength 2 ▶ 23:53 SUPPORT
“For OpenAI, the way that it could become a trillion dollar company is actually by cutting the cost to such a low degree that nobody else can effectively compete with it.”
Sacks
Sacks tech 39% · n=53 · E118 (2023-03-03) · sentiment · strength 2 ▶ 20:21 SUPPORT
“So I think this is going to be a game changer. I think this is based on the ChatGPT 3.5 API and, of course, coming out with 4 later this year.”
Sacks
Sacks tech 39% · n=53 · E116 (2023-02-17) · explicit_prediction · strength 3 ▶ 1:08:54 SUPPORT
“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.”
Jason
Jason tech 53% · n=56 · E116 (2023-02-17) · sentiment · strength 2 ▶ 1:06:33 SUPPORT
“They only released it when Sam Altman in his brilliance got Microsoft to integrate this immediately and see it as a competitive advantage.”
Jason
Jason tech 53% · n=56 · E115 (2023-02-11) · sentiment · strength 2 ▶ 33:01 SUPPORT
“And Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, he is going ham. He looks great. He's fit. He's wearing a tight t-shirt. And he is saying he's going to make Google dance.”
Chamath
Chamath tech 45% · n=84 · E111 (2023-01-13) · sentiment · strength 1 ▶ 51:20 SUPPORT
“So to the extent you're going to invest, it makes sense that you put money into OpenAI because that's safe.”
Friedberg
Friedberg tech 55% · n=66 · E111 (2023-01-13) · sentiment · strength 2 ▶ 29:45 SUPPORT
“That's one way to look at it. That's also a naive way to look at a lot of other businesses that ended up being worth a lot down the road.”
Jason
Jason tech 53% · n=56 · E111 (2023-01-13) · sentiment · strength 2 ▶ 29:39 OPPOSE
“Well, I mean, yeah. So what I'd say is $29 billion for a company that's losing a billion dollars in Azure credits a year.”
Jason
Jason tech 53% · n=56 · E110 (2023-01-06) · explicit_prediction · strength 2 ▶ 1:30:31 OPPOSE
“They don't have the rights to the data they built the training set on. And the second they commercialize it... they're going to get sued into oblivion. I predict sued into oblivion.”
Chamath
Chamath tech 45% · n=84 · E110 (2023-01-06) · sentiment · strength 1 ▶ 1:28:43 OPPOSE
“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?”
Friedberg
Friedberg tech 55% · n=66 · E110 (2023-01-06) · annual_prediction · strength 3 ▶ 24:25 SUPPORT · horizon 12mo
“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

Friedberg
Friedberg 55%
2 scoring events · 32% of moves
+60.8 → net +60.8
Jason
Jason 53%
5 scoring events · 26% of moves
+25.1 / -24.0 → net +1.1
Sacks
Sacks 39%
4 scoring events · 20% of moves
+24.9 / -12.0 → net +12.9
Chamath
Chamath 45%
4 scoring events · 17% of moves
+22.9 / -9.6 → net +13.3
Brad Gerstner
Brad Gerstner 71% regular guest ×1.0
1 scoring event · 5% of moves
+9.6 → net +9.6

⏳ decay drained -67.4 over the idea's life — that's time passing, attributed to no one

Score events

episodekindΔafternote
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