Alex Kantrowitz
Founder of Big Technology newsletter & podcast
aka Alex Cantrowicz
“the constraint within China is compute, because we will not sell the cutting edge Nvidia chips to China. So what China has to do is specialize.”
“now when it looks like you're going to have 5, 6, 7, 8 companies doing it, all of a sudden selling that at a markup is no longer possible and you start to see a price war come out.”
“you go from AI progress, then typically there's an AI winter. I'm not saying that's going to happen here, but.”
“The SaaS apocalypse is coming from potentially, if it was gonna happen, it would come from an OpenAI or Anthropic saying, we wanna play in that model. Just we'll do everything.”
Alex Kantrowitz
One-line summary: Big-tech journalist; argues compute demand is about to explode, model-layer value commoditizes toward products/compute, and price wars emerge as 5-8 labs reach parity.
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On open-source-share-shift-bullish-for-compute:
"the constraint within China is compute, because we will not sell the cutting edge Nvidia chips to China. So what China has to do is specialize." — 2026-07-31-podcast-the-compound-and-friends-why-demand-for-compute-is-about-to-explode-with (2026-07-31)
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On open-source-share-shift-bullish-for-compute:
"now when it looks like you're going to have 5, 6, 7, 8 companies doing it, all of a sudden selling that at a markup is no longer possible and you start to see a price war come out." — 2026-07-31-podcast-the-compound-and-friends-why-demand-for-compute-is-about-to-explode-with (2026-07-31)
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On ai-roi-reckoning:
"you go from AI progress, then typically there's an AI winter. I'm not saying that's going to happen here, but." — 2026-07-31-podcast-the-compound-and-friends-why-demand-for-compute-is-about-to-explode-with (2026-07-31)
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On ai-roi-reckoning:
"The SaaS apocalypse is coming from potentially, if it was gonna happen, it would come from an OpenAI or Anthropic saying, we wanna play in that model. Just we'll do everything." — 2026-07-31-podcast-the-compound-and-friends-why-demand-for-compute-is-about-to-explode-with (2026-07-31)
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