Ben Horowitz

Andy Jassy × Ben Horowitz × Erik Torenberg

Amazon expects about $220 billion of 2026 CapEx, yet AWS capacity is sold out for 2026, largely for 2027, and partly for 2028; AWS AI has exceeded a $25 billion revenue run rate.Data centers require investment roughly two years before monetization, pressuring free cash flow; broader enterprise inference adoption also hinges on costs Jassy still calls an order of magnitude too high.

Ben Horowitz

CoreWeave’s 953-basis-point CDS implies 16% annual default risk; fixed-price contracts and $35 billion more to raise leave Chamath’s team estimating a $5 billion break-even gap.Sacks sees demand holding, but financing costs remain a risk; Chamath urges Anthropic to raise at least $200 billion for compute, with SemiAnalysis estimating it and OpenAI will take 60% of next year’s global additions.

Ben Horowitz × Martin Casado × Raghu Raghuram × Erik Torenberg

a16z’s new AI infrastructure fund captures a founder migration into hardware, with top-founder hardware pitches rising from roughly 3–5% to “north of 20% or 30%.”Hyperscaler capex, booked-out GPUs and resale premiums support opportunities across chips, power and cooling, while grid shortages, regulation and uncontrolled agent spending remain constraints.

Peter Diamandis × Ben Horowitz × Salim Ismail × Dave Blundin × Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross

Recursive self-improvement is already operating as frontier models propose experiments, optimize inference loops, and develop successor models, even with humans still pressing approval buttons.AI economics favor capital-intensive platforms and rapid distribution, while Apple’s local-agent hardware opening and the unresolved xAI departures make infrastructure, talent controls, and adoption timing key variables to monitor.