Crakie schreef op donderdag 22 februari 2024 @ 11:25:
"To get to a $740 share price simply requires that the company maintain a monopolist-like operating profit margin of 55 per cent for the next decade, while also growing sales tenfold, from $60bn a year to more than $600bn." (
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Wat zegt dit dan over ASML? Die zitten daar al ondanks dat ze minder omzet hebben.
Verder, ik las gister een heel goed artikel over dit onderwerp op
The Verge:
The frenzied hype around AI kept expectations high. The earnings calls disappointed. 2024 is going to be a year of reckoning.
“Microsoft is ahead of Google and basically anyone else,” Niewinski says. Their partnership with OpenAI — about which, more in a minute — also lets them source development in ways that may be more important than just simple investment return, he told me. “Everyone knows ChatGPT and OpenAI and everyone knows Copilot. But it took me a couple seconds to remind myself that Google has Bard, because no one is actually using this name.”
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Whether Copilot is actually worth its price remains an open question. Certainly, AI didn’t help Microsoft in search — for all the hype around incorporating AI into its Bing search engine, its market share grew by less than half a percent. Microsoft seems to have been fumbling for a good use for Copilot, too; the brand started at GitHub and moved into sales products and then into Microsoft Office apps. Even Microsoft’s Super Bowl ad is vague — if there’s a killer use case, the company hasn’t yet found it.
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AI is expensive. Take OpenAI, for instance; in December 2023, its annualized run rate was $2 billion. Because that’s a figure that takes the previous month’s revenue and then multiplies it by 12, we know that means that OpenAI made roughly $167 million that month. It is nonetheless operating at a loss and will likely need to raise “tens of billions more” to keep going, the Financial Times reported. Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, has been seeking trillions of dollars in investment to entirely reshape the chip industry. Meanwhile, ChatGPT’s growth has ground to a halt.
TLDR: we zitten oksel diep in de AI Hype cycle, maar de bekendste en grootste initiatieven zoals ChatGPT en Copilot lijken niet direct de cash-cow te zijn die men verwacht, terwijl ze heel duur zijn om te draaien. Ook lijken de investeringen voor 2024 niet heel groot te zijn vanwege bepekte aanwezigheid van VC en hoge rentes.
Het kan dus zijn dat er een aantal startups hele mooie dingen gaan maken dit jaar, of het kan zijn dat de bubbel leegloopt. Of de bubbel kan knallen zoals bij de DotCom crisis.
In het beste geval zijn we nu aan het pieken en krijg je een stabiel plafond, maar ik zie vooral mogelijkheden tot een neergang...