This is the cleanest chart I've seen for understanding the AI infrastructure trade
Memory prices UP, token prices DOWN
If cheaper AI meant less demand for hardware, these lines would move together. They're doing the exact opposite. Here's why:
A token getting cheaper doesn't mean the task got smaller. Answering a question, running an agent, writing code... it takes roughly the same number of tokens as it did back in May when the price was double
Same tokens = same compute and memory burned per task
If anything it goes the other way. When tokens cost $2 per million, engineers optimized every prompt. At 97 cents, nobody bothers. Cheap tokens make people more lazy with tokens (I've watched it happen)
So the per-task hardware bill doesn't fall when token prices fall, what changes is the NUMBER of tasks
Every leg down in token prices unlocks use cases that were unprofitable before. More agents running, more workflows automated, more code generated. Total token consumption keeps climbing even as the unit price collapses
And all of those new tokens need memory and compute underneath them.
DDR5 spot prices are up over 50% this year and analysts don't see supply relief before late 2027 (Intel's CEO says the industry told him 2028)
The market keeps reading falling token prices as bearish for AI. This chart is telling you that the cheaper intelligence gets, the more of it we consume, and the more hardware we need to serve it
Cheaper output, scarcer input. You want to own the scarce input
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Confused by markets? They're in a weird place rn
- AI infra is down 35% from ATH, but up 35% from recent lows
- good SaaS is up 50% from lows, but down 30% from ATH
- Bitcoin is up 30% in 1 week, but still down 40% from ATH
WTF is going on? Here's my take:
1. since AI infra stocks peaked in June, the demand for compute has only accelerated and the economics of the frontier labs have only improved. fundamentally, this trade looks much better today than it did back in June and then prices are 35% lower
the main issue is that Oil is now back above $90, whereas when the infra stocks were at ATH, it was falling off a cliff into the $60s. The fear around the price of oil and rate hikes is holding the bottleneck stocks from going higher
to be fair, many of these stocks are still valued at high multiples, but they have obvious growth into the next few years so in my mind they are currently coiling while we wait for Oil to settle and the rate fears to dissipate (which will happen)
2. good SaaS sold off way too much alongside the SaaSpocalypse and became way too undervalued, especially as Q2 earnings came out and the market realized that some SaaS is accelerating from AI, not being disrupted. Those are the companies that are now up 50% from lows and are now back to more reasonable multiples (though I think there is still room for some of these to go higher without macro changing)
the companies are moving on earnings from low multiples, so even during an oil/rate fear, they can go higher so long as adoption goes higher (which it is)
the fear around Oil/rates are holding them back from reaching pro SaaSpocalypse multiples, though I'm unsure we will ever get back to that level anyway with the ongoing fear that AI will eventually disrupt all SaaS
3. Bitcoin responded to the treasury intervention to increase bond buybacks as they lose control of the long-end and will need to continue to intervene to manage this
Bitcoin and crypto looked ready to rebound into a bull market, but again, the price of Oil and rate fears the last few days have slowed down that move too
If we look at the lows of the AI infra sell-off, everything has gone up together in the last few weeks before Oil and rate hike fears moved higher putting everything into a holding pattern
Remove the Iran war and the price of Oil is at $60, inflation is not a concern and there is no world the FED is raising rates. At the same time, earnings are crushing, capex is expanding, unemployment is manageable... we would be in a killer bull market right now
My take is that Oil will continue its longer than expected journey lower as the Iran war gets settled, the FED won't raise rates in September and if they do, its one rate hike just for Warsh to prove he's not Trumps puppet, because they know inflation is coming lower into the rest of this year
we may continue to chop until the market figures this out, which might take us into October. I've been saying on the
@milkroadai podcast for weeks now that we are going to chop for a while here but we are preparing for an EVERYTHING Bull market to explode in Q4 and into next year
these moments in the market reward those who are patient. You can find great assets in infra, SaaS/application layer and crypto and I recommend holding all of them and buying on any dips we may get here in September
There's too much momentum underneath the market right now that is boiling and ready to push the market higher once Oil plays ball and it will soon, as everyone is incentived for it to... even Iran
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There it is!
@gavinsbaker is telling you the EVERYTHING bull market is coming from AI too
This is the exact thesis I have been laying out for the last few months
"Maybe everyone wins from AI. Anthropic wins, OpenAI wins, SpaceX wins, Meta wins. Google wins by selling a lot of TPUs. Open source wins, NeoClouds win, inference clouds win.Applications win too."
Everyone is so focused on what is going to go wrong and they are missing the fact that AI is providing an ROI for everyone across the entire stack
From infrastructure, to the model layer, to the application layer
Of course, there is a bit of hyperbole here. There will be some losers in terms of specific companies within specific layers
But the point of the EVERYTHING bull market is that every layer of the AI stack is currently winning and I don't see that slowing down anytime soon
So long as the application layer continues to see improved ROI then the demand will continue all the way down
This is why I continue to remain super bullish across the entire stack and hold a portfolio that is diversified across each layer
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This is INSANE!
Codex just 4x'd its user base in 7 WEEKS and it's now growing 5 Million USERS every 10 days!
The market continues to think frontier AI labs will "slowdown", but the opposite keeps happening
Here's what AI investors NEED to understand:
1. The frontier labs are all cooking at once. Codex exploded the day GPT-5.6 and ChatGPT Work launched (July 9, look at the inflection on the chart). Anthropic is compounding right beside it. And Grok is having a huge moment right now with GrokBot
2. The economics just flipped. Anthropic posted its first profitable quarter ever: $11.5B of revenue in Q2, up 14x year over year. And it appears OpenAI will be profitable at some point in Q3 as well
3. Every one of these users is driving more and more demand for compute. This is 25M people running coding agents and driving more and more inference demand than 25M users just using Chat
We're still very early in the adoption curve of Agent deployment, which means we have significantly more GWs needed to supply this demand
I keep hearing the bubble talk, but there's no way a bubble can happen with there is this much demand/growth
It's literally the opposite: demand is accelerating INTO the buildout. Users 4x in 7 weeks, revenue 14x in a year, and the first frontier lab just went profitable
My guess: this doesn't slow down anytime soon, and the biggest winners are still the companies selling compute, memory, and power to feed it (which is exactly how my portfolio is positioned)
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The best risk/reward in the market right now is $GLXY and it's not even close
In 2021 Galaxy was a pure crypto company managing $2.9B and the market valued it at $13B
Today it sits at the center of AI and crypto, the two massive trends... and it's worth $9B
Let me explain why that's insane
First, the crypto business now alone is bigger than the entire 2021 company
$7.1B in AUM + staked assets (2.4x the 2021 number)
$505M of gross profit last year, up 67%
And it kept growing right through this quarter's crypto drawdown (+34% QoQ)
But the the part that makes no sense for Galaxy's currently valuation is that Galaxy built one of the largest AI data center campuses in the US (Helios, Texas) and signed CoreWeave to a 15 year lease on 526MW of critical IT capacity
That one lease = $1B+ per year at 90%+ margins, worth up to $30B over 25 years with extensions
And the rent has already started. CoreWeave paid Galaxy $20M in Q2. Starting in Q3 it becomes $80M per quarter.
Here's the part nobody is pricing: the CoreWeave deal uses 800MW of the 5.7 GIGAWATTS of power Galaxy now controls across Texas
That's 7x the contracted capacity still waiting for tenants, in a market where power is THE bottleneck
The market doesn't love the single tenant risk, but if you're willing to take that risk, then today you pay $4B LESS than the 2021 peak and get 2.4x the crypto assets, plus a contracted AI infrastructure business that didn't exist back then at the start of a new crypto bull market.
This is a $40-$50 stock right now before crypto prices go higher. If we do enter a new bull market, then Galaxy is going to $100 faster than most people realize.
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Is the AI bubble in the room with us now?
In 2000, tech prices ran 480 points AHEAD of forward earnings. Today earnings are running ahead of price
That is the opposite of a bubble
3 things are true now that were not true in 1999 (This is why the Bull Market goes on):
1. The users are real and still accelerating
ChatGPT is at roughly 900 million weekly actives. Claude is around 245 million monthly. More than 1 billion people are using AI within 3 years
But consumer was never the question, Enterprise was, and enterprise is accelerated the most. 88% of organizations now use AI in at least one function, up from about 55% in 2024
2. The ROI is real across ALL layers
Companies that use AI are generating 3x more new revenue than companies who are not. Earnings are growing for companies using AI and that means the customers will continue to spend more on tokens. This is what matters the most.
The model layers are growing revenues, the customers are growing revenues and the infra stack is growing revenues. This is not a bubble.
3. Adoption is growing faster than we can physically build the infrastructure
This is the one I keep coming back to.
There are 2,200 GW of projects stuck in US interconnection queues on a five year average wait. A data center needs power immediately and they can't get it. This means, we physically can't overbuild infra right now. There's too many bottlenecks.
So watch the earnings, not the price. 2000 didn't break because prices were high, t broke because the earnings never showed up to justify them. This time they are showing up first (for now)
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Apple's stock had a solid Q2 as it benefited from no AI Capex
$AAPL became the 'safe haven' asset as hyperscalers guided into spending $100s of Billions and moving into negative FCF
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The earnings ended up being a miss and guided lower due to supply issues with Memory prices. They also missed on services revenue (as shown in the post below). Trimming was the right call.
The reason I continue to hold some Apple is I believe they will be the winner of AI, specifically, consumer agents
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Apple's stock had a solid Q2 as it benefited from no AI Capex
$AAPL became the 'safe haven' asset as hyperscalers guided into spending $100s of Billions and moving into negative FCF
Milk Road PRO members got in early with size and sold the top before Q2 earnings
Why sell?
Because Apple was already priced to absolute perfection and was valued at more than a 40 PE going into earnings. Even if they nailed earnings, the stock was extended.
Will Apple continue to be a great company? of course it will, but sometimes stocks get way over extended and that's exactly what happened last month in Apple. These are the times to take profits, even if you don't sell the full position bc you believe in the stock long-term
The earnings ended up being a miss and guided lower due to supply issues with Memory prices. They also missed on services revenue (as shown in the post below). Trimming was the right call.
The reason I continue to hold some Apple is I believe they will be the winner of AI, specifically, consumer agents
The new "smart Siri" will launch next month, alongside a full launch in their AI in-app developer tools and I believe this could be a breakthrough moment for AI (and another breakthrough moment for Apple).
Bringing agents, locally and privately, into the hands of billions of people with an easy UX and access to the entire data set on your devices. This could be a massive product
If I'm wrong, that's ok, I've already trimmed some solid profits from Apple after getting in early. If I'm right, AI can be the thing that pushes Apple to new highs
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If you have not figured it out yet, dips are for BUYING.
The AI capex cycle and data center buildout are not going anywhere.
Anyone panicking over hyperscaler spending does not understand how much compute will be required for the agentic AI and robotics economy.
We are nowhere near having enough capacity today.
We need dramatically more semiconductors, neocloud infrastructure, power generation, networking, cooling and memory.
I believe the strongest companies across these bottlenecks are going much higher.
This AI buildout still has years left, do not let short term volatility convince you the long-term thesis is broken.
The analysts at Milk Road PRO have absolutely nailed this trade so far.
We were early to $MU, $BE, $NBIS and several other major AI infrastructure winners, and we continue to use these dips as buying opportunities.
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crypto degens are a totally different breed
these guys are trading memecoins paired with unregistered, tokenized, pre-IPO stocks
tradfi aint ready for what's coming
For a long time now I've said that the onchain financial system has little value UNTIL it works with the best assets in the world
@coinbase is making this happen with their new tokenized stocks on
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We're already seeing plenty of DeFi protocols integrate these stocks into their service, enabling borrowing, lending, earning, LPing and more
These are the kind of things that retail can't do with their stocks inside a brokerage account in the traditional financial system
Especially investors outside of the USA who can barely even access these stocks
Now, with tokenized stocks, anyone in the world can access the best assets in the world, and use them within DeFi to generate additional returns
This is exactly what I've been waiting to see in crypto for many years
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@Bitwise jumping into the mix with automated thematic portfolios too
This ecosystem is going to grow massively in the coming months and I think this will be one of the big drivers of growth in crypto in the next 1-2 years
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For a long time now I've said that the onchain financial system has little value UNTIL it works with the best assets in the world
@coinbase is making this happen with their new tokenized stocks on
@base
We're already seeing plenty of DeFi protocols integrate these stocks into their service, enabling borrowing, lending, earning, LPing and more
These are the kind of things that retail can't do with their stocks inside a brokerage account in the traditional financial system
Especially investors outside of the USA who can barely even access these stocks
Now, with tokenized stocks, anyone in the world can access the best assets in the world, and use them within DeFi to generate additional returns
This is exactly what I've been waiting to see in crypto for many years
We even have
@Bitwise jumping into the mix with automated thematic portfolios too
This ecosystem is going to grow massively in the coming months and I think this will be one of the big drivers of growth in crypto in the next 1-2 years
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Earnings are growing FASTER than stock prices and ya'll still talking about a bubble?
This is one of the ingredients of the EVERYTHING bull market
Combine that with a rising ISM, cooling inflation and now Treasury intervention via buybacks and we have a recipe for MUCH HIGHER prices across the board
The areas to invest in right now are:
1. The AI infrastructure layer is growing as demand for compute increases
2. The AI application layer is growing as token costs become cheaper and more use cases are unlocked
3. Less investible, but even the model layer is growing as more users adopt AI for more use cases
4. And finally, the debasement trade is back on the table as Treasury and eventually the Fed work together to maintain the bond market, bringing gold, bitcoin, crypto and the long tail of risk assets back into the party
I think we finish this year MUCH higher than where we sit today
The only assets that don't go up are the ones sitting outside both trades. If it isn't levered to AI and it isn't levered to debasement, it's going to feel like a bear market
I prefer to allocate my portfolio across the layers mentioned above: Own the buildout, own the hard assets, and own the companies reinventing themselves with AI
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THE EVERYTHING BULL MARKET IS UPON US
Right now, we might be entering a world where stocks, crypto AND old will all join the EVERYTHING bull market party together.
Here are the key points behind this thesis:
1. The ISM is (finally) accelerating higher, last month printing above 56, showing the economy is expanding fast. (chart 1)
2. At the same time, earnings across the S&P 500 are absolutely crushing, well above bull market levels from 2021! (chart 2)
Now here’s where the Goldilocks moment kicks in.
Generally, when the economy and companies are doing so well, inflation heats up due to increased consumption as the job market is usually very robust and wages increase.
As a result, the FED needs to step in to slow down demand, usually through raising rates or some form of quantitative tightening, putting an end to the bull market (remember 2022?).
However, today’s world is unfolding a little differently.
Earnings are booming, yet payrolls aren’t moving. (chart 3)
In addition, inflation has actually been coming down over the last 2 months rather than increasing. (chart 4)
And to be fair, the only reason it’s above 3% in the first place is because the price of oil is artificially high due to the U.S. / Iran war, it has nothing to do with a booming economy.
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- A booming economy
- Incredible earnings
- Tamed inflation
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Now we're talking!
Stocks onchain only matter once it has the same rights as holding in a brokerage AND I can do it more with it
24/7 is cool, but its the composability with DeFi that is the REAL unlock
This is what I've been waiting for
Giving retail the ability to borrow, lend and earn with their stocks is something that will actually move retail investors from holding stocks in brokerages to holding stocks onchain
There have been many half-way attempts so far in crypto on tokenized stocks, but nothing that outcompetes the current way the world uses stocks (without a lot more added risk)
I figured Coinbase would be the first to figure this out
Now the question is can they get non-crypto users to move from off-chain assets to onchain assets? They will need to make this "no-brainer".
My guess is solid incentives will be user for users to trade in their old stocks on brokerages and move into tokenized stocks onchain
Even better, if can Coinbase find a way for people to easily transfer their assets over, like how you can from investing accounts in tradfi today
Love to see this finally launched. Big step forward for RWAs onchain!
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I think $BE is one of the best ways to invest in the AI infra build out right now
As I've said before, POWER is the biggest bottleneck in AI
Bloom Energy is one of the few companies that can provide power to almost any data centre in the country
It's down 42% from ATHs, just bounced off its bull market trend line and had an absolute stellar Q2 earnings
Even if we overbuild chips and can't energize them, while most of the AI infra stocks will get crushed, Bloom Energy SHOULD continue to perform well as its product becomes even more in-demand
I believe Bloom will be able to hold or grow margins for multiple years out as the USA will not be fixing its power issue anytime soon due to politics and regulatory concerns... not to mention its not an easy thing to fix and takes many years to build solutions
In the interim, Bloom will be the solution for many data centers
The main thing in question is can Bloom scale its operations enough to meet the growing demand for its product. If they can, I think Bloom can go much higher from here
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