Breaking: Michael Burry says AI's biggest customers are "tokenmaxxing"
The pyramid of customers who become competitors:
Tier 1: frontier model builders: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, Meta, xAI. 7 to 10 companies
Tier 2: vertical LLM builders: Salesforce, ServiceNow, SAP, Bloomberg, IBM. 30 to 50 companies
Tier 3: Fortune 500 building proprietary AI: JPMorgan, UnitedHealth, Walmart, CVS. 200 to 500 companies
Tier 4: true pure consumers: mid-market companies and traditional manufacturers. Fewer companies remain as they climb the pyramid, per Burry's SubStack