Compute Is A Trillion-Dollar Market Trading In Group Chats | Brett Harrison & Andrawes Bahou
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Compute Is A Trillion-Dollar Market Trading In Group Chats | Brett Harrison & Andrawes Bahou

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 5, 20261 hr 5 min
  • Business & money

How do you price a commodity that still clears in text messages? This week, we're joined by Brett Harrison of Architect and Andrawes Bahou of Compute Desk to discuss why GPU compute needs a futures market for better pricing and hedging. We explore the opaque broker markets quoting GPUs that don't exist, buyers paying up to 2x to get chips sooner, hyperscaler cash flow going negative, and the biggest constraints in the AI market. Enjoy! TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Intro 00:59 Why Does Compute...

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Welcome to Token 2049. Token 2049 is back October 7 and 8, bringing together 25,000 attendees, 300 speakers, and 500 exhibitors for the world's largest crypto event. Token 2049 is happening alongside and in partnership with our own Digital Asset Summit Asia, so you can experience both conferences in Singapore during the same week. Across token, 2049 week, there'll be more than 1,000 side events,

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