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On the drive after Anthropic filed its S-1, Ram walks through what stood out to him: the gross margin line is gone, replaced by an expense allocation, customer concentration is lower than he expected, and the CapEx obligations look manageable against the revenue coming in. He contrasts that with OpenAI's position and calls the frontier lab race a power-law game, while dismissing the filing's market-size estimate.Then the engineer's view. Top engineers now work in a harness that orchestrates agents across models, with OpenRouter routing each token, and Ram shares how Lumida's own agents went from talking in Slack to dedicated orchestration tools. He covers Anthropic's pricing tests, who owns the customer's desktop, a zero-margin rival to Higgsfield, and why the labs look more like 90s search engines than imperialists.He asks Grok for the least-reported S-1 details, adds his own read on depreciation and the revenue tied to Amazon, and closes on chipmakers financing their customers, value in U.S. grid infrastructure, and the sell-off in Brazil.Chapters(00:00) AI agents are a bigger deal than we think(00:30) Anthropic's S-1 drops the gross margin(01:18) Customer concentration is lower than expected(01:43) CapEx obligations and pole position over OpenAI(02:51) A 40 trillion dollar TAM is nonsense(03:26) Why Ram would be a net seller of frontier labs(04:16) Top engineers now work in a harness(05:26) Anthropic's pricing tests and why Claude won't go bankrupt(06:20) Will engineers keep trusting Anthropic?(06:43) Agent orchestration tools are moving fast(08:04) Why Ram tunes in on left-hand turns(08:31) Who owns the customer desktop?(09:15) A zero-margin rival takes on Higgsfield(09:40) AI labs are like 90s search engines, not imperialists(10:46) Grok on the least-reported S-1 details(13:43) Depreciation and the revenue tied to Amazon(14:19) Chipmakers are financing their customers(15:38) Bargains in U.S. grid infrastructure(16:34) Brazil sold off, and that could be an opportunityLumida Wealth Management LLC is a registered investment adviser. SEC registration does not constitute endorsement by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and does not indicate a particular level of skill or ability.References to companies, industry themes, market statistics, prior investment activity, or case studies are included for context and should not be construed as a recommendation or endorsement.Prospective investors should conduct their own diligence and consult their own legal, tax, and financial advisers as appropriate. Connect with Us Online:Lumida NewsLumida DealsLumida WealthLumida ETF Watch the video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@Lumida_Wealth🌐 Website: https://www.lumidawealth.com🐦 Twitter Follow us on https://twitter.com/LumidaWealth🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lumidawealth📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lumidawealth📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lumidawealth

Heading home from Money 2020, Ram shares what a string of conversations in San Francisco taught him: AI adoption is still under-penetrated, even in Silicon Valley, and the frontier labs now look like airlines, with falling token prices and consolidation ahead.He turns to OpenAI's latest raise and the capex obligations behind it, asks whether Coatue is the Tiger Global of this vintage, and passes on a venture investor's read on the midterms, along with why owning stocks after midterms has historically worked.Then the venture picture: talent hoarding at big tech, experience as a service, back-to-back markups in hot rounds, why it's hard being a VC, the next real breakthrough in LLMs, and why code review is not the next theme. He closes on the momentum factor and why building an agentic firm beats buying one and bolting on AI.Chapters(00:00) Money 2020 and AI adoption in Silicon Valley(01:00) Frontier labs have airline economics(01:48) Can the frontier lab unicorns reach escape velocity?(02:31) AI venture themes and the cost of being late(03:21) OpenAI's valuation and its capex obligations(04:27) Is Coatue the new Tiger Global?(05:46) A venture investor's read on the midterms(07:20) Owning stocks after the midterms(08:26) Big tech is hoarding talent(09:49) Experience as a service(11:05) Back-to-back markups in hot rounds(11:51) It's really hard being a VC(13:35) AI still needs its next big breakthrough(14:12) Code review and the dev tools that grow fastest(15:41) Take a look at the momentum factor(16:11) Build an agentic firm instead of buying oneLumida Wealth Management LLC is a registered investment adviser. SEC registration does not constitute endorsement by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and does not indicate a particular level of skill or ability.References to companies, industry themes, market statistics, prior investment activity, or case studies are included for context and should not be construed as a recommendation or endorsement.Prospective investors should conduct their own diligence and consult their own legal, tax, and financial advisers as appropriate. Connect with Us Online:Lumida NewsLumida DealsLumida WealthLumida ETF Watch the video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@Lumida_Wealth🌐 Website: https://www.lumidawealth.com🐦 Twitter Follow us on https://twitter.com/LumidaWealth🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lumidawealth📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lumidawealth📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lumidawealth

From the 42nd floor of the Transamerica building in San Francisco, after Money 2020, Ram shares what he learned comparing notes with venture investors: most teams still use AI agents for tasks, and very few have AI workers that own whole workflows.He looks at where token demand is heading and the questions around the frontier labs' spending, why the AI private markets feel expensive and crowded to him, and the choice he thinks Anthropic faces: compete with software companies, or be part of every company's stack.Then his take on CoreWeave and the neoclouds: a crowded theme in a cost of capital game, NVIDIA's interest in a multipolar cloud, how Elon's spot-price approach differs, and why venture funding is the risk to watch. He closes on public markets, defense tech, and getting every team building with AI.Chapters(00:00) Live from San Francisco after Money 2020(01:01) Agents, AI workers and AI executives(02:15) Comparing notes on AI-native organizations(03:23) Token demand and the labs' spending(04:05) Why the AI private markets feel crowded(04:54) Anthropic has to pick a side(06:23) The shift to open weight models(07:03) Ram's quick take on CoreWeave(07:52) The neocloud play is done(08:19) NVIDIA wants a multipolar cloud(09:04) Would NVIDIA let a neocloud fail?(10:58) A cost of capital game(12:48) Elon's spot-price bet(13:46) Venture funding is the risk(14:48) Earnings versus sentiment(15:40) Still early in the AI cycle(16:19) Defense tech and public markets(16:46) Get your team building with AILumida Wealth Management LLC is a registered investment adviser. SEC registration does not constitute endorsement by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and does not indicate a particular level of skill or ability.References to companies, industry themes, market statistics, prior investment activity, or case studies are included for context and should not be construed as a recommendation or endorsement.Prospective investors should conduct their own diligence and consult their own legal, tax, and financial advisers as appropriate. Connect with Us Online:Lumida NewsLumida DealsLumida WealthLumida ETF Watch the video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@Lumida_Wealth🌐 Website: https://www.lumidawealth.com🐦 Twitter Follow us on https://twitter.com/LumidaWealth🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lumidawealth📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lumidawealth📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lumidawealth

00:00 Intro00:56 Today's agenda01:20 The Tesla Roadster: a demonstration of human ingenuity01:51 "Flying cars and 140 characters": the Roadster demo02:45 Admiring the products, not the valuation03:36 Attracting talent, capital, and focus04:09 What it signals for humanoids and precision engineering05:03 Agents: hands-on with Meta's Muse05:55 $11 for tens of millions of tokens: value vs. cost06:32 Agent orchestration across models and platforms06:55 OpenRouter: a simple problem with a big outcome07:31 Why models need to check each other: blind spots and ensembles08:00 Setting up agents in Slack08:28 Big Tech does this internally: hundreds of agents09:16 A startup opportunity: just go build it09:48 Compute demand and the developer UX gap10:23 100 agents vs. 1,000 agents11:22 Data center sentiment and foreign information operations11:56 Memory and the limits to AI revenue growth13:09 New markets for coding tools: design and video editing14:14 Personal assistants and the application layer15:29 Owning the customer relationship16:21 Regulated industries: compete with slow incumbents17:13 Markets: rate-sensitive names and value vs. growth17:40 Apple and Palantir as valuation barometers18:53 Buybacks, Anthropic secondaries, and the Jensen interview20:15 Open-weight models and secondary liquidity20:42 Live demo constraints: Zoom and parallel agents21:26 Closing: the promise of AI Connect with Us Online:Lumida NewsLumida DealsLumida WealthLumida ETF Watch the video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@Lumida_Wealth🌐 Website: https://www.lumidawealth.com🐦 Twitter Follow us on https://twitter.com/LumidaWealth🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lumidawealth📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lumidawealth📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lumidawealth

00:00 Intro and agenda00:45 Bank earnings: lending growth and a strong economy01:43 The midterm-year pattern: narrow breadth, large caps lead02:52 Year-after reversals: financials, data center, defense03:22 Tax-loss harvesting and seasonality04:07 Product market fit vs. go-to-market fit05:22 The AI assistant land grab: losing money to own the customer06:08 Experience market fit: SMS, email, app, and the relationship07:19 Apple as the master of experiences08:21 Bank earnings detail: mortgage-sensitive banks lag08:42 Goldman crushes: volatility and capital markets09:43 Why Goldman's consumer banking attempts failed10:02 Go-to-market velocity is the moat10:47 Low consumer confidence, strong spending11:15 Consumer health from bank earnings: JPMorgan and Wells Fargo12:17 JPMorgan's consumer bank: 36% ROE and doubling book value14:26 Willingness and ability to pay: stories from the front desk16:19 The economics Nobel and rational expectations17:12 AI is underestimated: Meta's new model and puzzle training19:53 Google goes after video editing20:15 Nvidia, open-weight models, and sovereign AI24:36 Experience market fit as a moat25:09 What to look for in a frontier lab's S-126:16 Adjusted EBITDA: Buffett's warning27:21 Skill as a moat: Michael Jordan, Higgsfield, Whisper Flow29:31 AI in financial services: the big opportunity30:22 Wealth management vs. investment banking32:50 What investment bankers actually do34:29 The size of JPMorgan's consumer bank36:02 Close: the economy is roaring Connect with Us Online:Lumida NewsLumida DealsLumida WealthLumida ETF Watch the video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@Lumida_Wealth🌐 Website: https://www.lumidawealth.com🐦 Twitter Follow us on https://twitter.com/LumidaWealth🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lumidawealth📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lumidawealth📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lumidawealth