Rick Sherlund (Founder) 00:00.137
yeah so a couple thoughts you know AI has been a novelty for consumers and with chats and a lot of knowledge workers have gotten big benefit out of it because they're very good at researching and summarizing content for for for knowledge workers but after three years on the
Rick Sherlund (Founder) 00:17.897
market now it's finally becoming part of business process and and workflows how a company actually conducts business so this involves the use of agents or agentics and how they collaborate and do complex workflows as a result the amount of inference that's going to be required
Rick Sherlund (Founder) 00:36.177
is going to explode you know a single call to a chatbot means it's one call to the LLM to give you the answer to to for inference if it's a workflow related question particularly for complex workflows it could be ten or fifty trips back to the LLM so LLMS are going to really be
Rick Sherlund (Founder) 00:56.377
stressed by enterprise systems we've got reasoning we're asking these models to do now they're not built for reasoning so they just kind of throw a lot of weight into this GPU saying give me a hundred answers and i'll pick the best lawn so i think for all these reasons you know
Rick Sherlund (Founder) 01:14.057
the the inference is going to be the heartbeat of american well global business it's how it runs so that's going to create enormous demand for data centers so the data center trade you know i'm not worried about it we're going to have so much more demand than we have supply of
Rick Sherlund (Founder) 01:31.777
data centers given all the constraints on data centers the capital the GP us memory etcetera so the question would be and i think this has been forefront in people 's minds is well is the business model there to support the financial commitments that are being made and i think
Rick Sherlund (Founder) 01:49.937
people look to the LLM market and this the leadership in LM changes over more times than a you know a close match basketball game you know the score just keeps going back and forth so the chinese have open source models you've got meta and and nvidia with open source models so
Rick Sherlund (Founder) 02:07.817
the LLM business is going to be a very competitive business but i don't see the leaders in that market saying we're going to make all our money on LLMS what they're going to do is what microsoft did with windows and go up the stack they're going to do what oracle did from the
Rick Sherlund (Founder) 02:22.777
database and move up the stack