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News of the day
1. Alphabet's record $85B AI funding round shows huge investor demand, signaling a strong IPO market for AI companies. → Read more
2. XAI's Grok Imagine 1.5 now generates cinematic videos from images at 720p resolution, stitching clips for longer scenes. → Read more
3. Google offers website owners an opt-out for AI search features like AI Overviews, responding to CMA pressure. Many sites may still depend on Google due to limited alternatives. → Read more
4. Nvidia launches Nemotron 3 Ultra, a 550B parameter open-weight model for complex agents, offering speed and cost savings. → Read more
Our take
Hi Dotikers!
Yesterday, we watched Microsoft tinker with its own models to lean a little less on OpenAI. As a strategy, it was clean. What lingered was the awkward question: who picks up the tab?
Today, Alphabet announced an $85 billion equity raise, every dollar earmarked for AI. This isn't just the biggest deal in tech: it's the largest share issuance in history, across all sectors, surpassing the record set by Brazilian oil giant Petrobras in 2010. The first tranche, planned at $40 billion, was so heavily oversubscribed that it climbed to $45 billion. The markets were thirsty.
The detail that stings: Berkshire Hathaway put $10 billion on the table. The temple of value investing, which long kept its distance from tech, is now funding the AI race. Then again, Warren Buffett handed the reins to Greg Abel on January 1st; clearly, old habits fade fast.
The real signal lies elsewhere. Google isn't a debt-laden start-up selling a dream: $110 billion in revenue in the first quarter alone, up 22%. And yet the company that has bought back its own shares by the hundreds of billions over the past decade is suddenly doing the opposite, issuing them hand over fist. With $180 to $190 billion in capex planned this year, even the deepest cash reserves on the planet no longer cut it. Time to pass the hat.
For the rest of the pack, this is excellent news. Anthropic filed its IPO paperwork on June 1st, valued at $965 billion and eyeing the trillion. SpaceX and OpenAI are waiting in the wings. One unknown remains: nearly $8 trillion committed to AI over the next five years. Will the markets' appetite go the distance?
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