• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOP
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      8
      ·
      4 days ago

      I don’t have one, but this seems to be all the relevant info

      Signs of an AI bubble abound: Stock valuations have become uncomfortably rich, AI-related debt is ballooning, and a sustainable financial model for the technology has largely yet to emerge. Now Michael Burry, the investor who famously predicted the subprime-mortgage bubble bursting two decades ago, is betting that two stocks at the heart of the artificial-intelligence trade are set for a fall.

      Burry, who became widely known after Michael Lewis profiled him in his book “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine” in 2010, bought options that will pay off if shares of Nvidia and Palantir drop, according to a securities filing on Monday. The bets involve more than $900 million of Palantir shares and more than $200 million of Nvidia shares at current prices.

      • loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.ml
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        4 days ago

        Okay but why palantir? I expect them to make money hand over fist selling genocide software and machines which is not completely tangled with AI.

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOP
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          5
          ·
          4 days ago

          I’m actually curious about that one as well. I would’ve expected them to just get a bailout since the government is so invested in them. I guess if the dollar itself collapses as a result then the US could be in real trouble.

          • EmDash@lemmygrad.ml
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            5
            ·
            3 days ago

            I don’t understand investing very well, but Planatir’s price to earnings ratio is 587. Generally the P/E ratio of a company that investors think is going to grow a lot is around 30. NVidia is at 55. That probably means that Planatir is extremely overvalued.

              • loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.ml
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                1
                ·
                3 days ago

                The problem I see is that this bubble is insulated from reality because palantir is a monopoly-monopsony situation where palantir does not have a real competition and they mostly have one buyer (US govt) who are happy to funnel money into them.

                • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOP
                  link
                  fedilink
                  arrow-up
                  1
                  ·
                  3 days ago

                  Yeah that’s my understanding of the situation. For all intents and purposes it’s a government owned shop that does mass surveillance for the three letter agencies.