Moody's Ratings (Moody's) today said that Amazon.com, Inc.'s ("Amazon") multi year strategic partnership with OpenAI has no impact on its A1 senior unsecured rating, Prime-1 commercial paper program ratings, nor its stable outlook. The multi-year strategic partnership includes Amazon making a $50 bi...
Last week, we hosted an AI Expert Call with Brian Stempeck, CEO & Co-Founder of Evertune.ai, to discuss AI Search adoption and advertising implications, including GOOGL’s execution, ChatGPT’s CPM-first ad model, and implications for the open web and ad tech.
The AI buildout is accelerating in 2026, and we see it is getting difficult to track what is being deployed, by whom, for what usage, with what financing, and on what underlying business model. As GTC approaches, we will try to address all these questions in a series of one-sliders. We follow-up today with the third analysis. Note: For our latest estimates, please see updates to the slides published earlier this week; we are refining our numbers in real time as we progress in this work.
In this report, we establish an initial framework to assess exposure to AI-enabled risk across our coverage group. Specifically, we evaluate the risk of replacement, disintermediation, or both. Our framework measures structural defensibility and business model differentiation against the difficulty
Two pieces of news last week may have slipped below the radar for many AMZN investors in light of the big announcement (and multiple preceding news reports) about OpenAI’s new financing round, AMZN’s participation in it, and the two companies’ expanded partnership. Our thoughts about those topics from late Friday are HERE. The two other news items from last week were: 1. AMZN AGI Labs head of agents R&D, David Yuan, departed 2. New AMZN AGI Head Peter DeSantis gave his first interview to the WS...
The AI buildout is accelerating in 2026, and we see it is getting difficult to track what is being deployed, by whom, for what usage, with what financing, and the underlying or prospective business model. As GTC approaches, we will try to address all these questions in a series of one-sliders. We follow-up today with the second analysis.
The AI buildout is accelerating in 2026, and we see it is getting difficult to track what is being deployed, by whom, for what usage, with what financing, and the underlying or prospective business model. As GTC approaches, we will try to address all these questions in a series of one-sliders. We kick things off with the baseline: Who builds what, for whom? Enjoy, and stay tuned for the rest of the series.
Rapidus: Reportedly secures ¥167.6B ($1.1B) private funding; 60 clients reportedly in talks with 10 receiving initial quotesView: Japan’s Rapidus has reportedly secured these private funds, which add to the ¥100B in government investment in Rapidus this year.The Japanese startup is targeting mass p
OpenAI and AWS have agreed to expand their existing $38B agreement by $100B over eight years, including a commitment to “consume 2 gigawatts of Trainium capacity”. AMZN will be making a $50B investment in OpenAI as one of multiple investors, at a $730B pre-money valuation.
Report Overview: Our analysis includes total web visits (desktop and mobile) to U.S. and international web domains, mobile app monthly active users (MAUs), daily active users (DAUs), and total time spent (where applicable). Throughout the report, we display Y/Y changes across each of these key metr
And, the only downside to the deal in our view are the economics with GMs below corporate average and warrants being granted to Meta (similar to the OpenAI deal) though we'd also note that the warrant grants are predicated in part on AMD's stock performance (as well as Meta purchases).China, Foundry
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