Perspectives / AI & the economy
Why AI Compute?
The resource powering AI is reshaping how technology and finance think about value. Hear from the people building, financing and trading its future.
“I think compute is going to be the currency of the future. I think it will be maybe the most precious commodity in the world.”
Sam Altman
CEO, OpenAI March 2024
A new commodity
The essential input behind the AI economy.
“As the backbone of the digital economy, compute is the new oil of the 21st century.”
Terry Duffy
Chairman & CEO, CME Group
“It has been clear to me for some time that compute will become the largest commodity in the world.”
Don Wilson
Founder & CEO, DRW
“The GPU market today increasingly resembles a global commodity market more than a traditional cloud market.”
Jasper Zhang
Co-Founder & CEO, Hyperbolic Labs
An emerging asset class
From processing power to productive infrastructure.
“NVIDIA has reached an important milestone. We began by building chips; today, we are helping create a new class of productive, investable infrastructure: AI factories.”
Jensen Huang
Founder & CEO, NVIDIA
“I actually believe a new asset class will be buying futures of compute.”
Laurence D. Fink
Co-founder, Chairman & CEO, BlackRock
“Modern compute has emerged as a scarce, mission-critical asset class with compelling investment characteristics.”
Jim Zelter
President, Apollo
“With demand for large-scale AI compute growing significantly as adoption scales across industries, compute is fast becoming the essential layer of infrastructure and a core pillar of the Brookfield AI infrastructure strategy.”
Bruce Flatt
CEO, Brookfield
“Compute has become a critical infrastructure asset.”
Joe Bae & Scott Nuttall
Co-CEOs, KKR
The case for compute markets
Price discovery, risk transfer and financing for compute.
“We’re excited for the new opportunity to create a market for credit backed by NVIDIA compute.”
David Solomon
Chairman & CEO, Goldman Sachs
“The market for compute … is in desperate need of a globally accepted pricing mechanism and risk management tool.”
Trabue Bland
SVP of Futures Markets, ICE
“Compute has grown into a trillion-dollar market, yet it still lacks the pricing and risk-transfer infrastructure that every other major commodity relies on.”
Kush Bavaria
Co-Founder & CEO, Ornn
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