the most vertically integrated player always wins.

the point i want to make here is, in lieu of all these ai supercycle we are seeing, its analogous to $HYPE's success with its vertical intregration across the finance stack

also, i believe we will see the winner for the AI super cycle being the one that wins on verticalization of the ai sector stack

the ai stack consist of 3 components: apps, infra, semi

we will see history rhymes in tech supercycles

internet's biggest winner is $GOOG ~$3 trillion. near-monopoly in search. owns the crawlers, the index, the ads, the browser, the OS on half of mobile. deeply vertically integrated.

mobile's biggest winner: $APPL ~$2.5 trillion. owns the chip (M-series, A-series), the OS, the hardware, the app store, the services layer. the most vertically integrated company in history.

social's biggest winner: $META ~$2 trillion. dominant but lost roughly $1 trillion, some argue, by not owning the hardware layer. had to buy Oculus to catch up. less integrated.

cloud's winner: nobody. $AMZN, Azure, GCP share it as an oligopoly. the least vertically integrated supercycle produced the least concentrated outcome.

we have not see an AI winner yet and that AI's winner will be whoever is most vertically integrated.

that's why its the race season to own semis + infra + model + application simultaneously

Google owns TPUs, GCP, Gemini.
Microsoft owns Azure, has deep OpenAI integration.
Amazon owns custom silicon, AWS, Bedrock.
Meta owns MTIA, Llama, the distribution.

@OpenAI is the outlier, they own the model and the application but rent the infrastructure.

That's the Microsoft relationship. Whether that's a strategic advantage (focus) or a structural weakness (dependency) is the defining question of the next five years.

i believe $HYPE too will win similarly to how these hyperscalers win $GOOG $APPL $META $NDVA in trillions in market cap and its verticalization.

history says so. bet accordingly.

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