OpenAI and Anthropic will both be public via IPO within roughly the next six to nine months, absent a black-swan event.
“Yeah, I think I think it's very high. ... What do you think the chances are they're public when we're sitting here and I'm skiing in Hokkaido?”
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The 6-9 month window (from July 2026) runs through roughly April 2027. As of August 2026, Anthropic is tracking toward an October 2026 listing (targeting the window), but OpenAI is reportedly leaning toward a 2027 IPO, which may fall outside the window. Neither has completed an IPO yet, so this remains unresolved.
SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI will compound revenue at well over 30% per year for many years going forward.
“I do think that these things can be compounders. They're going to compound at the rate they compound revenue. And I think all of these companies are going to compound revenue at well over 30% for the next many years.”
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A multi-year revenue-growth forecast ('for the next many years'); far too early to assess.
If Anthropic/OpenAI end the year with over $100B in revenue, they are on a trajectory to 3-5x that revenue again the following year (e.g., to roughly $300B+).
“If these guys end a year over a hundred billion, I think that they're on a revenue trajectory that they could 3 to 5x again next year. ... from a 100 billion to 300 billion.”
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A forecast about next year's revenue trajectory contingent on first crossing $100B in annual revenue; neither the starting condition nor the following year has been reached yet.
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Not all major Chinese AI models will go from open-source to closed-source, despite reports that Chinese regulators may restrict overseas access to top models.
“I think there are a few Chinese models that were open source that have gone closed source, but I don't think they're all. I'd be surprised, let's put it that way, if they all went closed.”
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As of August 2026, Chinese regulators have reportedly discussed restricting access to top models (Qwen, GLM, Doubao) but officials have decided nothing yet and no timeline exists, per multiple July 2026 reports. Too early to say whether all, some, or none of these models end up closed-source.
Trump accounts (child investment accounts) will reach over 100 million accounts set up within the next decade.
“We are on a trajectory now that we're going to have over a hundred million of these accounts set up over the next decade.”
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A 10-year forecast for Trump account enrollment; the program only just launched, far too early to assess.
Over the next 15 years, between $2 trillion and $4 trillion will be added to Trump accounts for American families and kids.
“If you do the math on this over the course of the next 15 years, you could have somewhere between two and four trillion dollars added to the accounts of families and kids who would have otherwise had zero.”
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A 15-year forecast for cumulative Trump account contributions; far too early to assess.
A child whose Trump account was maxed out from birth will be a millionaire by age 28, assuming historical average market returns.
“One of the numbers I saw was kind of amazing is again, it just goes back to the power of compounding is that if a Trump account had been maxed out and you have the standard market rate of return that we've had for say the past 30 years, then by age 28, that kid will be a millionaire.”
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This projection depends on a child's Trump account compounding from birth to age 28 — a multi-decade horizon that has not remotely elapsed.