#ㄴIFㅌ 🇰🇷, 🇺🇸 Born in Seoul, Ohio-raised. Founder @__BLUE__ROOM__, Partner, ID EST, Chair, Economic Club of Colorado, Trustee Emeritus, MCA Denver

Denver, CO
Joined May 2009
Riding around #Hanoi on motorbike. Vietnam is extending e-visas for up to 90 days making it easier for foreigners to do business and travel for leisure. @__BLUE__ROOM__ sees opportunity to invest in the amazing human capital of this dynamic country.
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$NVDA CEO Jensen Huang said AI demand continues to accelerate “month by month” and that he’s asked $TSM for more wafer supply. Speaking in Taiwan, he emphasized TSMC’s importance to Nvidia’s success, saying, “No TSMC, no Nvidia.”
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I would like to clarify a few things. First, the obvious one: we do not have or want government guarantees for OpenAI datacenters. We believe that governments should not pick winners or losers, and that taxpayers should not bail out companies that make bad business decisions or otherwise lose in the market. If one company fails, other companies will do good work. What we do think might make sense is governments building (and owning) their own AI infrastructure, but then the upside of that should flow to the government as well. We can imagine a world where governments decide to offtake a lot of computing power and get to decide how to use it, and it may make sense to provide lower cost of capital to do so. Building a strategic national reserve of computing power makes a lot of sense. But this should be for the government’s benefit, not the benefit of private companies. The one area where we have discussed loan guarantees is as part of supporting the buildout of semiconductor fabs in the US, where we and other companies have responded to the government’s call and where we would be happy to help (though we did not formally apply). The basic idea there has been ensuring that the sourcing of the chip supply chain is as American as possible in order to bring jobs and industrialization back to the US, and to enhance the strategic position of the US with an independent supply chain, for the benefit of all American companies. This is of course different from governments guaranteeing private-benefit datacenter buildouts. There are at least 3 “questions behind the question” here that are understandably causing concern. First, “How is OpenAI going to pay for all this infrastructure it is signing up for?” We expect to end this year above $20 billion in annualized revenue run rate and grow to hundreds of billion by 2030. We are looking at commitments of about $1.4 trillion over the next 8 years. Obviously this requires continued revenue growth, and each doubling is a lot of work! But we are feeling good about our prospects there; we are quite excited about our upcoming enterprise offering for example, and there are categories like new consumer devices and robotics that we also expect to be very significant. But there are also new categories we have a hard time putting specifics on like AI that can do scientific discovery, which we will touch on later. We are also looking at ways to more directly sell compute capacity to other companies (and people); we are pretty sure the world is going to need a lot of “AI cloud”, and we are excited to offer this. We may also raise more equity or debt capital in the future. But everything we currently see suggests that the world is going to need a great deal more computing power than what we are already planning for. Second, “Is OpenAI trying to become too big to fail, and should the government pick winners and losers?” Our answer on this is an unequivocal no. If we screw up and can’t fix it, we should fail, and other companies will continue on doing good work and servicing customers. That’s how capitalism works and the ecosystem and economy would be fine. We plan to be a wildly successful company, but if we get it wrong, that’s on us. Our CFO talked about government financing yesterday, and then later clarified her point underscoring that she could have phrased things more clearly. As mentioned above, we think that the US government should have a national strategy for its own AI infrastructure. Tyler Cowen asked me a few weeks ago about the federal government becoming the insurer of last resort for AI, in the sense of risks (like nuclear power) not about overbuild. I said “I do think the government ends up as the insurer of last resort, but I think I mean that in a different way than you mean that, and I don’t expect them to actually be writing the policies in the way that maybe they do for nuclear”. Again, this was in a totally different context than datacenter buildout, and not about bailing out a company. What we were talking about is something going catastrophically wrong—say, a rogue actor using an AI to coordinate a large-scale cyberattack that disrupts critical infrastructure—and how intentional misuse of AI could cause harm at a scale that only the government could deal with. I do not think the government should be writing insurance policies for AI companies. Third, “Why do you need to spend so much now, instead of growing more slowly?”. We are trying to build the infrastructure for a future economy powered by AI, and given everything we see on the horizon in our research program, this is the time to invest to be really scaling up our technology. Massive infrastructure projects take quite awhile to build, so we have to start now. Based on the trends we are seeing of how people are using AI and how much of it they would like to use, we believe the risk to OpenAI of not having enough computing power is more significant and more likely than the risk of having too much. Even today, we and others have to rate limit our products and not offer new features and models because we face such a severe compute constraint. In a world where AI can make important scientific breakthroughs but at the cost of tremendous amounts of computing power, we want to be ready to meet that moment. And we no longer think it’s in the distant future. Our mission requires us to do what we can to not wait many more years to apply AI to hard problems, like contributing to curing deadly diseases, and to bring the benefits of AGI to people as soon as possible. Also, we want a world of abundant and cheap AI. We expect massive demand for this technology, and for it to improve people’s lives in many ways. It is a great privilege to get to be in the arena, and to have the conviction to take a run at building infrastructure at such scale for something so important. This is the bet we are making, and given our vantage point, we feel good about it. But we of course could be wrong, and the market—not the government—will deal with it if we are.
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Deployment of all payloads confirmed
Precision BioSciences $DTIL @PrecisionBioSci targeting #DMD Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Discussion led by Dr. Cassie Gorsuch. Slide 8
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Precision BioSciences $DTIL @PrecisionBioSci targeting #DMD Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Discussion led by Dr. Cassie Gorsuch. Slide 4
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Now playing LIVE on YouTube. Precision BioSciences $DTIL @PrecisionBioSci targeting #DMD Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Discussion led by star Dr. Cassie Gorsuch. piped.video/live/7l_ktz8JIEM
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Drugs that serve key national priorities ➡️ front of the line at @US_FDA.
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$DTIL ECUR-506 achieved a 37% reduction in PCSK9 and sustained metabolic correction 18mo post-dose in Baby#1. Given infant liver turnover that clears non-integrated DNA, this constitutes compelling POC for stable OTC gene insertion and expression --- even without a biopsy.
$DTIL "We know based on the fact that this baby is living a normal life that we have achieved gene insertion and that therapeutic effect is coming from an inserted copy of that healthy gene." - Cassie Gorsuch, CSO #DTIL #eiCURE #OTCHOPE #OTC
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First in WAR, First in PEACE. There's no Navy even close. 🇺🇸
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This satellite imagery of Melissa approaching Jamaica is jaw-dropping and sobering. satlib.cira.colostate.edu/ev…
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CHINA'S PRESIDENT XI before high-stakes meeting with President Trump: "I always believed that China's development goes hand-in-hand with your vision to make America great again. Our two countries are fully able to help each other succeed and prosper together."
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$DTIL "We know based on the fact that this baby is living a normal life that we have achieved gene insertion and that therapeutic effect is coming from an inserted copy of that healthy gene." - Cassie Gorsuch, CSO #DTIL #eiCURE #OTCHOPE #OTC
FOMC decision and press conference in three hours. I’m such a nerd for Fed and monetary policy, that I can’t wait! $NVDA raised their near term outlook for Blackwell by 20% which has that stock at 10% of the market with an astounding $5 trillion dollar market cap. Numbers are so big there that “bubble” fears keep their multiple at 30x calendar 2026. The stock grows with earnings, which is the concentrated distillation of A.I. profits as customers downstream deploy cutting edge GPU. Listening to Jen-Hsun keynote address at GTC Washington yesterday, the TAM of Intelligence seems boundless. At the complete opposite end of the market spectrum is our company, @PrecisionBioSci 🔦 which is actually starting to break out in the immediate aftermath of a safety setback at $NTLA, a company used CRISPR-based technology. I’m excited for folks to learn about Precision’s incredible science around #ICreI and how its unique protein structural properties allow #ARCUS to be the leading gene editor for human therapeutics. TAM of #ㄴIFㅌ Clinical Trials: NCT06255782 NCT06680232 NCT03666000 NCT06680037 Thank you X community for keeping us informed about our investment in the company. Let’s go!
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Precision BioSciences was proud to join leaders from across the genetic medicines field at Chardan’s 9th Annual Genetic Medicines Conference in New York City. Connecting with experts, investors, and innovators in this space is vital as we advance our mission to deliver transformative gene editing therapies. Thank you to Chardan for creating a forum for meaningful discussion on the future of genetic medicines and to everyone who engaged with our team during the event. Listen to the full webcast, loom.ly/oU-4mpI #GeneEditing #CGMC2025 $DTIL
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Daily $DTIL detail. On August 15, 2023, Precision BioSciences licensed #azercel to @TeamImugene, an Australian pre-clinical R&D company led by a talented biopharma executive Dr. Leslie Chong. Imugene paid $8 million in cash and $13 million note. They saw a global CAR T relapse pool of 18,000 patients per year, and a $2.75 billion annual opportunity. In Phase 1b, Imugene added IL-2 in combination with azercel to boost ORR to 81% (13/16) patient with durability of response. 🔗x.com/TeamImugene/status/196… #NCT03666000: Dose-expansion study of safety of azercel (PBCAR0191) in Patients with R/R NHL and R/R B-cell ALL __________ Fast Track: March 2025. FDA Type B Meeting is scheduled for Q4 2025 to discuss pivotal trial design. @PrecisionBioSci Milestone payments and tiered royalties. Commercialization NPV of DLBCL could be $1 billion. Volume today = 275,900
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