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MiniMax should still perform well as the rise of sovereign AI makes tradeable open-source model makers more attractive than ever, and its stock has fully retraced. The maker of GLM 5.2 has risen about 500%, Elon Musk has said GLM models will likely catch up with frontier models, and Anthropic banning Fable adds to the sovereign AI push. x.comÂ
MiniMax should draw renewed attention because it will likely release another model soon. Chinese AI labs are probably quite close to each other in progress, yet their valuations are far apart, so attention should rotate back to MiniMax sooner or later. It is also further down the dilution path than Zhipu. x.comÂ
Open models can give businesses cheaper intelligence and control over their data and IP, reducing dependence on a handful of frontier labs. That case makes Meta attractive alongside other open-model companies, though independent testing and safeguards against concrete harms remain necessary. x.comÂ
Zhipu and MiniMax need money, trading at 500-1,000x price to sales, and that could eventually push Chinese AI labs toward closed source. They could privately supply their latest models to Microsoft Azure and neoclouds such as Together, Venice and OpenRouter, which would fine-tune or serve them and share revenue while the weights stay private. x.com x.com x.comÂ
Enterprise demand for sovereign AI favors Palantir's transformation model. In a two-pronged AI economy, businesses can retain their IP and use low-cost open models while frontier labs compete for the last increment of intelligence. x.comÂ
AI compute demand makes CoreWeave and Nebius probably not bad tactical buys. Anthropic had been slowing but accelerated in September, OpenAI is taking share, and open-source models still need compute. Credit issues remain, though worries feel near a peak and the stocks feel near a local bottom. x.comÂ
Semiconductor demand could withstand slower OpenAI and Anthropic growth if open-source models and post-training add more chip demand than it removes. Falling token prices need not erode per-GPU economics as cost per token falls and output per GPU rises, potentially keeping rental rates firm. The balance is unresolved; the lean is bullish, but markets may focus on the easier-to-see slowdown. Shares could chop until numbers defeat the bears, or a well-founded bear case could trigger heavy selling. … Show more
The AI trade's biggest risk is not revenue concentration in Anthropic and OpenAI but whether scaling laws keep delivering better models that unlock valuable use cases. Steve Eisman, quoted by @firesidealpha, sees an OpenAI failure as the big risk, but that is like calling Amazon's dominance e-commerce's top risk 15 years ago. If Chinese labs or open models take share, they still need semis, and US enterprises' open models will mostly be hosted domestically by Amazon and others. x.comÂ
Alibaba looks like a decent buy as its narrative improves after Chinese AI model releases. Per Bloomberg, relayed by @StockMKTNewz, Alibaba launched a preview of its flagship Qwen3.8 Max, which it describes as comparable to leading frontier models and second only to Anthropic's Fable 5. x.com x.comÂ
Open-weight models could raise demand for AI compute infrastructure if their momentum continues. Gavin Baker says open-weight tokens consume roughly the same compute as comparable frontier-model tokens, despite pressure on model-layer margins. That makes SpaceX, Nebius and IREN bullish beneficiaries only if open-weight adoption keeps gaining ground. x.comÂ
A wave of enterprise demand for open-source AI should benefit NVIDIA, Palantir and Microsoft as key partners enabling it. A vibe shift is underway away from proprietary models from Anthropic and OpenAI that capture companies' IP, toward sovereign, enterprise-owned open-source AI, a shift @friedberg discussed on the All-In podcast. Data concerns at big enterprises, where much of the spend is, drive it, and GPU rental rates are about to soar again. x.com x.comÂ
