SemiAnalysis：前沿实验室低估了自身需求

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SemiAnalysis 发文称，即便是最了解模型运作方式的前沿实验室，也没预料到自己能如此盈利、服务如此多用户、增长如此之快。文中引用指出，这些实验室不得不以高溢价签下大合同，只为尽快拿到 GPU 以服务用户；作者认为这并非 AI 快速起飞，而是这些实验室的收入和盈利在快速起飞。

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Even the frontier labs underestimated their own demand.

“What gets confusing to me is how nobody forecast this.”

“Even the frontier labs, who really understand how these models work, did not expect to be this profitable, to serve this many users and to grow this fast.”

“They had to do crazy things and sign big contracts at very high premiums just to get access to GPUs tomorrow to serve their users.”

“I don’t view this as an AI fast takeoff. It seems to be a revenue and profitability fast takeoff for a lot of these labs.”