Broadcom CEO Hock Tan: Many AI Investors Act Like Casino Gamblers
Hock Tan warns that investors backing frontier AI lack understanding of what they're betting on, while enterprises waste money experimenting without clear returns.
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What to know
- Broadcom CEO Hock Tan criticized many AI investors as gamblers lacking understanding of the technology they fund, particularly in frontier large language models.
- Tan warned enterprises are burning money on AI experimentation without learning outcomes, comparing it to children wasting arcade tokens.
- While acknowledging OpenAI's $50 billion annualized revenue as a sign of viability, Tan noted durable profitability is still distant due to high training costs.
- Tan warned capital constraints could become the next bottleneck for AI industry growth, with Intel's CEO also flagging 2–3 years of tight hardware supply ahead.
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Intel CEO warns hardware supply will remain tight for 2–3 years
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, speaking on the same panel, said the rapid pace of AI buildout will keep hardware in short supply through 2028–2029, with memory chips potentially among the first segments to see cooling demand.
“A lot of investors have no clue what they are investing in. They set very extreme expectations only to find out that it's almost like they are in a casino.”
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BROADCOM CEO: ".. A lot of investors have no clue what they are investing in." They “set very extreme expectations only to find out that it’s almost like they are in a casino.” @bloomberg.com $AVGO
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Broadcom, $AVGO, CEO Hock Tan says some AI investors are betting like they’re in a casino. “A lot of investors have no clue what they are investing in,” Tan said.
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Great observation about the ease of working with structured data, but you are wrong. they pivoted almost completely to software development They did not. AI originated from code autocomplete stuff. It's good/best at that because that's where it started. They did not pivot to it. That's what coders who write AI tools use, so that's naturally…
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Tan warns capital shortage could become next industry constraint
Broadcom's CEO cautioned that insufficient capital could emerge as the next bottleneck for AI industry growth, citing Firmus Grid's withdrawal of a planned $5.5 billion IPO the previous week.
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first by Investing.com News, 2d ago · also Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, Benzinga, Quartz, NY Post, New York Post +1
6 more headlines
- Broadcom CEO Likens Many AI Investors to Casino Gamblers Bloomberg.com · 2d ago
- Broadcom CEO Says Many AI Investors Have ‘No Clue,’ Likens Boom to a Casino Benzinga · 2d ago
- Broadcom's CEO compared many AI investors to casino gamblers Quartz · 2d ago
- Broadcom CEO Hock Tan criticizes speculative AI investing, comparing uninformed investors to casino gamblers and questioning the long-term economics of AI labs Bloomberg · 2d ago
- Broadcom CEO compares AI investors to gamblers: ‘They are in a casino’ NY Post · 2d ago
- Broadcom’s Hock Tan compares many AI investors to casino gamblers The Next Web · 2d ago
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first by CNBC, 2d ago
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Tan cites OpenAI revenue milestone but warns profitability remains distant — Tan acknowledged OpenAI's annualized revenue reaching $50 billion in September as a sign of viable commercial potential, while noting the company continues losing money due to high training costs.
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Tan warns enterprises waste money on AI without clear returns — Tan compared enterprise AI experimentation to children squandering arcade tokens, suggesting businesses are spending productively on AI without learning outcomes.
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Hock Tan compares AI investors to casino gamblers at Singapore event
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan spoke at an event in Singapore, criticizing many AI investors for approaching the sector like gamblers with little understanding of what they're betting on, particularly regarding frontier large language models.
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first by Yahoo Finance, 2d ago · also MarketWatch, Dow Jones Newswires
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- Was Broadcom CEO bullish or bearish on AI? ‘Gamblers’ comment creates storm MarketWatch · 1d ago
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first by Motley Fool, 2d ago · also CNBC
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first by Inc, 2d ago · also Quartz, Investor's Business Daily
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- Intel and Broadcom CEOs warn capital may bottleneck AI growth Quartz · 2d ago
- Intel and Broadcom CEOs warned that capital could be the biggest constraint on AI growth Quartz · 2d ago
- Chip Stocks Fall As Broadcom, Intel CEOs Warn About AI Funding Investor's Business Daily · 2d ago
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first by Financial Times, 2d ago · also The Guardian, Forbes
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- Chip stocks slide after Broadcom boss likens AI investing to ‘casino’ Guardian Tech · 1d ago
- AI Chip Stocks Slide Amid China Advances And CEO’s ‘Casino’ Warnings Forbes Business · 1d ago
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first by Bloomberg Tech, 2d ago · also Bloomberg
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first by Reuters, 3d ago · also Seeking Alpha
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- Broadcom CEO says capital will be biggest constraint for AI development: report Seeking Alpha · 2d ago
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What people are saying 12 voices from 3 sites · best of 16 · verbatim
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And micron makes even more money. Doesn’t change that Avgo is a bit ridiculously priced
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Won’t China eventually take over as they will have lax regulations in doing the studies ?
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wait, and wall street has any idea? look at their saaspocalypse or any dumb move, they are the same dumb as this sub
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The proofs are all built on existing human work and done by mathematicians using LLMs extrapolated and tested our billions of times. They are not novel solutions the LLMs figured out on their own.
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Open AI would not have missed their IPO in a market where the AI hype is off the charts if they had anything. Anthropic will do the same thing and then it all crashes under the weight of billions and billions of debt.
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I honestly can't wait to see all the crying in the casino. They deserve everything they get. Same thing happens every single time.
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AI can't be held legally liable for damages, so in terms of quality assurance and regulatory compliance it is useless. This is exactly why I roll my eyes when people say AI will replace lawyers. AI can't be sued for malpractice, etc. Until and unless an AI company fully stands behind its product and indemnifies customers for the same things an…
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An attempt at a joke I think. Or, could just be stupid. Who can tell these days?
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You missed math. If most of these proofs OpenAI released turn out to be correct, they matched years worth of output from all human mathematicians. There were multiple papers that are Fields Medal worthy if true. I also would be surprised if it doesn't generalize at all to some of the other sciences given the similarities.
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It's that told ya so saga as Intel, Broadcom CEOs warn capital crunch could become AI's biggest bottleneck. Cost of money will up the cost of chips, there are no ifs or buts about it. @dvellante @furrier @MarshaCollier @anissagardizy8 @dee_bosa
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Well well well. Well. Bloomberg: Broadcom CEO Likens Many AI Investors to Casino Gamblers and more... Broadcom's Tan said AI model developers need to find customers that can generate returns from deploying the technology, rather than relying on users who are now