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Free Isn't Cheap Enough: What GPU vs TPU Headlines Leave Out | BEP Research
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Explore BEP Research’s videos and interviews with founder Ben Pouladian. Follow the discussion from chips and memory to the cost of delivering useful AI.
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NVIDIA, OpenAI and the AI Rent-or-Own Decision
Ben Pouladian joins ETN’s Luke Knight and Ronan Chambers to discuss NVIDIA, open models, cost per task, and AI’s next inflection in the lab.
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Cheaper tokens are not the whole investment case | BEP Research
A cheaper token is not the same thing as cheaper useful work.
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NVIDIA: The Chip Is Dead, Long Live the Factory
Two days after the print, and the argument Ben Pouladian keeps making is that people are still pricing NVIDIA as a company that sells chips. What it sells is a building that turns electricity into tokens, and almost every competitive question in AI right now falls out of that one distinction.
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NVIDIA's Q2: Supply Is the Cap, Not the Demand
NVIDIA guided into a ceiling it cannot lift fast enough, and the market spent the next morning calling the ceiling a slowdown. Ben Pouladian's read the day after the print: the quarter never had a demand problem, and almost nobody is pricing what is arriving behind it.
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He Led People Blindly Into the Slaughterhouse: The Nebius Short
Michael Burry told his subscribers he was short Nebius. Four sessions later the company printed 454% revenue growth and the stock closed up 34%. Ben Pouladian's read on air: "He led a lot of people blindly into the slaughterhouse."
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Google Has Become the Elder Statesman IBM of the Hyperscalers
Hours after Demis Hassabis stepped back from the DeepMind CEO seat and Jeff Dean left to found Discovery Loop, Ben Pouladian joined the European Technology Network with a four-month-old receipt: DeepMind had one talk and no booth at Google Cloud Next, and he wrote about it at the time.
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A Generation Behind: AMD's Big Helios Ramp Is Q1 2027 The Information TV
AMD grew 50% in Q2 and the stock sold off anyway. Ben Pouladian's read is that the market stopped looking at the print and started reading the ramp schedule.
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I Couldn't Find the Chip": An Open Letter to AMD's Lisa Su Ben Pouladian
AMD says its new Venice CPU beats NVIDIA's Vera by about 20% on single-core performance. Ben Pouladian of BEP Research read all 132 pages of AMD's own Advancing AI deck looking for the part behind that score and could not find it: no model number, no wattage, no price, and nothing matching it on AMD's published price list. He published an open letter to Lisa Su at 6am the morning of this interview. AMD reports Q2 the next day.
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Ben Pouladian on the Memory Crash, Bloom Energy and Open Models
Memory stocks gave back a third of a parabolic run in a month and a lot of people decided the AI trade was finished. Ben Pouladian of BEP Research reads it as leverage coming out rather than a thesis breaking, then makes the harder argument: memory was never the binding constraint anyway.
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Why Etched's Inference Chip Has a Depreciation Problem GPUs Don't
Etched came out of stealth on June 30 with $800M raised and over a billion in customer contracts, and X spent the day calling it the next NVIDIA killer. Ben Pouladian (BEP Research) joined Jack Farley and Max Wiethe on MTS Live to explain the part the hype skipped: a chip with the transformer architecture etched into fixed-function silicon is frozen at tape-out, while a GPU keeps getting faster in software over the same life. The bet Etched is making is that attention never gets displaced.
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Nebius vs CoreWeave: Debt, Equity, and Who Wins the Compute Crunch | Ben Pouladian
Ben Pouladian (BEP Research) breaks down the real difference between Nebius and CoreWeave: how Nebius rolls with equity and shorter-term contracts to capture spot pricing, while CoreWeave's debt-laden, long-term-contract model trades pricing power for stability. Plus Nebius's Yandex roots, its custom-everything build approach, the Microsoft prepay, and why the Bitcoin-miner-to-HPC crowd faces a consolidation reckoning when margin compression hits. From Ben's conversation with Jack Farley and Max
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NVIDIA's VP Tells Me Most People Don't Understand This Ben Pouladian | GTC 2026
An interview from BEP Research’s GTC 2026 coverage, hosted by Ben Pouladian.
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The Orchestration Layer Is the New Platform War — Ben Pouladian | GTC 2026 #nvidia #software
BEP commentary from GTC 2026 on the software layer coordinating AI infrastructure.
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GTC 2026: The Future of AI Infrastructure — NVIDIA, Groq & the Inference Revolution | Ben Pouladian
Ben Pouladian’s GTC 2026 overview of NVIDIA, Groq, and the inference stack. A starting point for BEP’s system-level perspective.
Narrated research · September 16, 2026
Cheaper tokens are not the whole investment case.
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We’re Using So Much AI That Computing Firepower Is Running Out
Ben Pouladian was quoted on AI compute capacity in reporting by Angel Au-Yeung and Robbie Whelan.
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