• Jhex@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    It’s worse than that… what they IPO with is basically a tiny percentage of SpaceX composed solely of xAI

    The entire stock market is basically 99.9% blind speculation and 0.1% basic math, which is why it rarely makes sense

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      6 days ago

      It’s not even a surprise, this is from SpaceX s-1 document: only 7% of their estimated valuation is from Space related activities

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        5 days ago

        Is “Enterprise Applications” like shooting datacenters into space, or copilot business edition?
        I think the “Space-Enabled Solutions” part sounds more like designing satellites than the space-launch business.

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          5 days ago

          They bought Cursor for AI. Earlier this year cursor switched to pay per use model, so now every engineer is spending dozens to hundreds of AI Bucks. I don’t think Cursor is profitable on that yet, but I imagine xAI are looking to scale that model, both to turn Grok into something that earns an income, and to scale up to profit despite cost of datacenters/training.

          I’m skeptical there is really a profitable market, but it might be the most grounded of his predictions. The technology exists, the business model is successful at a small scale, so they just need to scale

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            5 days ago

            The technology exists, the business model is successful at a small scale, so they just need to scale

            could you provide details on that?

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      The entire stock market is basically 99.9% blind speculation and 0.1% basic math

      The US, England, and Japan are all returning to quantitative easing policy. So we’ve once again got too much money chasing too few investments. What a lot of naive investors see as a market bubble is recognized among the more savvy as a return to our ongoing policy of asset inflation.

      A lot of what SpaceX is selling boils down to an access point to public spending - through sale of military hardware and equipment, network access to Starlink, and R&D funds allocated to the private sector. That’s what is really driving investment. It is, in effect, a play on the future of police and military spending.

      Still wildly overvalued imho. But not “blind” speculation.

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        5 days ago

        So we’ve once again got too much money chasing too few investments.

        maybe it’s time to redistribute that too much money. lets free them from their burden.