The Six Five Pod | EP 284: From TPUs to Trillion-Dollar Pay: Google's Ironwood Launch, AMD, Qualcomm, AWS Deal and the Race for AI Compute
The Six Five with Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman
Release Date: 11/11/2025
The Six Five with Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman
Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman dig into the week's biggest moves in enterprise AI: Anthropic and OpenAI launching PE-backed enterprise JVs on the same day, Anthropic filling its compute gap with SpaceX's Colossus, Cerebris filing for a $3.5 billion IPO, NVIDIA going deep on co-packaged optics with Corning, and a full IBM Think and ServiceNow recap. Plus, for The Flip, hosts debate whether Anthropic, at $1.2 trillion, is the most important company in enterprise tech. The handpicked topics for this week are: 1. Anthropic and OpenAI Launch PE-Backed Enterprise JVs on the Same Day — Both...
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This week: four hyperscalers reported earnings on the same day, NVIDIA briefly crossed $5 trillion in market cap, OpenAI broke Azure exclusivity, and Google put $40 billion into Anthropic. Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman call it the most consequential week in AI infrastructure history and suggest the bull thesis just got its vote of confidence. The handpicked topics for this week are: OpenAI Breaks Azure Exclusivity — Both Patrick and Daniel were in the room for the original OpenAI-Microsoft announcement, and they both knew it wasn't the end of the story, it was just the beginning. The...
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Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman break down a massive week in enterprise tech, from Google Cloud Next's full-stack AI push and Amazon's $100 billion Anthropic commitment, to Apple's leadership transition and Intel's long-awaited foundry validation courtesy of Elon Musk. The handpicked topics for this week are: Google Cloud Next 2026: Full-Stack AI and New TPUs — Google Cloud Next has cemented itself as the second-biggest AI event on the calendar, with Thomas Kurian declaring the proof-of-concept era over and enterprises now in full production mode with agents. Google unveiled two...
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AI is now an execution race defined by infrastructure. Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman break down how compute shortages, energy constraints, and security risks are reshaping the race from building models to actually running them at scale. From chip supply and hyperscaler strategy to AI-native security and the growing case for regulation, this episode maps the pressure points defining what it really takes to turn AI investment into production reality. Handpicked Topics Include: Meta, Broadcom, and the Reality of the Compute Shortage — Meta’s multi-year MTIA partnership with Broadcom...
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Episode 300 marks a milestone moment for The Six Five Pod as AI shifts from innovation to consequence. This week, Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman unpack the risks of frontier models, the growing complexity of AI deployment, and the market signals that reveal where tech is heading next. The handpicked topics for this week are: The Frontier Model Arms Race: Anthropic Mythos + OpenAI Spud — Frontier models are advancing beyond controlled testing environments, exposing real-world vulnerabilities across operating systems and enterprise infrastructure. The hosts examine how rapidly increasing...
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OpenAI locks in the largest private funding round in history, Google disrupts memory economics with a major efficiency breakthrough, and NVIDIA continues to consolidate control over AI infrastructure. This week, Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman unpack the clear shift from model competition to full-stack execution. 🔹 OpenAI closes a record $122B funding round: AI is being reframed as global infrastructure, but the raise puts new scrutiny on capital efficiency, burn rate, and long-term sustainability (The Decode) 🔹 Google’s TurboQuant breakthrough: A major memory compression advance...
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Arm moves closer to owning the silicon layer, OpenAI sharpens its enterprise strategy, and a wave of geopolitical and market pressures exposes what is really driving the AI race. Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman unpack how compute constraints, capital intensity, and supply chain risk are starting to dictate who can scale, who can compete, and who gets left behind as the industry shifts from experimentation to execution. The handpicked topics for this week are: Arm Unveils AGI CPU — First-Ever In-House Chip, Co-Developed with Meta: Arm steps into direct silicon production with its...
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AI is becoming a scale and control business. On Episode 297 of The Six Five Pod, Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman examine the companies building the infrastructure, forming the alliances, and making the moves that will define who wins and who gets squeezed out. Control is shifting across compute, models, infrastructure, and enterprise distribution as NVIDIA, Microsoft, OpenAI, Meta, and others push to control the next phase of the AI market. The handpicked topics for this week are: NVIDIA’s Full-Stack Push Gets Bigger: Following the GTC conference in San Jose, Pat and Dan break down how...
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AI is reshaping how software gets built, how infrastructure gets deployed, and how platforms compete for relevance. On Episode 296, Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman break down GTC expectations, Microsoft’s Anthropic-powered Copilot shift, Adobe’s leadership transition, Apple’s AI strategy, and the infrastructure debates shaping the next phase of enterprise AI. The handpicked topics for this week are: GTC and the Shift to Heterogeneous Compute: NVIDIA heads into GTC with growing pressure to articulate a broader heterogeneous compute strategy. Pat & Dan discuss CPUs, GPUs,...
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AI development is getting easier, but building production-ready systems remains a challenge. From vibe coding experiments at Mobile World Congress to shifts in AI silicon, networking infrastructure, and the evolving app economy, Patrick Moorhead & Daniel Newman explore what’s actually changing inside enterprise technology on this episode of The Six Five Pod. The handpicked topics for this week are: MWC Recap and the Rise of “Vibe Coding”: Experiments at Mobile World Congress highlighted how AI interfaces are lowering the barrier to building applications. Tools like Perplexity...
info_outlineOn this episode of The Six Five Pod, hosts Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman discuss the latest tech news stories that made headlines. This week’s handpicked topics include:
OpenAI signs a 7-year, $38B cloud deal with AWS to secure massive GPU capacity and diversify beyond Microsoft. Announced Nov 3 (Pat)
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https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1985352179444863072?s=20
U.S. to block Nvidia’s scaled-down AI chips to China; Nvidia CEO says there are “no active discussions” to sell Blackwell there. Nov 7. (Dan)
https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1986380431260815544?s=20
https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1985690392239513969?s=20
Microsoft’s UAE Nvidia AI chip deal: Microsoft secured U.S. government approval to ship 60,000
Nvidia AI chips to the UAE, with a broader $9.7 billion contract for AI cloud services. (Dan)
Google makes Ironwood TPUs generally available and adds new Axion Arm VMs for inference-heavy workloads. Announced Nov 6 (Pat)
https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1986854566835748959?s=20
Kimi 2 Thinking costs $4.6M Dan
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Cheap MacBook (pat)
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Bulls & Bears
Arm Earnings
https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1986771536960008301
https://investors.arm.com/static-files/bde7f15e-4bc8-4524-a0e9-e016889b520d
https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1986203347439824919
AMD Earnings
https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1985979219352908272
https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1985822986063266013
https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1985835687309165063
https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1985895752372289986
Qualcomm Earnings
https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1986764581293977813
https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1986185406744871045
Coherent Earnings
https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1986774118985794034
https://www.coherent.com/news/press-releases/first-quarter-fiscal-year-2026-results
https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1986205975171190977
Lattice Semiconductor Earnings
https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1985983349916143977
https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1985475655241232529