EP 297: AI Control, Compute Power, and the Fight for the Stack
The Six Five with Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman
Release Date: 03/23/2026
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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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_outlineAI 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:
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NVIDIA’s Full-Stack Push Gets Bigger: Following the GTC conference in San Jose, Pat and Dan break down how NVIDIA continues expanding beyond GPUs with Vera CPU, Dynamo, and a broader agentic AI stack designed to unify training, inference, orchestration, and enterprise-grade security.
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Microsoft, OpenAI, and Amazon Enter a New Phase of Tension: With Microsoft reportedly weighing legal action over OpenAI’s growing AWS relationship, the discussion turns to exclusivity, multi-cloud strategy, and what happens when one of AI’s most important alliances starts to crack.
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China, Compute, and the Geopolitics of AI Access: The hosts examine NVIDIA’s reported H200 restart for China and what it says about export controls, policy pressure, and the global fight over advanced AI compute.
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Meta’s $27B Infrastructure Agreement Signals the Real Race: Meta’s latest infrastructure deal reinforces a central point of this episode, demand for AI capacity is still outrunning supply, and hyperscalers are moving aggressively to lock in long-term compute.
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OpenAI’s Enterprise Push Raises Bigger Business Model Questions: As OpenAI leans harder into enterprise and eyes an eventual IPO, Pat and Dan unpack what this pivot says about monetization pressure, competitive positioning, and the need to prove a durable AI business model.
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The GPU Smuggling Story Shows How Valuable AI Hardware Has Become: A major smuggling case involving NVIDIA hardware spotlights the black market for AI chips and the growing intersection of compute, national security, and enforcement.
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The Flip: Did NVIDIA Just Change the Inference Market Again? This week’s debate centers on whether NVIDIA’s $20bn Groq Technology deal kills the standalone inference chip market, or whether it actually validates the market by proving just how strategically important specialized inference has become.
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The Fed, Micron, and Accenture Reflect a More Complicated Market: In Bulls and Bears, the hosts cover the Fed’s latest decision, Micron’s AI-driven momentum, and why Accenture’s results still ran into skepticism despite strong execution.
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Meta’s Workforce Cuts and AI Spend Reflect the New Corporate Tradeoff: The episode closes on the growing tension between rising AI investment and labor efficiency, as companies look for ways to fund massive infrastructure and token budgets while restructuring headcount.
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The Decode
NVIDIA GTC 2026: Vera Rubin Platform, Groq LPU Integration & $1T Demand Vision
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/16/nvidia-gtc-2026-ceo-jensen-huang-keynote-blackwell-vera-rubin.html
https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/2033662536227393952
https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/2033649511592284352
The Groq 3 LPU: NVIDIA's $20B Bet on Inference Economics
https://www.jonpeddie.com/news/nvidias-groq-tie-in/
Microsoft Threatens to Sue OpenAI Over $50B Amazon AWS Frontier Deal
https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-weighs-legal-action-over-50-billion-amazon-openai-cloud-deal-ft-2026-03-18/
NVIDIA Restarting H200 Chip Production for China
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/17/nvidia-huang-china-h200
https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/1999974968143257945
Meta & Nebius Sign $27B AI Infrastructure Agreement — Largest AI Compute Deal
https://nebius.com/newsroom/nebius-signs-new-ai-infrastructure-agreement-with-meta
https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/2033531056784347240
https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/2033543939526193491
OpenAI Enterprise Pivot + Q4 2026 IPO Target
https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-lays-groundwork-juggernaut-ipo-up-1-trillion-valuation-2025-10-29/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/josipamajic/2026/03/19/openais-pivot-to-enterprise-is-likely-a-race-against-anthropic-and-the-ipo-clock/
Supermicro's Legal Troubles
https://fortune.com/2026/03/19/supermicro-arrested-founder-smuggling-gpu-china/
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy41ly2d9wko
The Flip: Did NVIDIA Just Kill the Inference Chip Startup Market with the Groq Acquisition?
FOR: NVIDIA Killed It — The Inference Startup Market Is Over
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/13/a-closer-look-at-nvidias-20-billion-bet-on-tech-for-a-new-ai-chip.html
https://www.jonpeddie.com/news/nvidias-groq-tie-in/
AGAINST: Startups Survive — Hyperscalers Won't Deepen NVIDIA Dependency
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/cerebras-systems-amazon-strike-deal-offer-cerebras-ai-chips-amazons-cloud-2026-03-13/
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidia-removes-rubin-cpx-accelerators-from-its-roadmap-groq-3-lpus-take-center-stage-as-cpx-is-removed
Bulls & Bears
Market Reactions to Economic News
https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/stock-market-today-dow-sinks-750-points-sp-500-nasdaq-slide-after-fed-decision-as-powell-touts-inflation-worries-200050703.html
https://www.kiplinger.com/investing/live/march-fed-meeting-2026-live-updates-and-commentary
https://www.investopedia.com/stock-market-today-dow-jones-s-and-p-500-03182026-11928689
$MU Micron Technology — Revenue Almost Triples, Tops Estimates
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/18/micron-mu-q2-earnings-report-2026.html
https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/2034390648519024820
https://x.com/danielnewmanUV/status/2034378642613235921
$ACN Accenture — Q2 FY2026 Earnings Beat, Stock Drops ~5% on Guidance
https://www.investing.com/news/earnings/accenture-falls-despite-q2-beat-as-earnings-guidance-disappoints-4570221
https://www.zacks.com/stock/news/2886706/accenture-earnings-beat-estimates-in-q2-revenues-increase-yy
https://www.investing.com/news/transcripts/earnings-call-transcript-accenture-q2-2026-beats-forecasts-but-stock-dips-93CH-4570789
https://x.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/2033348794348142595