Altimeter Capital CEO Brad Gerstner says whoever has the most scale, capital, compute and data will win the race to superintelligence, as SpaceX (NASDAQ:SPCX) closed at $159.31 on October 21, up 7.79%, after reporting third-quarter revenue of $14.60 billion. He says Elon Musk plans 10 GW of computing power next year, about 25% of U.S. capacity additions and roughly $400 billion of capital, with SpaceX now installing 200,000 GB300 chips a month. Gerstner sees a possible merger with Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) mainly as a way to finance that spending, and he argues that lenders value standard NVIDIA GPUs more easily than custom chips, giving NVIDIA pricing power when credit is tight. The article warns that SPCX shareholders bear spending, depreciation and execution risks at a $2.10 trillion market cap.
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| Market | US stocks |
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| Sector | Information Technology |
| Industry | Semiconductors |
| Market cap | $5.2T |
| Close on 10/21/2026 | 221.87 |
| Change that session | +2.49% |
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