According to the article, CoreWeave's long-term debt interest rate exceeded 16 percent last week, while Oracle's debt yield peaked above 8.5 percent, nearing junk-bond territory (8.0 percent). The author notes that about 80 percent of OpenAI and Anthropic revenue comes from 1 percent of customers, mostly unprofitable AI startups, and that AI spending showed virtually zero growth in August and September as token prices fell faster than usage rose. The author describes DeepSeek's latest model as performing near or in some cases above OpenAI and Anthropic's frontier models at a small fraction of the price, costing less than 1/10th or even 1/20th for many tasks. The author argues this undermines the revenue assumptions needed to support trillions of dollars in AI infrastructure lease commitments.
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