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Speaker 2: I think there's a lot of news in the technology

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Speaker 2: side of the business on open ai. Open ai has

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Speaker 2: agreed to rent a massive amount of computing power from

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Speaker 2: Oracle data centers as part of its Stargate initiative, totally

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Speaker 2: about four point five gigawats. I don't know what a

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Speaker 2: gigawatt is, but it sounds big of data center power

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Speaker 2: in the US. So I have no idea what that means.

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Speaker 2: And open ai is not. I mean, Bloomberg ais give

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Speaker 2: me some stuff, but I need to go to the

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Speaker 2: source on a Ragrana technology analysts for Bloomberg Intelligence on

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Speaker 2: a rocket. It seems like we're seeing a lot of

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Speaker 2: deals getting inked here in the tech space. This open

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Speaker 2: this ai story is still moving along at a rate pace.

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Speaker 2: Talk to us about what's going on at Oracle.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so this is something we discussed a few days

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Speaker 3: ago when Oracle was up you know, sharply at that point.

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Speaker 3: They didn't disclose the name of the client, but that

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Speaker 3: seems like, you know, as we said, it is open Ai.

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Speaker 3: This is part of the Stargate project that came out

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Speaker 3: January or the middle of the end of jan This

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Speaker 3: ai is basically buying computing capacity from Oracle with the

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Speaker 4: What is your sense of this deal, because we have

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Speaker 4: credit ratings SMP saying that Oracle clouds infrastructure and buildings

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's going to be much higher.

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Speaker 3: In fact, we think the company gave guidance of about

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Speaker 3: It's going to be you know, north of that over

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Speaker 3: they were only spending about five six billion dollars a year.

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Speaker 3: But frankly speaking, if you really want to play in

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Speaker 5: Over the next few years.

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Speaker 2: Oracle will develop multiple data centers across the US with partners,

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Speaker 5: On a run? Yeah, just about five years ago.

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Speaker 3: To be honest, they were pretty much absent in this

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Speaker 3: That because they have a very incredible profitable, you know,

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Speaker 4: What about Microsoft? Lots of news here too. Their gaming

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Speaker 3: And I think that is frankly speaking, that's not good

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Speaker 2: Anrag, I know you and Mandeep and your technology team

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Speaker 2: have done deep, deep dives into AI, and folks, there's

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Speaker 2: lots of great Bloomberg intelligence research out there on the

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Speaker 2: terminal and so check it out. But there's some serious

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Speaker 2: and deep dive work, some the best on Wall Street.

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Speaker 2: If you want to learn about what AI is, check

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Speaker 2: that out. I'll tell you what what I say, which

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Speaker 2: I don't hear many people talking about this will replace people.

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Speaker 5: So we really have to see, you know, how.

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Speaker 2: One of the stories I really enjoyed the most on

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Speaker 4: Can you talk about how this has the potential to

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Speaker 2: my hallway. And what I did notice is JP Morgan

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Speaker 5: That is beautiful.

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Speaker 2: The bond market's certainly taking notice here. I got the

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Speaker 2: Ira Jersey cares. Ira Jersey, chief US interest rate Strategies.

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Speaker 2: Bloomberg Intelligence esconced in that Princeton office. I keep ting,

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Speaker 8: Well, I think in particular, people were concentrating on that

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Speaker 2: Interesting all right, folks, Ira Jersey we know him as

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Speaker 2: Where did that come from?

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Speaker 2: what you need to know on the interest rate space.

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Speaker 2: It gives you what you need to know about global soccer.

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Speaker 2: He tells me what I need to pay attention to

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Speaker 2: him when I don't, So we appreciate that. Irid Jersey,

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