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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, radio news. You are listening to

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg day Break. We want to get right back to

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Speaker 1: the tech earning story. Microsoft and Google parent Alphabet are

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Speaker 1: both on the rise this morning, delivering results for both

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Speaker 1: companies that suggest investments in artificial intelligence and cloud computing

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Speaker 1: are paying off. Now for more on these results. Are

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Speaker 1: really pleased to be joined by Gene Munster, managing partner

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Speaker 1: at Deepwater Asset Management, and Dan Ives in our studio

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Speaker 1: this morning, the Interactive Broker Studio, senior equity research analyst

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Speaker 1: at Webbush Securities, for a roundtable discussion on these results.

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Speaker 1: It's great to have both of you back on with

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Speaker 1: us this morning. Gene, I'll start off with you. Is

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Speaker 1: the AI narrative back on track now?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely?

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Speaker 3: I think the only off track was what happened with

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Speaker 3: interest rates, and I think it kind of spooks some

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Speaker 3: tech investors. But this is a pretty unique dynamic We're

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Speaker 3: seen not only in terms of the demand side, whether

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Speaker 3: it's Nvidia or AMD, they're just breathtaking reacceleration, but also

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Speaker 3: on the demand side for the actual products, not just building,

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Speaker 3: but what we saw with Google Cloud and Azure growth

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Speaker 3: thirty one percent versus thirty percent in December twenty nine percent.

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Speaker 3: That is an acceleration by definition. The same thing is

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Speaker 3: going on with Google Cloud. We'll wait to see next

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Speaker 3: week from Amazon. But I think the big picture here

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Speaker 3: is the building blocks of AI are coming nicely into place.

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Speaker 3: We're still a year, two, three years out before the

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Speaker 3: applications really take off, but this is I think still

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Speaker 3: the first stage of a three to five year bowl

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Speaker 3: market that's going to ultimately end in a bubble. Dan.

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Speaker 1: I think I saw you on Bloomberg Television earlier this week,

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Speaker 1: after we got the disappointing results from Meta platforms. You

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Speaker 1: were saying, the knives are out between the bulls and

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Speaker 1: the bears. Are we going to be on a continued

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Speaker 1: dispersion between where some companies go with tech, like Microsoft

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Speaker 1: and Alphabet, and where companies like Meta go with it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, but when you look at Meta, they're spending

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Speaker 2: like nineteen eightys rock stars, but where they spending on AI?

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Speaker 2: And I think the AI revolution is here. I think

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Speaker 2: gene As always did a phenomenal job summarizing if you

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Speaker 2: look at these results last night, this was a drop

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Speaker 2: to mic movement for AI from Alphabet from Microsoft. This

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Speaker 2: nineteen ninety five moment is just starting, and that's why

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Speaker 2: I think the bears for tech continue to go in

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Speaker 2: their caves into hibernation mode.

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Speaker 1: We are seeing from both these companies, though Gene, that

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Speaker 1: they are expecting that they're going to have to continue

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Speaker 1: ramping up spending on this technology. Could that potentially pose

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Speaker 1: a headwind if we continue to see a ramp up

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Speaker 1: in capex.

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Speaker 3: Let's put the capex. The simple answer is investors need

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Speaker 3: to get their heads around what this is going to

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Speaker 3: cost for an investment phase and agree with Dan, this

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Speaker 3: is the right move to be making these investments. Just

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Speaker 3: to put some quick context on this, as Google's capec

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Speaker 3: screw ninety one percent the year over year in the

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Speaker 3: March quarter, the CAPEX number was twenty one percent higher

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Speaker 3: I think this is the absolute right move for these companies.

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Speaker 3: A question I had for Dan is just ultimately, well,

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Speaker 2: I look, I think Gene summarises right now with Apple

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Speaker 2: Betting against that, in my opinion, it's like betting against

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Speaker 1: Still the ways to go on both those counts though,

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Speaker 1: But looking ahead to the whatever announcement we get from

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Speaker 2: Dan look, and I think actually right now, expectations are

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Speaker 2: love to hear Gene's view. My view is in terms

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Speaker 2: They're navigating challenges. But as AI's coming to the services

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm on the same page. I think investors are

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Speaker 3: Specifically related to this agent or personalized AI or Zuckerberg

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Speaker 3: We're not going to see that in a WWDC. Agree

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Speaker 3: with Dan, that's going to be a big event for

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Speaker 1: Speaking with Gene Munster, their deep water asset management managing partner,

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Speaker 2: I mean to me, it's all about the enterprise and

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Speaker 2: that's why I think it was another drop to mic quarter,

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Speaker 1: So this sets us up as well for what we're

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Speaker 3: It's pretty high. I mean it's last quarter. They grew

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Speaker 1: Gene. I'm glad you mentioned Gemini product because there was

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Speaker 1: that stumble over how it depicts race of some people.

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Speaker 1: They had to pull back on that, Dan. Did Microsoft

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Speaker 1: And speaking of Nadella and Microsoft, you recently, Dan raised

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Speaker 1: thinking things might need to go up even further after

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Speaker 2: I think it's get out the popcorn movement. This is

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Speaker 1: Where are you on that? Gene? I mean, the growth

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Speaker 3: I think you have to ask yourself the question, do

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Speaker 1: Of course, with this kind of growth, it raises the

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Speaker 1: questions for a lot of critics about whether this technology

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Speaker 2: And I think when you look at last night, it

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Speaker 1: And we are seeing that certainly reflected in the price

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Speaker 1: this morning. Guys, both of you, thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for giving us some insights on these earnings. Dan Ives

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