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▶ 17:39 · $BABA · Alibaba commoditizes AI models to neutralize platform threats
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BG2 Pod

China Open-Source, Compute Arms Race, Reordering Global Trade | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner

2025-07-31 · 2 company · 0 thematic
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bill gurley

General partner at Benchmark and one of Silicon Valley's best-known venture investors. His investments have included Uber, Zillow and Stitch Fix.

brad gerstner

Founder and CEO of Altimeter Capital, a technology investment firm, and host of the BG2 podcast. Known for concentrated growth bets and widely-read public memos on big tech.

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“if you're not confident you're going to win on offense, you want to play defense. And so for any large tech company, commoditizing a potential threat is actually quite valuable... Alibaba just wants to make sure there's no ByteDance equiva…”
—bill gurley
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