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▶ 8:41 · $AVGO · Kim highlights Broadcom's chip-model co-design as new AI paradigm
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How BlackRock’s Tony Kim Thinks About Investing in the AI Revolution

2026-07-24 · 5 company · 14 thematic
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tony kim

Tony Kim leads BlackRock's global technology investing across public and private markets. He has been investing in AI infrastructure since before the generative AI wave (e.g., SambaNova in 2019) and focuses on the physical layer of AI: compute, memory, power, optics, and data center redesign. He frames capital allocation around a three-year 'now' window and a 2030 frontier horizon (quantum, orbital compute, SMRs).

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“finally with uh with uh Broadcom and uh XPU and AI code design for chips... Obviously they did that with uh with a new uh jalapeno chip that recently came out. So um so those are some of the big ideas.”
—tony kim

episode shorts · 8

Tony Kim on Palantir’s Ontology

Tony Kim says traditional companies will have to radically read…

Tony Kim on the myth of semiconductors as a commodity business

Tony Kim: AI Will "Plow Through" the Compute Wall

Tony Kim on the moment compute costs went up 10,000x

Tony Kim on the real mentors who took a chance on him

Tony Kim on why AI's trillion-dollar shift to compute is forcin…

Tony Kim on why intelligence is the new compute arms race

now playing · $AVGO
$LITE···bullish· mediumtony kim
Kim focuses on optical interconnects as critical for next-gen data center design
Optical interconnects are essential to solve the power density and bandwidth constraints of AI data centers as copper reaches physical limits at higher compute densities.
$SAMBANOVAbullish· high· postony kim
Kim reveals prior investment in AI chip startup SambaNova
SambaNova's next-generation computer architecture represents an early bet on AI-specific compute infrastructure before the generative AI wave.
$AVGO···bullish· mediumtony kim
Kim highlights Broadcom's chip-model co-design as new AI paradigm
Broadcom's co-design of custom XPU chips tightly integrated with foundation model architectures represents the new path for AI compute, moving beyond generic GPUs to model-specifi…
$PLTR···bullish· mediumtony kim
Kim validates Palantir's ontology layer as blueprint for AI-native enterprise
Palantir's ontology/context layer that embodies cumulative enterprise knowledge is the exact architecture needed for AI agents to orchestrate proprietary data and token flows.
$SPCX···bullish· mediumtony kim
Kim sees orbital data centers as 2030 convergence point for AI infrastructure
Moving compute to space via orbital data centers could unlock a radical rethink of terrestrial data center constraints around power, cooling, and land, with SpaceX's launch capabi…