Dylan Patel on

gpu supply

10 quotes · Aug 2023 – Sep 2025

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  1. Patel says OpenAI's Oracle deal reaches over $90 billion annually within a few years from $300 billion total commitment.

    “OpenAI, which signed a $300,000,000,000 plus deal with with Oracle, will actually be able to pay $300,000,000,000, right, across raising capital and revenue?”

    24:28 · a16z · 22 Sep 2025 · permalink
  2. Patel compares GPU purchasing process to buying drugs, calling people to ask about availability and pricing.

    “my opinion on how you buy GPUs is that it's like buying cocaine or any other drug. This is described to me, not me.”

    1:35:36 · a16z · 22 Sep 2025 · permalink
  3. Patel compares buying GPUs to buying cocaine with informal texts asking for availability and pricing.

    “You call up a couple people. You text a couple people. You ask, yo. How much you got? What's the price? It's like Exactly. This is fucking like, buy drugs. Like oh, sorry. Sorry.”

    1:35:48 · a16z · 22 Sep 2025 · permalink
  4. Patel reveals each country is capped at 50,000 GPUs for four years while NVIDIA makes 6 million annually.

    “There is there is one obvious loophole, which is well, there's, like, strict caps. Right? Like, each country can only buy 50,000 GPUs for the next four years.”

    13:24 · Unsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron · 21 Jan 2025 · permalink
  5. Patel identifies the 50,000 GPU cap per country as trivial compared to NVIDIA's six million unit annual production.

    “Like, each country can only buy 50,000 GPUs for the next four years. And it's like, that's kinda nothing when NVIDIA's making, you know, 6,000,000 plus this year.”

    13:29 · Unsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron · 21 Jan 2025 · permalink
  6. Patel calculates next-generation clusters deliver 15x more compute through five times more GPUs and 3x performance gains.

    “So you got you have five x the GPUs, and you have three x the performance per GPU roughly. So then you're at, like, 15 x more compute.”

    26:01 · Unsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron · 21 Jan 2025 · permalink
  7. Patel reports CoreWeave has over 200,000 GPUs, billions in revenue, $20 billion valuation, and plans to IPO in 2025.

    “CoreWeave now has, like, 200 k plus GPUs. Right? Like Yeah. A lot of GPUs. Right? They're doing, like, you know, billions of dollars of revenue.”

    1:06:36 · Unsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron · 21 Jan 2025 · permalink
  8. Patel says NVIDIA will sell over 3 million total GPUs next year and over a million H100s this year.

    “NVIDIA is gonna sell well over 3,000,000 total GPUs next year, over a million H100s this year alone. There's a lot of GPU capacity coming online. It's an incredible amount.”

    7:46 · Latent Space · 5 Dec 2023 · permalink
  9. Patel states NVIDIA will sell over one million H100s this year and over three million total GPUs next year.

    “NVIDIA is gonna sell well over 3,000,000 total GPUs next year, over a million H100s this year alone. There's a lot of GPU capacity coming online.”

    7:46 · Latent Space · 5 Dec 2023 · permalink
  10. Patel says NVIDIA is shipping more GPU flops this year than in its entire data center history combined.

    “There's more GPU flops shipping this year that NVIDIA shipped their entire history for the data center.”

    0:00 · The Inside View · 9 Aug 2023 · permalink

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