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Velocity Meter

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Velocity Meter Venture

Stripe AI Minions Wrote 30% of Code in One Week

Stripe

· 12 min read

Velocity Meter Market Signals

European Equities Are Trouncing the S&P 500

European equities are outperforming US markets as the Fed decentralizes its structure, creating a new, ambiguous regime for capital allocators by moving away from explicit forward guidance.

· 14 min read

Velocity Meter Private Equity

84% of PE’s Recent Run-Up Was Mega-Deals, and It’s Gone

PE market splits: mega-deals and top-tier assets thrive, masking middle-market stagnation where 2021 valuation multiples remain high despite broader slowdown.

· 11 min read

Velocity Meter

The AI Market Pivots from Monster Models to Cheaper, Faster Wins

AI trends shift from costly models to practical apps offering efficiency & business impact; companies embrace affordable, integrated AI solutions & rethink data infrastructure.

· 14 min read

Velocity Meter Venture

Starcloud Goes Orbital, Bypassing Terrestrial AI Limits

AI's interstellar race heats up: Starcloud's unicorn valuation and satellite launch signal a non-linear shift in compute capacity, bypassing terrestrial bottlenecks.

· 11 min read

Velocity Meter Market Signals

Will China's Tech Shift Redefine Western Market Entry?

Global economics realign: technology leadership shifts, market dynamics upend, and Western markets face disinflation and labor changes amidst a fundamental tech and trade power shift.

· 12 min read

Velocity Meter Private Equity

16% of LP Liquidity Comes from Continuation Vehicles

Top-quartile GPs use CVs for liquidity and are upgrading how they track value creation. This drives 16% of LP liquidity.

· 11 min read

Velocity Meter

The Reading Era Is Over, the Experiential Era Has Begun

AI's frontier is deploying models in simulations to break things, map internal geometry, and execute physical and digital operations at machine speed.

· 11 min read

Velocity Meter Venture

Can Simile's Data Strategy Shape the Future for Fortune 500?

The AI talent wars are quietly shifting from building models to applying them, forcing a reckoning inside product teams and a new premium on people who turn AI into usable work.

· 11 min read

Velocity Meter Market Signals

How Is the Bond Market Driving 30-Year Treasury Yields?

The Fed is stepping back from explicit guidance, forcing markets to function with less hand-holding. This is a regime change from the post-2008 era.

· 12 min read

Velocity Meter Private Equity

5 to 10 Percent Margin Beat Is a Win for Adam Crandall

Adam Crandall on why private equity now rewards profitable growth, not just revenue, and how Addtronics quadrupled revenue with strategic market specialization.

· 15 min read

Velocity Meter

OpenAI Lobbies for Slowdown, but NVIDIA Supports Open Models

OpenAI and Anthropic lobby for AI slowdowns, citing risks, while NVIDIA, Google, and Microsoft champion open-source models.

· 13 min read

Velocity Meter Venture

Travis Kalanick Says Atoms Offers 40% More Productivity

The real AI battle isn’t about models; it’s about industrializing and physically embedding them to unlock trillions in value.

· 12 min read

Velocity Meter Market Signals

Will China's Playbook Drive Oil to $200 and Reshape Global Money?

The market demands ROI from AI and faces rising costs from geopolitical shocks. China’s strategic plays might drive oil to $200 and redefine international…

· 13 min read

Velocity Meter Private Equity

China Floods AI Market with 99 Percent Lower Cost Models

China is disrupting the global AI market by flooding it with powerful, low-cost open-source models.

· 13 min read

Velocity Meter

China Embraces Open-Source AI, but the US Weaponizes Regulation

The AI gold rush is shifting from raw compute and model hype to data quality and specialized "model factories." The industry is recognizing that raw scale and…

· 12 min read