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  "disclaimer": "Analysis and opinion, not investment advice.",
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  "question": "How much of the money buying AI chips was lent, guaranteed or invested by the companies selling them?",
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      "Compute days outstanding yourself on November 18: receivables over the quarter's revenue, times 91. July 26, 2026 gave 59.6.",
      "Split Nvidia's $108.5 billion of guarantees by when they bind: $105 billion for SB Energy phases in from fiscal 2029; $3.5 billion is live.",
      "Read Broadcom's $29B backstop and the $42B note facility in its Aug 2 10-Q, which Reuters ties to Anthropic, before its Dec 9 report."
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      "Nvidia's 10-Q for the quarter to Oct 25, 2026 puts days outstanding below 51.1, the average before July: the second quarter was a peak.",
      "Free cash flow tops 71% of net income on Nov 18, its average in the four quarters before July: the cash came in and the terms were timing.",
      "AMD or Broadcom reports a gigawatt-scale accelerator deal with no warrant, investment, loan or guarantee by Dec 9: demand pays its own way."
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          "name": "Michael Burry",
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          "name": "Michael Burry",
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          "name": "Distillate Capital Partners LLC",
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          "name": "Steve Eisman",
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          "name": "Steve Eisman",
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          "name": "Steve Eisman",
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          "name": "Ed Elson",
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          "url": "https://hypertechinvest.com/p/the-math-behind-the-next-ai-rally",
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          "claim": "A signed lease at Panther Creek would change how the market values Keel by establishing the economics, improving financing visibility and showing the power portfolio can support a viable data center business, and the full 2.2 GW does not need to…",
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          "claim": "NVIDIA has extended payment terms for investment-grade customers from 90 days to a full year, lengthening days sales outstanding by 14 days.",
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          "claim": "Anthropic and OpenAI together account for roughly 70% of hyperscaler AI revenue and 25-35% of total cloud revenue, with Microsoft, Amazon, and Google's growth substantially dependent on these two companies.",
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          "name": "Invest in Assets",
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          "claim": "The bull argument for the financing structure holds that Nvidia is not lending money but providing a revenue guarantee on compute capacity with fundamentally different risk, the compute retains value because it is redeployable, and the customers…",
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          "claim": "The core criticism of Nvidia's financing structure is that revenue guarantees on compute capacity becoming cheaper every year means the floor Nvidia is guaranteeing could end up above market rates, and if token prices keep falling, the neoclouds'…",
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          "name": "Michael Spencer",
          "entity": "https://deepstack.ltd/people/michael-spencer/",
          "claim": "An Anthropic IPO might be a safer bet than semiconductor or neo-cloud stocks in this climate, because the U.S. needs its frontier model maker and enterprise AI leader, so if Anthropic were ever in serious financial trouble, Nvidia, Amazon and…",
          "date": "2026-10-01",
          "url": "https://www.ai-supremacy.com/p/ai-frontier-google-gemini-4-argon",
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      "label": "The thread",
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        "id": "the-loan-is-a-bridge",
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        "lead": [
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            "name": "Clark Tang",
            "entity": "https://deepstack.ltd/people/clark-tang/",
            "date": "2026-08-12",
            "url": "https://taekim.substack.com/p/nvidia-is-speedrunning-the-creation",
            "line": "Third-party money from Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR was underwritten independently and replaces Nvidia's balance sheet rather than stretching it."
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            "name": "Daniel Nishball",
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            "date": "2026-07-06",
            "url": "https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/nvidia-gpu-debt-backstop-unleashes",
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            "name": "Gaetano",
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          "url": null,
          "line": "Nvidia, acting as supplier, investor, financier and broker, introduced Nebius to four customers worth more than $1 billion each in the first quarter.",
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