Interesting How AI Investing Is Slowly Turning Into An Infrastructure Trade

The more I look at these mega private-company valuations, the less this feels like a traditional tech cycle.

It increasingly looks like an infrastructure race.

SpaceX is satellites, launch systems and communications infrastructure.

OpenAI is compute infrastructure and enterprise AI layers.

Anthropic is enterprise workflow automation and AI agents.

Databricks is data infrastructure.

Stripe is internet payments infrastructure.

Even the funding structures are changing.

Reuters noted the SpaceX IPO discussions involve mostly primary capital going into the business itself rather than insider selling. That suggests expansion and buildout may matter more than liquidity exits right now.

Another thing worth watching:

Nasdaq’s updated “Fast Entry” rules could potentially allow mega IPOs into the Nasdaq-100 after only 15 trading days instead of waiting months.

That could create pretty large passive-fund flows very quickly after listing.

Feels like public markets are preparing for a very different type of IPO cycle than the one we saw in 2020-2021.

Less social apps.

More strategic systems.