Arm unveiled an AGI CPU to address one of AI’s biggest bottlenecks, which is orchestration. During the chatbot craze of 2023-2025, GPUs did most of the heavy lifting while CPUs had become an afterthought. Yet with agentic workloads, which is perhaps the single largest catalyst on the horizon for the AI trade in 2026 and beyond, the importance of CPUs is set to increase. Regarding how Arm fits in, the company’s expertise in lowering power requirements could matter more than the market expects. After years of supplying the architecture IP behind other companies’ CPUs, Arm is preparing to directly compete with its customers and x86 CPU competitors by transitioning to a chip designer themselves. This comes during a time when CPU cores are expected to go up 4X from 30 million CPU cores per gigawatt to 120 million CPU cores per GW. Below, we explain why Arm may be joining a group of select, core AI names positioned to deliver over the long haul.

The $20 trillion market cap will not come from GPU unit growth alone, though unit growth remains very important. Rather, the value proposition will increasingly focus on economic output. This marks a tremendous shift for how Nvidia is evaluated. As the AI market shifts toward inference, Nvidia’s product cycles will be optimized around token economics such as throughput, latency, power efficiency and cost per token. The goal is no longer to simply sell faster and more powerful chips, but to deliver superior economic value at the system level relative to custom silicon (in other words, let the battle begin). Leading up to this, Nvidia was competing on performance metrics, and MLPerf benchmarks still matter of course. But going forward, workload economics and system-level efficiency will play a much larger role in how their systems are evaluated.

At GTC this week, Jensen Huang stated the revenue opportunity for Nvidia’s artificial intelligence chips may reach at least $1 trillion through 2027, up from a previous target of $500 billion. While that grabbed most of the headlines, there was another jaw-dropping statistic that will set the stage in the coming years - which was the ability to drive up to 35X higher throughput per megawatt with its new Groq 3 LPX racks. The Groq acquisition is aimed to solve a different limiter, which inference throughput per watt, where memory bandwidth can become the gating factor to token output and cost. Nvidia is preparing to position its GPUs to be among the best inference options available, utilizing Groq’s unique SRAM-based architecture to significantly turbocharge token throughput and accelerate inference performance.

Palantir stock sold off 38% from November to February and is down about 10% year-to-date. Even so, it has held up better than many software peers given the software sector has taken it on the chin lately with many promising names down 45% YTD. With this backdrop, the softer price action raises a straightforward question: is Palantir's growth engine still intact or is the premium valuation finally cracking? To answer that, the I/O Fund team dug into Palantir’s most recent earnings report and the key metrics that matter most. We also compare this quarter to the string of strong earnings reports Palantir has delivered for nearly three years to see whether the fundamentals are still pointing in the same direction.

Investors have been hearing “tech bubble” warnings for more than a decade — but instead of collapsing, the Nasdaq‑100 has gained 550%. If we look back ten years ago to 2015, headlines such as “Sell everything! 2016 will be a cataclysmic year” confronted investors with calls for an imminent recession. The bears made repeated claims that a “tech bubble” was about to burst with some of the world’s most prominent venture capitalists drawing parallels to the dot-com era. What followed tells a very different story with not only the Nasdaq-100 up 550% over a 10-year period but also high-flying stocks like Shopify returned as much as 5200% and Nvidia returned 22,000% over the same period.

The market is fixated on when Big Tech will generate economic value from the $650 billion+ being poured into AI data center expansion annually. The market is missing the point. Monetization has never been Big Tech’s weakness as explosive revenue growth and high margins have defined their businesses for decades. While execution risk always exists, these companies remain the world’s most reliable operators at scale.

I’m pleased to share the I/O Fund’s audited 2025 return of 37%, bringing cumulative performance since our May 2020 launch to 326%. This represents a 294% lead versus popular tech ETFs and a 152% outperformance versus the Nasdaq-100 over the same period. Our 2025 equity-only return of 56% would rank approximately #3 when compared against other thematic ETFs. On an annualized basis, the I/O Fund has delivered 29.2% per year, a result that outpaces Wall Street’s most established hedge funds.

Bitcoin rarely rewards narrative-based investors for long. Time and again, it has shown a habit of reversing its dominant trend against the prevailing story of the moment. A large portion of the I/O Fund’s edge has been staying on the right side of Bitcoin’s big turns in both directions by following a process rooted in analyzing sentiment through technical analysis, rather than headlines.