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Between 1960 and 1973, the US spent the equivalent of ~$20bn per year in today’s value of the currency3 on the Apollo program. This was the cost to conquer the moon. Microsoft alone will likely spend over $50bn in capex per year in the foreseeable future to conquer generative AI. We are witnessing the largest-scale investment humanity has ever made in a new technological frontier.