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AI Cartel

Apurv Gupta

AI Cartel

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Jensen called Quantum “30 Years Away”. Then NVIDIA Built the Plumbing Anyway, Why?

In January 2025 at CES Las Vegas, Jensen Huang said useful quantum computers were probably 15-30 years away. Quantum stocks sold off hard.

By one count, Rigetti (which designs and operates quantum computers and processors) fell -45% that...

10 days ago

Cartel Capital #8 — One Year Later: The Easiest Way to Drag Down an AI Portfolio

🎬 Performance Update

  • Since May 2025, the AI Cartel portfolio is up by +30%

  • Last time I wrote, it was Oct 14, 2025. A year of silent observation has made the AI Stack clearer: the builders are winning and the bottlenecks are r...

13 days ago

Cartel Capital #7 — Investing in Agentic Systems

🎬 Performance Update

  • Since May 2025, AI Cartel’s portfolio has outperformed major benchmarks — up roughly +13% ahead of the Nasdaq Composite and +25% ahead of the S&P 500.

  • A simple $250/week strategy (even factoring in a two-...

a year ago
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Cartel Capital #6 — Where AI Meets the Masses: Search, Commerce & UX

Last week, we invested in the Interface Layer — the companies working to make AI more human, for us to connect with it.⚠️ In case you missed it, here it is:



We’re still in the early days of the AI revolution, begin investing...

a year ago
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AI Cartel Portfolio: +5.60% in 30 Days & Re-balancing Strategy Deployed

Till date, we’ve deployed ~$1,400 (€1,250) across the AI Stack — from chips and data labeling to feedback loops and interface layers.

We’ve picked 20+ companies, not as random bets, but as thematic probes into how AI is actually being bui...

a year ago
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