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The AI supercycle is driving massive demand for subsea cables, critical minerals, and energy, and the ocean is the primary resource for all of them.

The AI supercycle is creating enormous demand for subsea cables, critical minerals, and energy, all of which are primarily sourced from the ocean. This will drive a future where robots operate in every domain, including the sea. ✦ AI generated

Ulysses founder · a16z Podcast · 2026-08-05 · original ↗

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The AI super cycle is increasing demand for subsea cables. It's increasing demand for critical minerals. It's increasing demand for energy. These are all things which the ocean is a primary resource for. There's going to be robots that operate in and manage every domain 10 to 15 years from now. You see it already happening on land with self-driving cars and in the air with delivery drones and things like that. We're the ones building the robots for the ocean.

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1:43with delivery drones and things like that. We're the ones building the robots for the ocean. >> We're already [music] pretty much supply limited instead of demand limited, which is a good problem to have. The demand hasn't been constrained to one domain like defense or commercial crowd. Both sides honestly, people can't [music] seem to get enough. There are so many people chomping at the bit to have vehicles [music] that are reliable come

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