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Nate B Jones breaks down a pivotal week of AI earnings and deal news organized around a single revealing divergence: Meta stock jumped roughly 10% while Microsoft dropped roughly 11%, despite both companies reporting strong results and announcing enormous AI infrastructure spending. Meta posted $8.88 earnings per share on $59.9 billion in revenue and announced $115-135 billion in capital expenditure for 2026—nearly double the prior year—and investors cheered because Zuckerberg could trace every dollar to his advertising business. Microsoft’s Azure grew 39% but disclosed that 45% of its $625 billion commercial backlog depends on OpenAI, a company Microsoft does not control, prompting Deutsche Bank to flag the relationship as a make-or-break dependency.
The video also covers Nvidia’s $2 billion investment in CoreWeave at $87.20 per share (targeting 5 gigawatts of AI data center capacity by 2030), Microsoft’s $750 million three-year deal giving Perplexity access to OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI models through Microsoft Foundry, and Tesla’s earnings call where the company announced it is discontinuing the Model S and Model X to redirect factory capacity toward robotics.
The strategic lesson Jones draws is precise: markets have begun pricing AI strategies differently based on who controls the underlying AI asset. Whether a company builds proprietary capability (expensive, slow, defensible) or rents frontier models (faster but exposed to a supplier’s execution) is now a visible line item in how Wall Street values tech companies.
📺 Source: Nate B Jones · Published January 31, 2026
🏷️ Format: News Analysis
