[01]Macro

The whole
picture

Advanced thematic equity and macroeconomic research. Independent, and based in Singapore.

[02]Theme

The shift
beneath it

The structural changes that move whole industries, followed as they spread through compute, power and capital.

[03]Company

Where it
lands

Every thesis is traced down to the businesses on the receiving end, and valued on what the shift is worth to them.

[01]The core thesis

Common
intelligence.

Intelligence is becoming a utility: an input to every machine, the way electricity and the internet became. Metamorphosis argues that the companies building the compute, power and networks behind it are turning into infrastructure the market has not yet learned to price.

Essay · Martin Chang · July 2026 · Singapore Metamorphosis From Teraflops to Gigawatts Five parts · 106 notes · Read online or as a PDF
  1. 01The Right Metric
  2. 02The Demand Is Pre-Sold
  3. 03Why the Market Cannot See It
  4. 04The Casualties, and the Rebuttals
  5. 05What the World Looks Like If This Is Right
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[02]Research

Latest
research.

Published on Substack. Free pieces for everyone; the full archive for members. The archive →

23 October 2026 · 4 min read

A New and Intelligent World

and an introduction from me

[03]Method

One thesis.
Four altitudes.

We start with the forces that move whole economies and work down. A thesis only reaches a company once it has held at every level above it.

  1. 01 / 04

    Macro

    Rates, liquidity, energy, demographics and policy. The forces no single company controls, but every company answers to.

  2. 02 / 04

    Theme

    The structural shift those forces set in motion: what is changing, how fast, and how long it can run.

  3. 03 / 04

    Industry

    Where the spending lands. Supply chains, bottlenecks and margins, mapped link by link.

  4. 04 / 04

    Company

    The businesses on the receiving end, valued on what the shift is actually worth to them.

[04]The desk

What we're
watching.

Three series we keep open, rebuilt from Epoch AI's public data. Capability is compounding, installed compute doubles roughly every 4.8 months, and the buildings that house it still take two years to put up.

Compute
AI compute installed across tracked data centres, in H100-equivalents
ObservedAnnounced or under construction
Capability
14.1
ECI points gained each year at the frontier
R² 0.96 · 22 frontier releases
Compute
4.8MO
for installed AI compute to double
93 data centres tracked
Build time
26.1MO
median from ground-breaking to the first building live
69 completed sites · no trend

Built from Epoch AI data, used under CC BY 4.0. Our calculations, so any errors are ours. Data as of 2026-10-06. Download the compute series (CSV).

[05]Themes

Follow
the spend.

Each theme is a map: where the money starts, every company it passes through, and the links where we think the pricing power sits.

Schematic · ● Where we're looking

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