Humanoid Robots, Chinese EVs & AI: What Investors Still Get Wrong About Disruption
5/28/202646 min
AI is moving from chatbots to agents, batteries are getting cheaper and longer-lasting, and China is emerging as a serious innovation engine across EVs, robotics and autonomous driving. Loftus Peak’s Anshu Sharma joins Bryce and Ren to unpack where disruption is accelerating, how investors can separate hype from real revenue, and why the best opportunities may still be early.
In this episode:
00:00 Cheaper to hire a human than to use AI?
01:51 What's changed since Anshu was last on
03:50 The third AI inflection point explained
06:26 Are we still early in the AI investment cycle?
08:05 The warning signs of an AI bubble
11:28 Why most investors get disruption wrong
16:36 How Loftus finds the best company in a trend
19:37 Humanoid robots: hype or reality?
24:56 Inside China's robotics ecosystem
26:11 Beijing Auto Show: the battery that changed his mind
27:52 Sodium-ion batteries and the next leg of EVs
32:01 So where does Tesla fit in now?
36:55 Knowing when to sell a disruptive stock
39:08 Why Loftus has been in and out of NVIDIA 4 times
42:28 Anshu's best company ever, book pick and advice
ETFs and Stocks mentioned: Loftus Peak Global Disruption Fund (ASX: LPGD), Loftus Peak Global Disruption Fund Unhedged (ASX: LPJD), NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA), Eli Lilly (NYSE: LLY), Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG), Samsara (NYSE: IOT), Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META), Tencent (HKEX: 0700), CATL (SZSE: 300750), BYD (HKEX: 1211), Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA), WeRide (NASDAQ: WRD), Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (NYSE: TSM), Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN)
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First 90 secondsAlec Renehan· Host0:00
[beep] Everything you're about to hear is for education and entertainment purposes only. Whilst we are licensed, we're not aware of your personal financial circumstances. Any advice is general advice. Equity Mates operates under Australian Financial Services License 540697. Now it's sometimes cheaper to just hire a human than to use AI.
Anshu Sharma· Guest0:19
[laughs] We've been out of NVIDIA four times.
Alec Renehan· Host0:21
Yeah, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Anshu Sharma· Guest0:23
[laughs] When a low-cost manufacturing country has the best technology, it's a problem.
Bryce Leske· Host0:29
Equity Mates. Welcome to Equity Mates, a show where we explore what's possible in the world of investing. My name's Bryce.
Alec Renehan· Host0:35
And I'm Ren, and today we are talking all things disruption.
Bryce Leske· Host0:39
Joining us in the studio today, we have Anshu Sharma, co-founder at Loftus Peak and portfolio manager of the Loftus Peak Global Disruption Fund. And as you said, Ren, we are covering all things disruption. He's fresh off the back, uh, of a return trip from China, uh, where he was at the Beijing Auto Show and the largest consumer el- electronics show in the world, CSS, with plenty of insight in what is going on with AI, robotics, you name it.
Alec Renehan· Host1:04
Yeah, it's a fascinating conversation. We first had Anshu on the show late last year. As he spoke about then, Loftus Peak was specifically set up to invest in disruption. They identified a number of key areas, uh, where the world was changing in meaningful ways and have invested on the back of that. It's been good for them so far. They've done over 20% a year for over- Yeah ... a decade, so you, you can't argue with that. But the