Grok Fast 4.1 Outperforms Agents 10‑20× Faster
This looks crazy good, will run evals now on our sota II-Agent The cost and speed of grok fast 4.1 are way higher than comparable agentic AI models, even top notch ones from the numbers here - 10-20x better in some cases
Buyer‑side Agents Will Disrupt Martech by 2026
Buyer-side agents are the real disruption (a sneak preview of our Martech for 2026 report) https://t.co/emy5sjMTIh #martech https://t.co/iZu2dsRJza
Generative AI Set to Transform Music’s Future
Music team @StabilityAI is amazing, was a privilege to build it up and see how they came together It’ll be super interesting to see how music evolves with generative AI from technology to form to expression itself
AI Will Dominate Cloud Revenue by 2026
My interview with @danprimack for the @axios dealmaker summit yesterday 0:44 We are in an LLM bubble 🫧🫧 2:13 Does it create risks for AI in general 2:57 Why is open-source important? 4:33 Why haven't we raised recently? 6:45 Is China winning not only in...
US Government Draws Policy Ideas From State of AI Report
👀 the US Government getting policy inspo from @stateofaireport 🔮 see our prediction #10 https://t.co/lLCww4bNRG
Great Sales VPs Hire Fast, Retain Top, Cut Deadweight
Great VP of Sales, first week: - brings 2-4 great sales execs in ASAP. often week 1 - identifies top existing talent, does what it takes to keep them - begins to move out underperformers - jumps into all critical deals Mediocre VP of Sales,...
High Agency Means Testing Ideas, Not Just Acting Fast
High agency is often mistaken for speed. People assume it belongs to the ones who decide quickly and move without hesitation. That version looks impressive, but it is not what actually drives results. The real marker of high agency is quieter....
Creating Datasets to Power Robotic World Models
This company is building datasets to build world models for robotics. Only has 39 followers.
From Senior PM to Head of Product: Vanessa’s Journey
Dropping another internal Context episode. @vlaurenlee and I talk about how she ascended Shopify from senior PM to leading all of product. Vanessa is brilliant. Worth a watch for any builders. https://t.co/IQbZEEIsms
Small Podcast Audiences Drive Big Business Impact
You don’t need a massive audience for your podcast to matter. What you need is the right people listening and the right strategy behind it. Here’s why podcasting is still worth it, even with a small audience: - Most business...
Workday Launches EU Sovereign Cloud and AI Action Strategy
🎯 Amazing first day at #WDAYRisingEMEA in Barcelona, where Workday unveiled an impressive strategy targeting European sovereignty, midsize market expansion, and the shift from AI insights to AI action. #WorkdayPartnership Here's what dropped today: 1. EU Sovereign Cloud Full EU...
PLG Drives $200M ARR with Minimal Marketing
Lovable hit $200M ARR under 12 months. Their revenue per employee is an insane $2-3M ARR. Here's how they pulled it off 👇 Most founders mostly chase growth with sales hires, CAC math, and funnel tweaks. Lovable took the PLG...
AI Extracts NVIDIA Earnings Data with Near‑perfect Accuracy
I just dumped the latest NVIDIA 10-Q earnings report, released an hour ago, into Agentic Document Extraction, and the results are really accurate! Left side of the image shows the original PDF; right side shows the extracted info, including...
AI Era Product Strategy: London Meetup with Attio & Granola
🚨London🚨 We're hosting a @Fin_ai x @attio x @meetgranola meetup next week It's me, @nicolasosharp (CEO, Attio) and @VasZhovner (CTO, Granola) discussing Product Strategy in the AI Era. When: Wednesday, November 26, 6pm Where: Mindspace, Shoreditch Link in comments
Navigating Product Strategy in the AI Era
London: We're doing a Fin x Attio x Granola meet up next week! I'll be joined on stage by Nicolas Sharp (CEO, Attio) and Vas Zhovner (CTO, Granola) and we'll be discussing Product Strategy in the AI Era. Details Wednesday,...
New System Prompt Unlocks Sora 2’s Stunning Video Generation
This guy literally built a system prompt that makes Sora 2 create mind-blowing videos. (prompt in 🧵 ↓) https://t.co/FDqN6qSR2I
Prioritize Real-World Performance Over Benchmark Scores
i dont want models better on benchmarks. i want models that are better in real world scenarios
New Codex Model Marks Major Performance Leap
New Codex model is a significant improvement!
Scaling $50M AI Sales with Just Eight Reps
Caught up with an old colleague running sales at an AI company at $50m ARR. 🤵♀️They're building out their sales team now🧏♂️ The goal? 5 more humans, for a total of 8. Yup. Just 8 total. Too few? Probably. But...
AI Growth Is Ongoing Waves, Not a Bubble
The AI bubble is not a bubble. It is a series of waves. Tried to tell you. The waves will continue for years. Surf is up. Catch the waves that you can. They are coming in tight sets today.
Open LLMs Could Slash Costs by 70%, Save $24.8
New research from @MIT! The following is going to change in my opinion as more people and companies realize the advantages of open models: "Closed models dominate, with on average 80% of monthly LLM tokens using closed models despite much higher...
Celebrating 8 Years, Expanding Microsoft Partnership for Next Decade
Super excited to deepen our partnership with Microsoft . Thanks Scott Guthrie for this partnership which we announced together 8 years ago! Looking forward to the next decade together. Check out our Ignite video below.
Athletic Brewing Leads Non‑Alcoholic Beer Disruption, Outsmarts Legacy Brands
Category disruption is certainly not reserved for the tech industry alone. Real disruption - the kind that changes market share - is definitely not a common thing, but it does happen in young categories or ones experiencing strong underlying growth...
Parenting Redefines Success: Vision and Time Over Valuation
I’ve built startups, raised millions, and exited for $169M. But nothing changed my definition of success like becoming a parent..... When Apollo was born in 2022, success took on an entirely new meaning. Before: ARR. Exits. Valuations. After: • Sleepless...
LLMs Lose Context After 100k Tokens, Need Frequent Resets
People working on basic code and reset their Agent chats every 4-5 replies I envy you. Having to work on deep context design work and at about 100k tokens, LLMs start to get lazy / confused. I resorted to giving them...
Visualizing Karpathy’s Key Idea
i liked this @karpathy post from a few months back, and put together a quick slide to show this visually https://t.co/cQCkYxmQsB
ChatGPT Goes Free for U.S. Teachers for a Year
1/ We’re making ChatGPT free for every teacher and school district in the U.S. for more than a year. Teachers are already some of the most creative AI users – this gives them space to explore, experiment, and bring those ideas...
Own Mistakes Transparently to Build Trust
This is exactly how you speak about a mistake, detail an outage, take responsibility, apologize earnestly, and build up trust. It adds a layer of concrete rather than chips away at what's left. Bravo to @eastdakota and the rest of the...
SaaS Beats AI on Profitability, Cash Flow Realities
New Post: The Real Economics of SaaS versus AI Companies https://t.co/aFVSWCkg0j
New Example Illustrates Key Findings From Our Paper
@dileeplearning Here's another example. See our paper for details. https://t.co/LvU16Oe45g
Humans and LLMs Jointly Infer Grid Transformation Rules
@dileeplearning As a fun example, here is one task from our study, where we asked humans and LLMs to both generate an output grid and the rule that describes the transformation. https://t.co/oNSXVyCzg8
Break the AI Hamster Wheel with Dual-Track Exploration
Oof. I feel like I’ve been on an AI hamster wheel. 🐹 I think a lot of others have as well. I’m experimenting with a couple of ways to get out of it… The AI Hamster Wheel 1. New AI...
Customer‑First Design Transforms SurveyGate Into Multi‑Feedback Platform
11 years after selling my first SaaS for $3M, and after building 3 agencies in between, I'm returning to the software space with SurveyGate. Ironically, I built it wrong the first time as a result of committing a cardinal SaaS...
Users Demand GPT‑5.1: Obedient, Adaptive, Proactive, Discovery‑driven AI
This seems small but is actually a huge win for GPT-5.1 🏆 When I talk to business users of ChatGPT, what they want is: 1) for ChatGPT to follow instructions, even negative ones - if you say ‘never say the...
Three Simple Steps to Defuse Upset Customers
While teaching a workshop this morning, I had a salesperson come up to me during a break and said, "Marcus, I don't do well with conflict. When a customer is upset, I freeze. Can you help?" This simple question led...
AI Must Outgrow SaaS to Match Profitability
SaaS vs. AI economics...hype or reality? The tweet below inspired my latest post and template. What growth do we need to see in an AI company to match SaaS economics or make it more attractive than a SaaS company? I...
AI Beats Humans on Tasks, Humans Still Lead Multimodal Reasoning
AI now exceeds human performance in most technical tasks — but humans still lead in multimodal reasoning 🧠 The next frontier isn’t about replacing humans, but amplifying how we think across data, images & language. Source: Stanford AI Index 2025 #AI #Innovation #FutureOfWork...
AI-Driven GTM: Top Marketing Tactics Revealed
SaaStr AI Live: Whats Working in Marketing as AI runs GTM https://t.co/ZsGOSMSkwk
Great Agencies Are Brutally Honest and Action‑focused
Some of the most important conversations between agency and brand happen when performance is rough. Some agencies will lie to you and tell you what you want to hear. Good agencies will tell you the truth. Great agencies will tell you the truth...
AI Ran My Startup for a Week, Revenue Soared
I just spoke to a group of 130 CEOs, CMOs and CROs about my backwards approach to AI. And despite all the AI guys thinking it's stupid, I seem to be the only guy who has an autonomous business… and...
Custom Subagent Models Added in Latest Droid Update
droid changelog custom models for subagents are IN full changelog here: https://t.co/c5pzDR734B https://t.co/bS5sOOuzrQ
Align Story, Trust, and Media for Founder Brand Growth
Every great founder brand lives at the intersection of three forces: 1. Storytelling creates understanding. 2. Founder branding creates trust. 3. New media creates distribution. When those three align, everything compounds. Every launch, every post, every interview reinforces the same...
Build with AI: A Quick Starter Guide
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BCIs Could Amplify Parent-Child Telepathy for Deeper Connection
One gift of parenthood is becoming so attuned to your child that you develop what feels like mild telepathy. How might brain-computer interfaces potentially allow us to expand and enrich this for the purpose of greater love and understanding? A...
Gemini 3 Builds Sign Language App in 5 Minutes
Gemini 3, are you freaking kidding me. Vibe coded a sign language recognition app with video enabled, confidence scores, sampling settings, and tips in under 5 minutes. Code written with Gemini-3. Gemini-2.5 handling detection. Video is sped up 2x. https://t.co/QT8TgjX8k9
Boldness Is a Strategic Must for B2B Success
Why #B2B boldness is a strategic – not a superficial – necessity https://t.co/N1rOXy6020
New B2B Playbook Guarantees ROI
The New B2B Playbook to Guarantee ROI (with Eric Siu and Adam Robinson)) https://t.co/cf6xewyowH
AI-Driven Digital Grid Powers Ultra-Efficient Energy Future
What does an electrified, digitalized, AI-powered future look like? Here are 5 key takeaways from @SchneiderElectric Innovation Summit: 1. One Digital Grid: Adding 1,000-2,000 TWh of electricity per decade. Platform on Azure reduces outages 40%, cuts interconnection timelines 25% with AI-powered intelligence. 2....
Switch to Omnisend: Reliable Automation Boosts Revenue
Some of our clients switched email platforms 6 months ago, and it changed everything. Before, they were stuck paying for bloated platforms with: → Features they never used → Flows that randomly broke → Support that took days to respond → Revenue leaking from unreliable...
Microsoft Launches Tool for Enterprise AI Agent Oversight
Microsoft Unveils Tool to Help Companies Control, Track AI Agents | World DNA https://t.co/7eETFvDiA6 #AIAgent #artificial_intelligence #AI #Microsoft