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This is very interesting. Coinbase seems to have lowered their token spend ($$) to about half, by 1) routing to cheap inference like GLM 5.2 and Kimi 2.7 that are still pretty performant 2) Smart rout

Adding my voice to the chorus who are saddened by @Om’s too-early passing. Just heartbroken to hear of the passing of the incredible Om Malik. @Om was always a pioneer, a deep thinker, and a truly ori

'AI Is Dumber Than Investors Think — ft. Gary Marcus' Ed Elson is joined by Gary Marcus to discuss why he’s concerned about the fact that we’re all-in on AI. They explore why he argues generative AI i

Although the tech bros and some pharma think AI will cure cancer, Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna, inventor of the Crispr gene-editing technology says that innovation is still really in the domain of h

Always playing checkers and never chess. President Trump on truth social: any country that imposes a Digital Services Tax on American companies will immediately be met with a 100% tariff on any and al

“America’s preoccupation with “winning” the AI race with China could well lead to unprecedented catastrophes, even catastrophes on a global scale. Not all games are zero-sum, and if this fact doesn’t

“An AI future where only a few US companies, subject to the whims of the US government, have frontier AI runs a high risk of dystopian outcomes.” An AI future where only a few US companies, subject to

Gary Marcus clarifies a distinction between profit and revenue in a discussion, apologizing for previous lack of clarity on this economic/financial concept. The post likely addresses common confusion

Gary Marcus argues that poor performance in military applications correlates with or reflects fundamental weaknesses in AI capabilities and development. The post likely critiques limitations in curren

Gary Marcus posted a correction regarding a New York Times report about a company contemplating delays to their IPO plans. The post appears to address inaccuracies or clarifications needed in the orig

Fantastic interview: Ed Elson is talking with Gary Marcus about AI tech, overrelience on LLMs, the business of AI, etc. I totally enjoyed this: https://youtu.be/_pSivPlRx5o?si=dzrJKpUGTHE0Y76I @edels0

from tokenmaxxing to this in less than three months. anyone who doesn’t see this as affecting Anthropic and OpenAI is not paying attention. UBS says 60% of companies now watching AI budgets are moving

“Gary Marcus … says that investments into scaling AI is the “greatest capital misallocation in history” which leaves everyone “on the hook”. However, he also says that it is still early days for the A

Gary Marcus discusses fundamental challenges and limitations in current AI systems during an interview, likely covering topics such as the gap between narrow and general intelligence, reasoning limita

This post highlights an apparent error where Google's Gemini AI attributed a film review to Roger Ebert for a 2016 movie, despite Ebert's death in 2013, making such a review impossible. The post, shar

“If there is a deflation of the AI bubble, the optimists say that the new infrastructure will remain even if the companies do not — just as railways survived the 19th-century railway bust. However, th

In a matter of weeks, U.S. federal AI policy has gone from implausibly libertarian to increasingly draconian and opaque. Today, over 35 distinct observations, I analyze how we got here and offer the m

Gary Marcus discusses arguments surrounding trillion-dollar implications, likely related to AI development, regulation, or economic impacts given his expertise in artificial intelligence and cognitive

June has been a dark month for the US generative AI industry, between hamfisted US policy and the transition to cheaper Chinese AI models. And then there is the delay of the OpenAI IPO. Is that the co

Gary Marcus argues that $SPCX exhibits high volatility because it functions as a meme stock tied to a rocket company, with its price movements driven by sentiment and social media enthusiasm rather th

This post likely discusses how Orwellian tactics—such as propaganda, doublespeak, and manipulation of language—are being employed in contemporary contexts, possibly relating to AI, technology, or poli

People want jobs, not subsidies: Taxing corporations to fund programs is usually controversial and partisan - but when it comes to AI job displacement voters are shockingly left wing. It's genuinely e

people with advanced degrees who can’t distinguish between pure LLMs (which is what I critiqued in 2022) and LLMs enhanced with neurosymbolic techniques (which is what I championed in 2022) disappoint

Gary Marcus shares an actual REI advertisement as a follow-up to previous discussion about flawed bicycle examples, crediting Oren Etzioni for the reference. The post appears to contrast a real-world

“Scale cannot solve AI’s fundamental problem with accuracy” If my argument @financialtimes, excerpted below, is remotely correct, hyperscaling will prove to be among the biggest financial blunders in

This article argues that increasing computational scale alone cannot address fundamental accuracy and reliability problems in AI systems, suggesting that AI development requires solutions beyond raw c

SPCX - SPACEX BOND SELLOFF DEEPENS SpaceX's 25 billion bond sale is suffering unusually steep losses, with paper losses exceeding $300 million. Traders say fast-money investors may be exiting, while c

Gary Marcus comments on significant losses in $SPCX stock, noting that investors who purchased at 225 experienced approximately one-third losses within two weeks as the stock fell below 150. The post

Talked with a few folks inside of AI labs (OpenAI, Anthropic) about what they think of the future of software engineering. The “closer” to shipping production code engineers are, the less they believe

Things came undone this week: Starmer resigned, SpaceX tanked, the Iran deal stumbled, and a housing bill that passed the Senate is dying on Trump’s desk. Today’s conversation with @GaryMarcus is a mu

This is what’s causing Anthropic to aggressively beg for govt protection (see below). Customers are finding cheaper alternatives. Keeping employees requires continuing ultra-rich secondaries ($$) that

THIS. The reason the US Government seems out of its depth now is because people Andreessen and Sacks steered them wrong before and the USG got caught out, utterly unprepared. It seems both foolish and

We stress tested many frontier AI models for multimodal medical reasoning (including GPT-5, Claude 3.5, Gemini 2.5 Pro). They’re not ready. Faulty reasoning, use of inappropriate shortcuts, hallucinat

Gary Marcus fact-checks a claim that WeWork had no revenue, indicating this is a debunking of a false statement about the coworking company's financial performance. The post clarifies that WeWork did

“WeWork’s IPO fell apart. I’ve been calling OpenAI the (possible) WeWork of AI for a long time. I will not be surprised if their IPO plans apart, too” - @garymarcus, June 10, two weeks before OpenAI d

ah, the creative S-1 For those unfamiliar, WeWork pioneered the creative S-1 and the subsequent failure to IPO, and Sam seems to be following a comparable path. /cc @GaryMarcus https://qz.com/1685919/

An almost perfect prediction of the current AI predicament — and what may ultimately unravel our entire economy — from almost three years ago (August 2023), at Marcus on AI: Nearly every word remains

An important point which Gary will break down on tomorrow’s @ProfGMarkets episode Tune in Imagine if i had a business that gave you 20 bills for 10 bills. As word spread, my customer base would grow.

Gary Marcus discusses potential implications for generative AI if Michael Saylor (MicroStrategy CEO and prominent Bitcoin advocate) experiences financial or reputational difficulties. The post likely

Big Breaking News: White House asks OpenAI to delay GPT- 5.6. NEW: Trump admin asks OpenAI to stagger GPT-5.6 release over cyber concerns. Will approve 'access customer by customer during this preview

Chart of increasing revenue, pre the decline of token-maxxing, not looking at the immense costs/lack of profitability, not considering threats from open-source models, price-war dynamics etc. @noahopi

Crazy how many times people have told me over the last five years that a solution to hallucinations was right around the corner — and yet here we still are. This study tests how often LLMs invent answ

Disagree with @mcuban’s opening sentence – I do think some people genuinely hate the noise, blight, impact on electric prices, etc—but he is quite right that data centers have become a proxy for hate

Grifters and many other salesman are like LLMs. They say things that aren’t always true with absolutely certainty. Bitcoin has won. Global consensus is that $BTC is digital capital. The four-year cycl

Grok may not be the AGI that Elon promised, but it appears that the man has found his use case. xAI is betting big on AI video and image generation — but the biggest driver of Grok Imagine may not be

Imagine if i had a business that gave you 20 bills for 10 bills. As word spread, my customer base would grow. My revenue (how many $10 bills I collected) would grow. And I would continue to lose money