
Fran Van Der Merwe
@FrancoisXite
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CEO at @TForge_AI - Amateur Futurist - Follower of Christ - Husband - Dad
Gauteng
Joined April 2014
The hardware is impressive. But the disembodied AI agent is infinitely more scalable and will disrupt industries faster. Which will transform your business first: the visible robot or the invisible agent? #FutureOfWork #Disruption
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This physical robot is a vessel for the real revolution: agentic AI. The same AI models learning to fold laundry are the ones we're training to negotiate, sell, and provide service in millions of conversations at once. #AgenticAI
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Legacy companies are bolting AI onto an old chassis. The challenger is building an entirely new vehicle. Can legacy ever truly transform? Or is the only winning move to start over? #Leadership #Strategy
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The real threat is a 10-person, AI-first startup that can run circles around your 100-person team. Their advantage isn't just the tech—it's the lack of organisational debt and a pre-AI mindset. They have no legacy to protect.
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The biggest threat to your tech company isn't AI. It's something far more dangerous. (thread 👇) #AI #Disruption #AIRevolution
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The human tongue is a beast that few can master. Proverbs 18:21
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1. MIT researchers have built a new tool that forces generative AI models to design materials with complex quantum properties instead of random guesses. This could radically accelerate material discovery - a potential turning point for science and technology How it works, a
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Every company needs a DM POC - someone high up who you can just DM the most obvious things and who shortcuts the PM hierarchy.
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The result? We've successfully unlocked "Computer Industry V2." The impact won't be incremental. It will be 100x, 1,000x, or even 1,000,000x more valuable than what came before. As all "petty comparisons" to past tech bubbles just wash out when you see what this can do. #a16z
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The invention of the computer itself. Andreessen argues that AI is the first major reinvention of computing in 80 years—a fundamental shift from the rigid von Neumann architecture to the Neural Network. The concept has existed since the 1940s - now we catching up.
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We're all using the wrong metaphors for AI. It's not the next 'internet'. It's not another 'bubble'. In this clip, Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) argues we're fundamentally misunderstanding the current moment. And he makes a compelling case. (thread 👇) #AI #Innovation
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The benchmark for the AI era, via Elon Musk: Can you do in one year what others do in two or three? It's not about building faster, but adapting faster. The winner isn't just innovative—they have the fastest rate of innovation. #BusinessStrategy #Adaptability #ElonMusk
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As the value of digital tasks plummets, the value of "in-real-life" (IRL) human skills skyrockets. Empathy, trust, creative collaboration. These skills ain't enough. Competitors can emerge overnight, the only true advantage is SPEED. This brings us to the most important metric…
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We asking the wrong question about AI. It’s not “Will AI take my job?” Real question is “Which tasks will it make worthless?” Answer is simple: anything you do exclusively on a laptop. Digitization always drives costs to zero. So what becomes valuable? (👇) #AI #Futureofwork
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The most important business metric isn't innovation, it's the rate of innovation. Elon Musk: "Can you do in one year what other companies do in two or three years?" If the answer is no, you're falling behind. Speed is everything. #Innovation #ElonMusk #Business #Tech
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Exciting times. AI is almost 90% cheaper and almost 300% more efficient. Great visual graph by @EthanMollick.
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HARD TRUTH: AI is unstoppable. The only choice we have is to steer it in the right direction.
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