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CEO at @TForge_AI - Amateur Futurist - Follower of Christ - Husband - Dad

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Fran Van Der Merwe
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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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Fran Van Der Merwe
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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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Fran Van Der Merwe
2 days
This video of the Figure 03 robot is incredible. But everyone is drawing the wrong conclusion... anyway, in my industry (Contact Centres) The robot isn't the real story. (thread 👇) #AI #Robotics
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Fran Van Der Merwe
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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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Fran Van Der Merwe
5 days
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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Fran Van Der Merwe
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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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Fran Van Der Merwe
7 days
The human tongue is a beast that few can master. Proverbs 18:21
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@kimmonismus
Chubby♨️
14 days
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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@karpathy
Andrej Karpathy
8 days
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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@elonmusk
Elon Musk
9 days
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@DefiantLs
Defiant L’s
10 days
Elon Musk: “I vowed to destroy the woke mind virus” Buying X was saving free speech and soon, Grokipedia will be making sure people get factual unbiased information
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Fran Van Der Merwe
9 days
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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Fran Van Der Merwe
9 days
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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Fran Van Der Merwe
9 days
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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Fran Van Der Merwe
10 days
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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Fran Van Der Merwe
10 days
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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Fran Van Der Merwe
10 days
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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Fran Van Der Merwe
15 days
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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Fran Van Der Merwe
17 days
Exciting times. AI is almost 90% cheaper and almost 300% more efficient. Great visual graph by @EthanMollick.
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@PeterDiamandis
Peter H. Diamandis, MD
6 months
HARD TRUTH: AI is unstoppable. The only choice we have is to steer it in the right direction.
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Fran Van Der Merwe
7 months
Almost everyone is in the “cool” frame now....
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