Marquis Cabrera
@MarquisCabrera
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Hacker / Investor - Co-Founder of @stat_zero, Former IBMer, Wayfair, Obama White House; Proud @NEU Alum
San Francisco, CA
Joined June 2009
I finally understand the difference between LLMs, RAG, and AI Agents. After building production AI systems for 2 years... Here's what actually matters: They're not competing technologies. They're three layers of the same intelligence stack, and most people are using them
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And with that comment, he's out :)
This was an exceptionally cogent articulation from Roelof about the state of venture capital. "There's a lot more talent than really interesting companies to be built. And I think we're spreading a lot of that talent thin right now." "Venture is a return-free risk."
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Ben Horowitz with another banger On fear and self-belief: āIf your guts arenāt boiling, youāre not even trying.ā
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This guy literally shows how to build your first AI agent from scratch
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The biggest infrastructure supercycle in history is here. We are building the foundation of intelligence itself, with tools, models, silicon and light. This is our moonshot. Excited to present Runtime 2025 from @a16z AI x Infra.
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Holy shit...Stanford just built a system that converts research papers into working AI agents. Itās called Paper2Agent, and it literally: ⢠Recreates the method in the paper ⢠Applies it to your own dataset ⢠Answers questions like the author This changes how we do science
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Anthropic just dropped the smartest one-pager on using AI at work. Read it once, and youāll never look at productivity the same way.
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Frank Slootman: āBeing a CEO is a highly confrontational roleā āIāve gone one record a few times and people have taken me to task on it, when Iāve said that being a CEO is a highly confrontational role. But they think that āconfrontationalā means Iām grabbing people by the
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Everyone should read this. If you align āhardā with a political party you have turned off your brain and outsourced your thinking to others. Data is clear on both sides of aisle. Think for oneself.
Warning: Political Ideology May Impair Your Ability to Reason ā[I]f youāre not careful, ideology wonāt just shape your opinions; itāll hijack your ability to reason altogether.ā [Link below.]
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R.I.P McKinsey. You donāt need a $300k consultant anymore. You can now run full competitive market analysis using Grok 4. Here are the exact 3 mega-prompts I use to replicate McKinsey-style insights for free:
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Top 50 Global Thought Leaders and Influencers on GovTech 2025 https://t.co/EUwQaR9giN Feat. @mjkeegandc @wdeggers @MarquisCabrera @dchenok @michaelmartino @stephatkins @enricomolinari @antgrasso + #govtech #business #technology #thoughtleadership
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A must watch even if you donāt care about tennis.
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As Iāve been warning, the full Chinese stack is here. We rescinded the Biden Diffusion Rule just in time. The American AI stack needs to be unleashed to compete.
Media reported that Malaysia has become the first country outside China to deploy Huawei chips, servers, and DeepSeekās large language model (LLM).
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If you don't let up on yourself and instead become comfortable always operating with some level of pain, you will evolve at a faster pace. That's just the way it is. Every time you confront something painful, you are at a potentially important juncture in your life--you have the
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13 things LPs should know about venture capital. 1/ VC is highly cyclical, alternating between long risk-on periods followed by sudden risk-off periods. Trying to time things is a fools errand, which is why consistency across vintages is required. 2)75-90% of VC funds
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Goodbye, Golden Handcuffs: Inside The Partner Exodus Rippling Across Venture Capital https://t.co/m9zEO8v5YZ
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Watch the full interview with Bill Ackman on the @lexfridman podcast here:
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Bill Ackman on dealing with disaster: āMake a little progress every dayā After losing $4 billion in Valeant Pharmaceuticals, other Wall Street investors started betting against his firm, Pershing Square, to further compound its catastrophic 30%+ loss and force a liquidation. To
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OpenAI's new branding tries to tap the emotional side of AI.
fastcompany.com
OpenAI's rebrand balances the technical and the emotional by updating its logo and centering a new typeface called OpenAI Sans.
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