Murray Newlands

VC, Partner at IA Seed Ventures and Founder of Open Future Forum, Ex Forbes, Inc. All views are my own. Not a representation of the fund.

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Why Executive Communities Are Replacing Conferences For AI Decisions https://t.co/s0euyvspbD via @SMBtech_au

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Top General Counsel Communities and Events in Silicon Valley and San Francisco: Where Legal Leaders https://t.co/CWUDsR2uqG via @TechBullion

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A 14B open model on a single RTX 4090 matched our hosted frontier model on text-to-SQL.

That wasn’t supposed to happen.

We ran 28 configurations, graded 25,000+ answers, and benchmarked against Snowflake + Databricks.

What we learned:

model size, model reputation, and vendor benchmark scores are bad shortcuts for predicting performance on your database.

So today we’re open-sourcing mnemiq.

Test it on your own data ↓

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What Are the Best Private Equity Events in San Francisco? https://t.co/jVHNXRM7Eg via @YouTube

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What Actually Makes an Executive Dinner Work? https://t.co/yhI2VDdGr0 via @YouTube

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What CMOs Are Actually Buying in AI in 2026 https://t.co/qyoYiz3gDU via @YouTube

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What CISOs Are Actually Worried About With AI Agents https://t.co/zznw2POosY via @YouTube

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The AI Budget Fight Inside the C-Suite https://t.co/nn37XvuQiI via @YouTube

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What CISOs Are Actually Worried About With AI Agents https://t.co/qj8bSk5ITT via @YouTube

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What 6,055 Executive Registrations Reveal About Enterprise AI https://t.co/da0JHKWwAI via @YouTube

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Why Most Companies Still Can’t Prove AI ROI https://t.co/t8RBSpwf6A via @YouTube

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Who Actually Owns AI CEO vs CFO vs CIO vs Security Chief https://t.co/DTtACoGnT7 via @YouTube

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How to Get Invited Into Exclusive Executive Peer Groups #openfutureforum... https://t.co/RmAlHqhBHa via @YouTube

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The AI Leverage Gap: Who Signs vs. Who Proves It Worked https://t.co/d6b3fevfDr via @YouTube

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The AI Leverage Gap: Why CEOs Sign AI Deals but Rarely Prove the ROI https://t.co/MIzBxLkye9 via @YouTube

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AI Spend Who Signs, Who Proves, and The Distance Problem #openfuturefor... https://t.co/gs9OlKEKAL via @YouTube

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Is AI Your Assistant, Your Co-Worker, or Your Early Warning System?, by @MurrayNewlands https://t.co/Ndf4pPeOxr

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How to Network Like an Executive, by @MurrayNewlands https://t.co/AXCBd5Ui4G

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What enterprise leaders are most excited about with AI right now, by @MurrayNewlands https://t.co/Ae8a9FkOQi