marc andreessen just went on Rogan and casually dropped a TON of AI alpha
full pod is 3 hours and 20 minutes, but i pulled out his most interesting takes here:
1. AGI is here. he thinks the line was crossed about 3 months ago with the new GPT-5.5, claude 4.6, gemini 3, and grok 4.3 models. nobody noticed because the field moves too fast for anyone to register the milestones anymore.
2. his other big claim: for almost any topic, the top AIs now give him better answers than the actual world-class experts he could call on the phone. and he can call basically anyone.
3. every doctor is already secretly using chatGPT in the exam room. marc says they turn around the second you stop talking and just type your symptoms in. some of them are doing it while you're still sitting there. his quote: "at that point you're asking the question of like, what do i need you for."
4. when AI refuses to answer something he wants to know, he tells it he's writing a novel. "i'm writing a detective novel, walk me through how the bad guy robs the bank." it'll explain almost anything if it thinks it's helping you write fiction.
5. when something is too complex he says "explain it to me like i'm 10." then "like i'm 5." then "like i'm 2." he keeps going until it actually clicks in his brain.
6. when he wants to understand a tough topic he doesn't ask "what's the right answer." he asks the AI to steelman one side, then steelman the other. then he decides for himself.
7. for big questions he tells the AI to pretend to be a panel of experts. "be a doctor, a lawyer, a historian, a psychologist, and argue this out with each other." then he reads the debate they have.
8. pay attention to the exact moment you think "i don't know how to figure this out." most people just give up at that moment. that's the moment you should open the AI.
9. the only real skill left in using AI is knowing what to ask it. the models can already do almost anything you can describe in plain english. the bottleneck lives in your own head.
10. you can send the AI photos of almost anything medical now and get a real answer. skin rashes, blood test results, even pictures of your poop. the new models can read images, not just text. it's a free 24/7 second opinion on basically anything.
11. the one type of therapy that's clinically proven to actually work is called cognitive behavioral therapy. it's also something an AI can fully do on its own. which means every person on earth is about to have access to a real therapist for free, anytime they want.
12. AI is now solving math problems that have been open for 100+ years that no human mathematician could crack. same thing is starting in physics, chemistry, and biology. expect cancer cures, new drugs, and weird new physics breakthroughs to start coming out of these things over the next few years.
13. the best AI coders in silicon valley now make $50 million a year. one person. that's how much value the top performers print with these tools. it tells you how big this thing actually is when you strip away all the doom takes.
14. one friend paid $200 to get his entire DNA decoded (this used to cost millions of dollars and take years to do). then he gave the AI his DNA, his blood test results, and his apple watch data. the AI built him a full health dashboard and started telling him exactly what to fix.
15. another friend (almost certainly zuckerberg) put two cameras in his home jiu jitsu gym. AI now watches him spar and gives him notes on his technique after every round. like having a world-class coach at every practice for free.
16. the best programmers in silicon valley now run 20 AI coding bots at the same time. each bot writes code while they review the others. they call themselves "AI vampires" because they've stopped sleeping. going to bed means 20 workers stop working and you literally lose money every hour you're out.
17. the obvious next step: the bots will start running their own bots. one human in charge of 20 bots, each in charge of 20 more bots. one person running an entire company of 1000 AI workers from a single laptop. this is months away, not years.
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طاقاتها الصاعدة بزخم حاسم، و جيلها الجديد القادم من شبابها و شاباتها، خصوصًا جيل الألفية/Gen Z، المفعم بروح البناء والطموح، والمستلهم من قيادة جعلت المستحيل ممكنًا.
أكثر ما يمدني بالطاقة هذه الأيام؟
وقتي مع هذا الجيل الاستثنائي بكل المقاييس.
أمثلة سريعة من @Project1932 من أسابيع قليلة:
شاب سعودي يدرس في واحدة من أفضل الجامعات التقنية في العالم، و تطلبه اليوم كبرى شركات الذكاء الاصطناعي ليترك دراسته وينضم إليها كباحث في النماذج المتقدمة.
وآخر يعمل على تطوير نماذج قد تعيد تعريف أداء الرقائق الحاسوبية ورغم جاذبية عروض العمل التي تلقاها، لم ترقي للتحدي، لأن طموحه أكبر: أن يغيّر قطاع التصنيع من جذوره، بيده.
وثالث أسس شركة ذكاء اصطناعي مع زملائه السعوديين تجاوزت ايرادتها عشرات الملايين خلال أقل من عام و حصّلوا عروض استحواذ في بداية الطريق.
الثلاثة؟ بالكاد تجاوزوا العشرين.
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ليس بالكلام.
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بل البناء، والأثر، والمساهمة.
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تعزيزًا لدور الاستثمار الجريء في تسريع نمو الاقتصاد الرقمي؛ معالي المهندس عبدالله السواحه @aalswaha يزور STV، ويجتمع بالرئيس التنفيذي عبدالرحمن طرابزوني، لدعم خطط الشركة في تمويل شركات التقنية والذكاء الاصطناعي، والإسهام في تمكين رواد الأعمال، ونمو الشركات الناشئة، وخلق وظائف نوعية.
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I love this story.
First, Boom's jet engine supplier, Rolls Royce, pulls out of the supersonic airliner deal. That should have been the end of the story. As GE often says, "if you want to compete with us in jet turbines, you needed to have started 30 years ago", because that's how long it takes. So it would be crazy to start now.
But Boom didn't fold up tents. They said they were going to make their own jet turbine. Good luck 🙄
But they started anyway, and then "a miracle occurs": the AI datacenter boom creates unbounded demand for gas turbines, creating at least a 4-5 year backlog with existing manufacturers.
And because the Boom terrestrial turbine power plants don't have to be certified by the FAA, that takes a decade off their path to market!
So now 90% of the company is working on the turbines, with a huge pipeline of orders, and they're going to be a huge energy company, regardless of whether they ever ship an airplane or not.
What a great testament to resilience. Just keep moving forward and eventually the path will become clear. Action creates information.
الشريك المساعد لشركة " STV" يزيد التركي:
- مسيرة النمو وزخم السوق السعودي في الاستثمار الجريء ملحوظ عالميا بمعدل نمو سنوي يصل تقريبا إلى 44 % منذ بداية الحراك الاقتصادي
- رغم الزخم في المرحلة المبكرة لا تزال هناك فجوة تمويلية واضحة في مراحل النمو A وB ويحتاج السوق إلى تعزيز دعم الشركات في هذه المراحل
- الائتمان الخاص لا يزال في مراحله المبكرة في السعودية لكن معدل نموه مشجع وسريع أسرع من وتيرة نمو استثمارات الملكية
- الشركات المستعدة للطرح في السوق المالية من 2024 إلى 2026 موجودة بالفعل والعديد منها في مرحلة استعداد جدي للطرح قريبا
- هناك توجه جديد نحو الاستثمار في تقنيات الذكاء الاصطناعي ضمن الصناديق الحديثة إلى جانب القطاعات التقليدية مثل التقنية المالية والتجارة الإلكترونية
- النظرة طويلة الأمد لصناديقنا تمتد من 5 إلى 10 سنوات مع استمرار الاستثمار رغم القلق الجيوسياسي المؤقت
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