Gary Marcus

@GaryMarcus on X

Writes about AI and Revenue. 87% of posts open with an observation. A typical post reaches 323 likes.

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Posts: 15
Likes: 8.4K
Typical: 323
Best: 3.1K

What they write about

AI: 80%
Revenue: 20%

How they open

observation: 87%
number: 7%
question: 7%

Every post of theirs in the library

Gary Marcus@GaryMarcus

👉Softbank sells entire Nvidia position. 👉Oracle debt downgraded. 👉Meta financing games revealed. 👉OpenAI CEO @sama couldn’t explain how company would meet its $1.4 T obligations. 👉Coreweave drops 20% in a week. You do the math.

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Gary Marcus@GaryMarcus

“Open”AI dropped a 249 page paper on new math results but not one page is about how the model works, how the proofs were verified, what role if any humans played, whether any of the proposed proofs had errors, etc. What happened to science?

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Gary Marcus@GaryMarcus

Dear @OpenAI, not everybody who criticizes your decade-long history of shady practices has anything to do with @elonmusk. A lot of us just don’t like how you roll. Serving subpoenas on your critics is not cool.

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Gary Marcus@GaryMarcus

so do i have this right? the market is up on optimism about Microsoft’s revenue but MSFT’S biggest customer by far is burning billions a month with no obvious way to meet all of its future obligations. pretty hard to see how this is sustainable.

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Gary Marcus@GaryMarcus

When Karpathy sounds like Marcus, the gig is up: “Andrej Karpathy calls AI Agents slop "Overall, the models they are not there. And I feel like the industry [...] it's making too big of a jump and it's trying to pretend that this is amazing.””

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Gary Marcus@GaryMarcus

Wow. Elon really doesn’t get it. *his* company is basically a copy of OpenAI and Anthropic, more chatbots trained on internet-scale data with giant clusters. Bezos’s company is different, focused on domain-specific engineering problems. Makes a lot more sense to me, tbh.

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Gary Marcus@GaryMarcus

In vividly explaining how he deceived Musk about his commitment to the nonprofit, without a trace of remorse, OpenAI’s Brockman has done Musk’s counsel quite a service. Brockman’s also been pretty great about illustrating Musk’s contributions to the early years of the company.

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Gary Marcus@GaryMarcus

So, um, if I have this right, the world basically just paid for about 75 billion dollars for a tiny slice of an Elon Musk NFT, with a marginally profitable rocket company thrown in. How’s that gonna turn out?

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Gary Marcus@GaryMarcus

Can’t get GPT-5 to work? Don’t despair, you can always find a different way to invade people’s privacy and snatch people’s data: social media! Told you OpenAI was going to become a surveillance company.

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Gary Marcus@GaryMarcus

• At this point SpaceX just looks like CoreWeave with a bigger budget and a satellite company thrown in. • If they were anywhere near AGI they wouldn’t be leasing out so much capacity. • So much for there being a GPU shortage; just make a deal with Uncle Elon.

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Gary Marcus@GaryMarcus

I side with Elon in many of his concerns about OpenAI and have not ever taken a penny from him, and have no intention of doing so. As someone who is deeply critical of both OpenAI and Elon, I find the below to be deeply offensive.

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Gary Marcus@GaryMarcus

We are so far from GPT 5 that OpenAI just launched GPT-4.1, following last month’s release of GPT 4.5. Can’t make that up.

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Gary Marcus@GaryMarcus

Almost all these companies said they supported regulation for AI. Now that a modest amount of regulation in the US is possible, they all oppose it. Why should we trust anything these companies say?

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Gary Marcus@GaryMarcus

The race to shove AI into everything is grossly premature, because the tech fundamentally lack reliability. Meanwhile, the chance that we will get straight answers is probably close to zero. (Altman, for his part, doesn’t seem to care.)

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Gary Marcus@GaryMarcus

sure hope the government stands by @davidsacks’s promise that there will be no bailouts.* he is totally right that if OpenAI doesn’t make it that others will take their place. *backstopped loans ARE a form of bailout.

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