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Tomasz Tunguz is a General Partner at Theory Ventures, investing in AI-first startups. Former Google PM and Redpoint VC, he writes a daily data-driven blog on AI, SaaS metrics, and venture capital read by 150k+ founders and operators.

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News Tomasz Tunguz 3 months ago
Most AI Work Can Wait
Prioritize routing over model choice. Most AI work runs on cheap local models.
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News Tomasz Tunguz 4 months ago
When AI Costs More Than the Engineer
Anthropic spends 2.3x payroll on compute. Top software firms spend 0.4x. Three scenarios for where the rest of the market lands by 2029.
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News Tomasz Tunguz 4 months ago
The Golden Age of AI Applications
Three weekend developments - the Fable retraction, Satya's ecosystem thesis & Salesforce's $3.6B Fin acquisition - reveal why the moat has shifted from models to harnesses.
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News Tomasz Tunguz 4 months ago
Intelligence Per Dollar
Microsoft's MAI-Code-1-Flash matches Claude Haiku 4.5 on SWE-Bench Verified using a third of the tokens. The right metric for AI in production is intelligence per dollar, value per token spent.
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News Tomasz Tunguz 4 months ago
The AI Skepticism Map
Short interest in public AI stocks has risen modestly overall, but the pressure is concentrated in AI cloud and smaller software names.
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News tomtunguz.com 5 months ago
Skill Distillation
How a personal AI agent built on markdown skills lets a frontier model teach smaller, local models to do real work, without retraining.
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News Tomasz Tunguz 5 months ago
The Unsustainable Subsidy
Three years of LLM pricing data: flagship prices dropped, then flipped upward, while budget models bounced back. Tokenizer efficiency softened the headline, but real costs are rising.
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News tomtunguz.com 5 months ago
Localmaxxing
About half of agent tasks can run on a local 35B model. The real advantage isn't cost or privacy - it's latency. 2.1x faster means more iteration cycles per session.
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News tomtunguz.com 5 months ago
AI at Discount
Anthropic trades at 17x EV/NTM on 165% growth, a 65% discount to Palantir. Capital intensity, profitability uncertainty & growth volatility explain the gap.
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News Tomasz Tunguz 5 months ago
Optimizing Software Factories
As engineering teams shrink and AI agents multiply, key-person risk becomes existential. The ratio you choose determines your team's shape and its fragility.
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