Ai Geek , Proud Husband, Father of 2. Libertarian.
Montréal, Québec
Joined March 2008
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Fred Fortin retweeted
Retired Navy fighter pilot provides his take on the Learjet crash
He states clearly that this was not a missle, it was not a plane shot down, just turbulance and icing are the likely cause of the crash
Fred Fortin retweeted
‼️NEW: Canada just dropped up to $1.6 billion of taxpayer cash on one of the worst-performing AI labs in the world.
- Cohere’s top model sits at #210 on the LMArena leaderboard...
The compute gap is brutal:
- Cohere: 8,500 GPUs vs xAI who is ramping up to 1.21 MILLION chips.
Cohere’s systems are 50–200× smaller than the frontier labs.
Another flop. Its the Lyon electric of AI.
Fred Fortin retweeted
just remember: less than .01% of the population is using ai in a meaningful way.
we are still so early
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Ok, I'll bite. I grew up in Montreal and I want Canada to win in AI. I'm just not sure if this is actually good for Canadian AI industry/startup ecosystem.
- idk how canada as the lead investor is a good thing/signal for the canadian ecosystem.
- It tells young founders the way to win here is to get close to Ottawa.
- When the government owns part of a company, every other Canadian AI startup is now competing with a company their own government owns.
- "We're not American" works as a pitch in almost every country except the biggest market in the world. Would love to see more Canadian startups be #1 globally like how Shopify is a great model.
- How Canadian is the "Canadian champion" after a German retailer leads the round and it merges with a German company?
- Does "sovereign" mean the models are built in Canada, or just hosted there?
- Why share 165% ARR growth but not what the ARR actually is?
- What does the government’s stake come with, like a board seat or a say in decisions?
Congrats on the round, its massive but just thinking about the Canadian ecosystem and what's best for it
Fred Fortin retweeted
So many people looking for work on LinkedIn.
Just looked it up... 220 million+ using “Open to Work," up 35% since January.
hard market.
Fred Fortin retweeted
Canadians Are Running Out Of Time To Oppose The Dangerous C-22 Surveillance Bill
eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/ca…
Fred Fortin retweeted
Tesla met au point un modèle spécial destiné à être déployé à Montréal et Québec.
Fred Fortin retweeted
AI was supposed to make us work less
I've never been this tired in my life
most days I have up to 10 agents running at the same time. one fixing a bug, one writing pages, one refactoring something I already forgot I asked for, 3 other I have no idea what they are doing but i suppose i ask it?
and I jump from conversation to conversation all day
compared to 5 years ago, I probably context switch 100x more
by the end of the day my brain is fried. completely toasted. nothing left, not even for the people I love
I call it the fried brain effect
thought it was just me but almost every founder I talk to lately says the exact same thing
we got superpowers, and somehow the pressure only went up. if you can ship 10x more, you feel like you have to ship 10x more. every single day
I don't have a solution
honestly I have no idea where this goes from here
anyone else feeling this?
