Mark Laursen is an advisor, founder, and executive producer with 25+ years building technology companies, gaming platforms, and entertainment products.https://marklaursen.com/https://marklaursen.com/blog/1-bit-llms-could-make-gpus-obsolete/https://marklaursen.com/blog/1-bit-llms-could-make-gpus-obsolete/Microsoft's BitNet matches full-precision LLMs at 12x less energy using ternary weights on a CPU. If 1-bit LLMs scale, NVIDIA's $3 trillion valuation is built on an assumption that may not hold. Here's why AMD and Intel aren't rushing in.Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://marklaursen.com/blog/why-your-multi-agent-ai-system-keeps-failing/https://marklaursen.com/blog/why-your-multi-agent-ai-system-keeps-failing/Multi-agent LLM systems fail 41-87% of the time. 79% of those failures come from coordination, not capability. Here is what the research says about building systems that actually work.Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://marklaursen.com/blog/ai-agents-need-governance-not-guardrails/https://marklaursen.com/blog/ai-agents-need-governance-not-guardrails/SDK wrappers are guardrails agents can bypass. Infrastructure-level governance — where agents never hold API keys — is the only real enforcement. Here's why.Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://marklaursen.com/blog/live-streaming-before-twitch/https://marklaursen.com/blog/live-streaming-before-twitch/In 2008, Nihilum partnered with Xfire and Dyyno to live stream World of Warcraft raids to 2,800 concurrent viewers — years before Twitch launched. Here's what happened.Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT