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“Nothing will ever be the same again”
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Incredible. DeepMind has basically solved protein folding. Congratulations to
@demishassabis
and the
#AlphaFold
team. I am genuinely in awe.
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2024 is the year for founders to get serious. Too much founder talent is wasted on things that ultimately don't matter. We need the best founders to focus on energy, medicine, environment, defence, robotics, elderly care etc.
If you're considering starting yet another SaaS,
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Germany is now conducting 500k corona tests per week.
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Talking Europe down seems to be the new thing. Loudest voices are inevitably those who don’t build anything. Tedious.
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Why is
@bbcnickrobinson
using words like “treason”, “traitor” and “betrayal” with so much relish? This is not a game, and you should stop normalising this kind of language.
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Metaculus now predicts AGI in 2028 (was 2035 just recently). From Matt Clifford’s excellent newsletter:
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After only nine months, we now have three effective vaccines against SARS-CoV-2. Incredible. Should fill us all with pride and admiration.
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My Twitter is full of hyperventilating 30-something VCs giving patronising advice to founders. What happened.
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The UK’s tackling of AI safety is now in a different league to most other countries (many of which don’t even have it on their radar yet). We should be grateful this is being taken so seriously.
1/ 11 weeks ago I agreed to Chair the UK's efforts to accelerate state capacity in AI Safety - measuring and mitigating the risks of frontier models so we can safety capture their opportunities. Here is our first progress report:
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I wish people stopped saying Zoom has a great UI/UX. It's horrendous.
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@AppStoreGames
In
#DawnOfTitans
we wanted to bring cinematic experiences to the action strategy genre…
#AppStoreChat
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@AppStoreGames
Quick tip, whenever you see a fire it means someone is attacking you in real time…
#DawnOfTitans
#AppStoreChat
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Wayve is likely the new world leader in autonomous driving. Made in Europe.
This video is a first look at Lingo-2, an AI simultaneously chatting and autonomously driving through busy central London. This is not a LLM strapped to our driving AI, rather an AI model jointly trained on vision, language and action. 💬🚗
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Very proud that Apple chose CSR 2 to illustrate awesome performance of new 9.7-inch iPad Pro at today's event.
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Excited to be at Apple Store Regent St with D Coulthard
@therealdcf1
tomorrow, 7pm. Talking about racing and
@RED
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Dominic Grieve clearly uncomfortable voting against gvt, but upholding principle of parliamentary democracy more important. Whatever views on Brexit, this is reassuring.
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European founders need to think bigger. Our 26 unicorns vs US' 109 is due to lack of ambition, not environment.
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Important message for European founders.
For every founder that successfully exits, the most common feeling afterwards is that it was pure luck and that this will be the most amount of money they’ll ever make from a product they start from scratch.
So they fall back on their newfound credibility in their industry to do
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DeepMind’s work on creative coding makes 2022 feel like 2040. This shouldn’t work so well, so early on. Implications are huge. Like AlphaFold, it’s basically science fiction, and a real game-changer.
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A new European fusion company is born: Proxima Fusion, spun-out of Germany's Max-Planck-Institute for Plasma Physics. Excited to partner with
@soundboy
,
@pluralplatform
, and
@UVC_Partners
to invest in this world-class team.
1/ I’m very excited to announce that
@pluralplatform
and UVC Partners are going to be co-leading a €7m seed round for Proxima Fusion, the first ever spin out from the Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics:
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@HarryStebbings
IMO it’s none of these. Exited European founders need to start next company, not retire or become VCs.
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This thread by Eric Topol will give you goosebumps. Speed of progress in ML-powered synthetic biology is staggering. Likely more impactful than computer vision. (Thanks
@NathanBenaich
)
What happens when you combine
#AI
prediction fo protein structure and synthetic biology?
1. Neural nets to do this are zooming ahead
—
@CellSystemsCP
by
@MoAlQuraishi
@harvardmed
—
@NatureNews
by
@Silverjacket
re:
@DeepMindAI
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@DeepMindAI
Perfect time to try out some biologically-inspired RNNs and genetic algorithms. This worked 16 years ago. Evolution of full walking in <1h, on a Pentium III.
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We are incredibly proud to be part of the
@AppStore
@RED
campaign to
#endAIDS
. Go get your
@Bugatti
Chiron RED in
@CSRRacing
now!
Join
@RED
’s fight to
#endAIDS
.
Every
#GamesForRED
item you buy benefits the Global Fund. Ends 12/6. See them all:
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This new Mary-Meeker-style AI report by
@NathanBenaich
and
@soundboy
is outstanding. And the prediction slide at the end is fascinating and worrying:
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Massive achievement by Alex and the Wayve team. The UK is a great place to build game-changing companies 🚀
Today is a significant milestone for
@wayve_ai
, as we proudly announce our $1.05 billion Series C from
@SoftBank_Group
,
@Microsoft
and
@nvidia
. Since the start we've held a contrarian belief that end-to-end AI will make autonomy possible. I'm excited about this massive
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Self-driving car start-up
@_FiveAI
is assembling a rock star team for its simulation division:
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BS
My European colleagues: Out of Office since Dec 1 at Christmas parties- it'll have to wait until February.
My US colleagues: You have 20 mins to fill in this when2meet for a 30 person meeting on 24th December
😭😭
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UK’s plans for large-scale state aid for deep tech will seem prescient in a few years. EU should review its current restrictive policy too. AI, semiconductors, batteries, defence etc. are fundamental to European sovereignty.
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I have only good things to say about Nvidia - they were a great and supportive shareholder in my company NaturalMotion. But the ARM acquisition is yet another wake-up call for Europe. If you know of a credible RISC-V team in Europe, please DM.
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Nathan deserves a lot of credit for tirelessly driving this policy reform. Potentially transformative result for UK spin-out ecosystem. Credit also to UK government for listening and acting.
Today’s review marks a huge step forward for UK spinout founders 🇬🇧
It adopts almost all of the policy reform proposals I made via
@spinoutfyi
and have been pushing on for 2 years.
A few thoughts on why this is a big day for the ecosystem and UK science&tech below:
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Packed venue as
@_FiveAI
CEO
@stanboland
is revealing our autonomous cars in London!
#FiveAIShowcase
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@AppStoreGames
Thanks, it’s been a lot of fun! Looking forward to seeing everyone on the battlefield. Download here
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Spot the date Instagram was launched
This is terifying.
The # of teenage depression basically doubled in the last 15 years to reach 15% of the population.
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The “EU regulation” narrative has become the go-to excuse for underperforming founders, judging from the replies below.
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@afneil
FWIW there was little glee in Germany when the UK was in a tough spot with covid last year, and there’s genuine admiration for the UK’s vaccination success now. Hard not to sense a certain degree of schadenfreude in your tweet.
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This new report is a must-read for anyone in deep tech, AI and politics. It’s outstanding.
Here it is, the 2019 State of AI Report by
@NathanBenaich
and me. 130 slides covering the most important machine learning research, industry and political developments over the past 12 months. New section on China. Please RT if you find interesting!
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@afneil
Eurozone average is 1.9%, so UK has slipped below that. Still not sick, but trend not good.
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Your company’s actions have led to the electorate’s crass desensitisation to conspiracy theories and radicalism, and ultimately to Trump’s 2016 victory,
@nick_clegg
. So please spare us your hypocrisy.
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Hard to be cynical about the metaverse after this. Incredible progress by Meta.
Here's my conversation with Mark Zuckerberg, his 3rd time on the podcast, but this time we talked in the Metaverse as photorealistic avatars. This was one of the most incredible experiences of my life. It really felt like we were talking in-person, but we were miles apart 🤯 It's
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@afneil
Wrong. Looks very different if you use the correct comparison (Direktmandate or “direct seats”). Grey/black: CDU, red: SPD, blue CSU:
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Simple answers are rarely right. But the one and only reason why the US is in this sorry state is: Facebook.
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The perseverance of Berliners in keeping this joke going is nothing but astonishing.
#nevergiveup
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Plural is the type of VC Europe needs. Congratulations to
@soundboy
@KHelioui
and team. Shows it’s possible to attract LPs with a relentless focus on integrity and companies that matter.
1/ 18 months into
@pluralplatform
, we’ve raised a new €400M fund. This is an endorsement of the first 26 teams we’ve backed and the level of ambition now emerging from Europe:
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Totally agree. We also forget that "best practice" (don't do a rebrand as-you-go) is only one approach to business. Many outlier entrepreneurs have individual styles that only work for them, in their circumstances, with their experience, team etc.
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No it’s not. Europe’s problem is lack of aggressive founders, not regulation.
The WHOLE European tech ecosystem is deeply worried about the innovation-killer aspect of the new 🇪🇺 AI Act
@ki_verband
@HubFranceIA
@CroAI_org
@utum_muc
@JonasAndrulis
@Laurent_Daudet
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Great to see ML community rediscover evolutionary algorithms. Much simpler than RL and probably more powerful:
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Web3’s lack of product-market fit is extraordinary. Any innocent use-case question seemingly enough to rattle evangelists. So weird.
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@erikbryn
Many radiologists left the field during covid, hence the surge. And AI adoption has been slow for regulatory and cultural reasons. Probably not a good predictor for other job types.
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This, by
@rabois
, is gold. Ignore The Lean Startup if you want to build something meaningful.
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If 2000 is anything to go by, we’ll now see one last wave of market exuberance, followed by a massive correction. Tesla probably most affected.
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Boss move
This is huge: Llama-v2 is open source, with a license that authorizes commercial use!
This is going to change the landscape of the LLM market.
Llama-v2 is available on Microsoft Azure and will be available on AWS, Hugging Face and other providers
Pretrained and fine-tuned
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100% agree.
It's time for schools to teach Python, not Java, as their main intro to computer science. Along with being easier to learn and *actually* able to run anywhere on anything (like Basic back in the day), it's the dominant language of AI and computer vision
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Long on Europe.
1/ Last year I co-lead the first funding round for Proxima Fusion. I wrote here about how Germany has quietly become the global leader in a category of fusion - stellarators . Great to see
@johnthornhillft
highlighting the opportunity for Germany & Europe.
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Thank you, Harry. Thrilled to be working with such an amazing team.
This is a mic drop moment for European tech.
Europe has the ability to create generational defining companies.
@torstenreil
is doing so and could not have found better, more aligned partners than
@eldsjal
@shak
.
To the next chapter! 🚀
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@BrexitCentral
Roasted coffee from the poorest nations does not have duty applied. Please stop repeating this lie,
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
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Highly recommended reading for anyone in AI!
I just published "Your guide to AI in Q1 2018" covering the important themes in the technology industry, research lab and venture capital market. Check it out below 👇
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Beautiful peak of conventional graphics pipeline. Will all be replaced by neural rendering.
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OpenAI/MS were reckless with release of GPT-4 and plug-ins. Likely triggered Prisoners-Dilemma runaway train to AGI. Impact still massively underestimated.
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This is beautifully written, but argues - wrongly IMO - that Merkel felt only limited agency to change the course of future events. More likely, it was a deep disdain for use of (even defensive) force that made her try to contain Putin in other ways.
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@JeremyCliffe
@yanisvaroufakis
I liked
@yanisvaroufakis
until I read his books. Constantly absolving yourself of accountability is not an endearing quality in a politician.
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Acerbic Gizmodo review of
@magicleap
, but hits on a general AR issue: inserting digital 3D objects into the real world has almost no uses 1/
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Can we please all stop saying "superpowers" when we mean "skills"?
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@afneil
Why delusional? Eccentric delivery, but he seems to be arguing for a two-speed EU. Perfectly sensible.
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Great piece by Josh Wolfe on SV rediscovering its roots. Liberal democracies have fundamental advantage over China and Russia in next-gen defence: bottom-up creativity beats top-down micromanagement.
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John Humphrys mocking Macron’s English on
@BBCr4today
reflects rather badly on him. How is your French, John?
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@afneil
Can you please compare total doses administered? As you know, Germany keeps insisting on early second vaccination.
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Go UK 🇬🇧!!
Wayve, a U.K.-born startup developing a Tesla-like self-learning rather than rule-based system for autonomous driving, has closed $1.05 billion in Series C funding led by SoftBank Group. This is the U.K.’s largest AI fundraise ever.
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Thank you for supporting us from the very beginning, Matt.
A great moment for European tech: the brilliant
@torstenreil
partnering with the legendary
@eldsjal
to build what promises to be an iconic, important company. Delighted to be a (tiny) part of it
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AI has become central to the new great power competition, neatly following
@soundboy
's predictions from 2018 (AI nationalism). The UK and Europe must avoid becoming powerless "technology takers" (
@matthewclifford
)
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In new defence, procurement is the problem, not funding. Great thread from
@nathanbenaich
$ invested into European defense startups - bar rare exceptions such as Helsing - massively lags the US.
While ESG is likely one investment impediment that VCs inherit from certain LPs, I would argue it is by far not the major culprit.
The main reason is PROCUREMENT. 🧵
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Photorealistic virtual stunts with
@NMGames
endorphin software.
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Encouraging results for Oxford’s Covid-19 vaccine. Fingers crossed for ongoing human clinical trials with 1,000 volunteers. If all goes well, vaccine may be ready much earlier than widely assumed. Amazing work by all teams involved.
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Innovation comes from start-ups. EU should encourage ambitious founders to enter this space. V little else matters.
✍️The EU and its member states need to do much more in defence
#innovation
.
🆕blog post from Head of Agency - HR/VP
@JosepBorrellF
👇
#EUdefence
|
#EDAconf21
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Open-sourcing LLMs enables more model-safety scrutiny, but it also enables nefarious use (such as large-scale misinformation and election manipulation). Cost/benefit calc is not at all clear cut.
Interesting to see
@Meta
release Llama 2 as open source. Very shrewd. I 100% agree w Zuck (
@finkd
) that open source makes the model way safer (vs proprietary). Was surprised to hear
@reidhoffman
take the opposite POV recently. Open source unquestionably safer. Think Linux.
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IMO
@soundboy
is a role model of channeling optimism and positivity to help solve a large problem. May this positive energy spread across the ecosystem!
24/ The German government who has provided the funding for the Wendelstein series of stellarators deserves enormous credit as does the exceptional team of engineers and scientists who achieved these breakthroughs. Truly an entrepreneurial state! cc
@MazzucatoM
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