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100,000 HX-2 strike drones would deter a land invasion of Europe once and for all.
@HelsingAI stands ready to produce them.
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“A continent with over 500 million people must not be bullied around.” For a strong Europe 🇪🇺 🇬🇧
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Incredible. DeepMind has basically solved protein folding. Congratulations to @demishassabis and the #AlphaFold team. I am genuinely in awe. nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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Excited for @isaraerospace 🇪🇺 🚀
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I don’t think people are fully appreciating how big a deal the German €1 trillion+ investment offensive is. It will act as a giant fiscal stimulus to the county’s economy, upgrade its infrastructure, and transform its defence capabilities. Debt-to-GDP will rise from 62% to 80% so remain manageable. Big positive growth implications for 🇪🇺
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Introducing Lura and SG-1 Fathom. Our underwater constellation of hundreds of AI gliders to monitor the deep seas against threats.
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Lovable is now the fastest-growing software company ever. Congrats @antonosika and team! Believe in Europe 🇪🇺
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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, generic GenAI or "Powerpoint-killer" company, please stop. Work on something that matters. We need you.
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Time to go big 🚀
Great to see Proxima Fusion's stellarator as the cover image for this important call for European urgency by @johnthornhillft
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Germany is now conducting 500k corona tests per week. spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mens…
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Believe in Europe ❤️
“AC this, wash dryer that, US woohoo, EU boohoo” - Why are we eating this brand-warfare from the outside about us up?
Europe has the strongest precision manufacturing in the world, we have leading teams in AI, CV, robotics. Europe is a leader in Automation and Frontier Tech!
Not a single NVIDIA chip could be produced without European machines. Not a single American cloud, robotics, or deep-tech firm would operate without European manufacturing or suppliers.
But we are too humble. Brainwashed to never celebrate Europe. By outsiders and our local politicians.
Time for a change.
Europe is the birthplace of industrialization.
The home of frontier tech.
Time, we act like it.
Welcome to the real Europe! 🔥🇪🇺
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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: tib.matthewclifford.com/issu…
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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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I sat down with the legendary @HarryStebbings to talk about @HelsingAI and the need for new defence to keep our democracies safe.
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Big news - FAIR's @AntoineBordes is joining Helsing as VP Artificial Intelligence. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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My Twitter is full of hyperventilating 30-something VCs giving patronising advice to founders. What happened.
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Europe - stand up tall. Thank you, @soundboy ft.com/content/e3e23aea-eb4d…
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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: gov.uk/government/publicatio…
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In #DawnOfTitans we wanted to bring cinematic experiences to the action strategy genre… #AppStoreChat
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Europe's great founders must unretire
Europe's best founders retire too early.
While successful American CEOs take on increasingly ambitious projects, many great European entrepreneurs tap out long before they've lost their touch. Why?
@torstenreil and I unpack in our latest piece.
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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 apple.com/uk/retail/regentst…
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There will be no humans on future battlefields. Not even superhumans.
The future of warfare.
"Anyone who's making contact with the enemy is going to have superhuman augmented vision that allows them to never miss anything. You have extraordinary superhuman hearing."
"You're able to mark targets in the environment without projecting anything in the environment. You can seamlessly see in your heads-up display where all of your friends are, where all of the innocents and noncombatants are, and have that all just seamlessly presented to you as if you're Superman. You can see through walls. You can see through night. You can see through fog. You are Superman."
@PalmerLuckey
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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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The beautiful @McLarenAuto P1 in CSR 2: piped.video/8G0RFAc5S_U And for real: piped.video/qg49CZTIY_M
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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: ianhogarth.com/blog/2023/5/2…
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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 seemingly lower risk things: investing, content creation—like newsletters & podcasts, and taking well paid exec roles at mature companies. And they will justify it to others by either saying it’s less stressful than doing it again or that they’re “scaling themselves out.”
However, while luck certainly played a part in their success, they still are probably the best in their respective field. Not only would it be more fun, rewarding and easier if they tried to do it again, but they are most likely to succeed at it compared to anyone else. Overcoming that doubt is the only thing stopping them.
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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. deepmind.com/blog/article/Co…
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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
—cell.com/cell-systems/fullte… @CellSystemsCP by @MoAlQuraishi @harvardmed
—nature.com/articles/d41586-0… @NatureNews by @Silverjacket re: @DeepMindAI
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IMO it’s none of these. Exited European founders need to start next company, not retire or become VCs.
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European founders need to think bigger. Our 26 unicorns vs US' 109 is due to lack of ambition, not environment. cnnmoney.ch/shows/tech-talk/…
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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: apple.co/GamesForRED
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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: stateof.ai
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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 endorsement of our vision and the opportunity to launch our first Embodied AI product for automotive.
Here's our full press release: wayve.ai/press/series-c/
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Spotify and @eldsjal casually resetting benchmark for European entrepreneurs.
640m MAUs, 252m paying subscribers, double digit revenue growth to get to c. €4bn quarterly Revenue while expanding margins. @Spotify is about to become the first European startup of this generation to make it as a $100bn+ publicly traded company. A green beacon of light amidst tired European doomerism
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Only about 8% of the German working population are entrepreneurs, so 7% of MdBs is not a massive underrepresentation.
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Self-driving car start-up @_FiveAI is assembling a rock star team for its simulation division: google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.busin…
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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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Very proud day for @NMGames. CSR2 is out today!
CSR2 is here! Download now to start racing! nmgam.es/PlayCSR2_TW
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Haven’t you just given that accolade to the AMG S63? piped.video/9dbT6yGT7bQ
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Rock&roll!
If your first launch didn’t look like this you never dared enough.
🔥🚀
Kudos @danielmetzler & team
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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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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. ft.com/content/2d05651b-9e00…
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Packed venue as @_FiveAI CEO @stanboland is revealing our autonomous cars in London! #FiveAIShowcase
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Thanks, it’s been a lot of fun! Looking forward to seeing everyone on the battlefield. Download here bit.ly/2h8SoM6
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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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The perseverance of Berliners in keeping this joke going is nothing but astonishing. #nevergiveup
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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! stateof.ai/
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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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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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Great to see ML community rediscover evolutionary algorithms. Much simpler than RL and probably more powerful: arxiv.org/pdf/1802.08842.pdf
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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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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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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 hard to put into words how awesome this was for someone like me who values the intimacy of in-person conversation. It gave me a glimpse of an exciting future with many new possibilities and fascinating questions about the nature of reality and human connection ❤
Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
0:52 - Metaverse
15:27 - Quest 3
30:16 - Nature of reality
34:54 - AI in the Metaverse
51:51 - Large language models
57:49 - Future of humanity
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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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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 progress from @wayve_ai is seriously impressive. Will be global self-driving frontrunner, based in UK/Europe.
I recently had the chance to test drive—or test ride, I guess—one of @wayve_ai’s autonomous vehicles. It was a pretty wild ride: gatesnot.es/3TRF3ru
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Hard to imagine an investment team with more integrity and operational nous. Congrats @soundboy @KHelioui @taveet @seikatsu techcrunch.com/2022/06/27/th…
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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: techcrunch.com/2024/01/22/pl…
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I learnt how to program because of Richard Dawkins’ biomorphs.
Thanks for helpful advice. Btw, ageists, I may be old but, before I gave up coding addiction I was fluent in 2 machine codes, wrote a word processor, digital simulation of analogue computer, “Dawkins Organ”, cricket song, etc. + Blind Watchmaker Biomorphs commercially marketed.
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Spot-on by @nathanbenaich, calling for digital transformation of European defence.
My case for European Dynamism 🇪🇺
More to come 🫡
ft.com/content/2bb42436-c85f…
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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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Each glider runs our Lura large acoustic model (LAM), capable of detecting threats 10x quieter than SOTA.
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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 models are available with 7B, 13B and 70B parameters.
Llama-2 website: ai.meta.com/llama/
Llama-2 paper: ai.meta.com/research/publica…
A number of personalities from industry and academia have endorsed our open source approach: about.fb.com/news/2023/07/ll…
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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.
TTI
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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
economist.com/science-and-te…
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In #DawnOfTitans the Titans are the stars of our game… #AppStoreChat
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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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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 ianhogarth.com/blog/2023/5/2…. Great to see @johnthornhillft highlighting the opportunity for Germany & Europe.
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Packed @LDN_AI event tonight with amazing speakers. AI + life sciences = rock’n’roll.
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This, by @rabois, is gold. Ignore The Lean Startup if you want to build something meaningful.
link.medium.com/HVw4xfagi0
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