This is exciting. Excited to see what Kanishka Narayan MP will achieve in his new role!

Take a look at our BiTS UK cohort! The BiTS program is a talent accelerator program which trains researchers to develop visionary research programs through a structured 15 week program. It's been fun scaling this with multiple government partners.

An AI-driven robotic laboratory discovered 41 new compounds in 17 days

The end of August marked my final day on secondment – a ‘tour of duty’ into the UK government – where I helped with the delivery of the AI Opportunities Action Plan. It was the proudest work of my career. Here are the highlights from my time there 1/9🧵

Congrats to our grantees accelerating the discovery of AI tools for mathematics! A great example of how time-bound, thesis-driven philanthropic funds can advance fields. The ideas were so strong that XTX Markets doubled the fund size!

One coffee with Samuel Hughes, one meeting with Kane Emerson… suddenly there’s a new town on the map. Feeling pretty proud.

The London Stock Exchange is dying. We have dropped out of the top 20 IPO markets, falling behind Mexico. In 2006 London raised $51bn, this year it was $248m. A 99% decrease. Some thoughts on why this matters and how we change course 🧵

BIG Update: We're announcing our third govt partnership focused on enabling breakthrough R&D! Super excited to be opening our Japan Office and working with JST to bring the ARPA-model to Japan by training research visionaries and funding breakthrough science in climate tech.

We are building fast.

NEW: Today we release the results of the @britishprogress Growth Survey. We asked over 100 economists and experts what the Government needs to do to fix productivity and drive growth. Here’s what they said: 🧵

What’s the biggest threat to building AI in Britain? Turns out it’s our planning system We're in a global race, but we've made it almost impossible to build Our NEW REPORT for @britishprogress (in The Times and The Sunday Times w/ Max Kendix) is a plan to build quickly whilst protecting nature 🧵

Please apply for this fantastic role and send your reccs! Centre for British Progress gives me hope for turning the UK around. Just have a look at the quality of reports released in the last week to understand how great and implementation-ready the ideas are!

Heard from a company in London: We have found the UK visa sponsorship process to be excellent - we’ve sponsored several visas for super talented engineers. Process takes jut a couple of weeks and costs £5-10K. One of the advantages of building in London over US!

Agree with John Arnold. It is partly why we created Renaissance Philanthropy: to give donors additional ways to bet on science/tech outside of the 3 major options that exist today: (a) building a large expert foundation they oversee, (b) mega-gifts to universities, or (c) “decide later.”

Congratulations Lauren Gilbert on all that you achieved at RenPhil and excited for your next chapter!

We’re bringing the magic of Waymo to Londoners in 2026 💂🇬🇧

Just under one week left to apply! From Norbert Weiner's supper seminars to MIT's TMRC, breakthroughs often begin in spaces where people come together to discuss & develop incomplete yet potentially transformative ideas If you want to create your own such group, see below👇

On 30 Sep 2024, the UK closed its last coal plant. This was the day we should have ended carbon price support – an extra tax to get coal off the grid. In the Budget, Rachel Reeves has the chance to cut bills for millions + boost electrification, by ending CPS Here’s how:

Great to see Aaron, our resident astrophysicist @renphil21, get plaudits (and additional support) for the big-if-true program on low-cost telescopes that he is building with us.

you've heard about The Alan Turing Institute (~£30m/yr), but do you know the issues with the British Business Bank (£25b), the closest thing we have to a sovereign wealth fund? or how VC incentives costing £1b a year don't help scale or sovereignty? to fix this chart, we need to fix *them*: