A disgrace to our values as a country and reputation as a military which one might choose to collaborate with,
This is so basic; I’m embarrassed for the UK. There really is no excuse for genuine candidates not to be automatically given the right to remain. thetimes.com/uk/defence/art…

'Most believe that LLMs are not where any money will be made, but...app layer.'
I don't think that is at all clear yet. As AI engines become exponentially smarter the need for an 'app' in the traditional sense actually begins to breakdown.
I belive the majority of today's GenAI

All UK parties are guilty of ruining our armed forces. National Service is not the way to fix them BUT I have supported the idea since I was a teenager. It’s an obvious way to rebuild a sense of national common purpose & should include non-military options bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Hello there Vaire Computing 👀 Rodolfo Rosini ✨☕️
app.dealroom.co/sector/tag/ai%…

Putin is spending 40% of GDP on defence and has 3.5 million people in the military industrial complex.
Europe and the UK didn't just deconstruct it's military forces after the Cold War, we destroyed our ability to build them.
Time we woke up by putting money where our mouth is.

This.

Well, that's pretty clear then.

Great to see One Silicon Chip Photonics featured in the world's 4 top #drone sensor startups
startus-insights.com/innovators-gui…

A goal of good humour may be a faster path to AGI (or at least, passing the Turing test) than others.
Humour is surely one of the harder things to master as it is so easy to get wrong. The output of LLMs/transformer models are ultimately a consequence of the input where as humour

I was on an advisory board with Charlie Songhurst. Exceptional focus on the human being when investing early. We did a pitch meeting with a founder and he spent 95% of the time asking about their background and life, not about the company.
Also an exceptional mind to go with it.

Worst thing that has happened to London in the last 5 years is the ubiquitous expansion of crap Martini glasses out of Shoreditch, into the real world. Give me a 🍸any day.

Last week, I provided a graphic description to my team (men) of my experience getting a mammogram. As I described my breast being maneuvered onto a plastic tray and then pressed in a vice so tight that I almost passed out, the guys jaws dropped, they looked stunned - followed by

I think >80% of the generative AI investment will be lost. GenAI #startups die each time OpenAI or another upgrade their capabilities.
There will be some big winners of course but we've avoided most application layer AI startups unless extremely differentiated. Data from

Question: What percentage of tech startups which get US venture capital funding have a UK or European topco instead of a Delaware of topco?
ChatGPT-4o thinks upto 15%. Dealroom.co or PitchBook disagree?

“Every startup is different”
Yes. The “ramen profitable” playbook popularised by Paul Graham doesn’t work for #deeptech and similar. But pretty sure PG says as much in his essays.

It’s only been 2 days since OpenAI revealed GPT-4o.

Users are uncovering incredible capabilities that completely change how we use and interact with AI.

The 12 most impressive use cases so far:

A few things that every Emerging Manager must have a good answer for when raising today:
1) Minimum Viable Fund size (min to make your strategy viable)
2) Enterprise value needed from thet portfolio to return a 3x NET. For seed funds, factor in at least 50% dilution.
3) Recycling

Who is working on this stuff with real ambition in UK/Europe?
We seem to be being left behind.