Brilliant appointment. Jade has done exceptional work in government through AISI, and with her background in VC and frontier AI from the very beginning, she’s exactly the sort of person you want helping the UK prepare for the AI era

Are you a UK AI academic that wants to be GPU rich this summer?

The Sovereign AI Unit has a call out for high ambition proposals in our core priority areas.

Apply by July 7th! www.gov.uk/government/p...

This from @tomwestgarth.bsky.social on the emerging "progress" scene makes for interesting reading – and includes a mention of our podcast!

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There is a growing community dedicated to unlocking U.K. progress and abundance.

Come to the next TxP to hear from organisations such as ARIA, Centre for British Progress, Nucleate, Inference Magazine, Digital Frontier, and Project Europe!
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Super appointment.

It’s great to see so many people from the startup world going into public service!
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This prompts an interesting discussion about how these tools may soon be cultural artifacts.

Things like BBC historical video archives aren’t just great for understanding evolving values, but changing production techniques etc. Will compute costs eat these cultural phenomena?

The next TxP will explode art as a space for AI R&D.

Panellists include Mat Dryhurst, Flora Weil, and Will Fraudenheim!

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Wondering if there are any DJs (especially female/non-binary DJs) in my tech policy network that would be interested in spinning some plates at the next TxP event. 🎧 🎶

Dm me if interested!

One of my favourite public speakers making such elegant observations about one of my favourite films.

I’d love for the BBC to commission Hannah Fry to do a 6 part series on AI in 2025.

She’s such an incredible science communicator, and now is the time for a big public dialogue on the technology.

And ultimately much of the work we wrote about is attempting to break away from a model of R&D that is hierarchical and target-driven.

First sc from NNP biotech, second sc from the first NNP

So Chinese company Deepseek released their latest frontier grade LLM.

Some astounding context worth repeating:
-They only used 2000 GPUs on a budget of around $6m. This level of capability requires normally around a 16k GPU cluster
-Deepseek is literally a project ran by a Chinese hedge fund!

Excellent post about the recent OpenAI o3 results on ARC (& other benchmarks). I don't know how @natolambert.bsky.social manages to write these so quickly! I highly recommend his newsletter.

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I am (more slowly) writing my own take on all this, coming soon.

Great discussion including @pahlkadot.bsky.social and @andrewgreenway.bsky.social on success stories in state capacity in the U.K.

One for the Bluesky Heads ™️ I think open.substack.com/pub/statecra...

Why is there a lot of disagreement amongst economists about AI productivity forecasts?

This article suggests differences in assumptions around speed of adoption, and if this adoption is concentrated to a small number of sectors.

I would greatly appreciate submissions and shares of this, to help us motivate funders to support open source toolmaking for academic science. 🙏

#neuroskyence #neuroscience #neuroai #chemsky #compchem #compbio #hpc #machinelearning #ai

Exciting initiative. Two relevant points:

1.) Gaps in tooling are seen as a key blocker to improved capabilities + adoption.
2.) Another example of philanthropic orgs backing AI for R&D.

This looks v interesting. The diffusion of technology is often constrained by poor software tools.

An under-explored policy question is how to create the right conditions/incentives for quality tools to be developed and scaled.