I too feel this – we're directionally heading to the right place, but not fast enough and with not enough resources. Need to swing bigger. Feels like 10 years too late as everything was unfolding in our garden. UK is a key R&D lab of the world…it should be more. "Mr Sunak’s
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UK Government Lacks AI Computing Policy Expertise and Competence
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“We lack competence and confidence at the heart of government,” says one adviser. “The people who run compute policy in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology really just don’t understand it. They don’t understand the difference between general and specific
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NHS Data Mess Undermines DeepMind’s AI Ambitions
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"Data generated by public agencies should be the most appealing raw material for those working on AI. Unfortunately, they are too often a mess, including those within the NHS." – let's recall that DeepMind had the ambition to transform the NHS with AI, but years later all we got
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UK AI-Grade Cluster Essential for Deep Tech Ecosystem Growth
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Why do we need a large-scale AI-grade cluster in the UK? ‘Learning by doing’ and the compounding of process knowledge is key to having a vibrant deep tech ecosystem and the high value jobs and companies that come with it. – excellent point by @matthewclifford
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Britain’s AI Talent Drain and GPU Training Challenges
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Heavy hitting piece on "how to make Britain’s AI dreams reality" in @TheEconomist
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Deep Market Research Finds Massive Non-Obvious AI Opportunities
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My sense is that if you spend the time to deeply research a market, talk to customers and their current solutions (putative competitors) to find something that isn’t “1st order” / or demo’d on twitter (ie is esoteric but actually massive), a lot of these concerns/tips go away.
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Don’t Scale Without Product-Market Fit Signs
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I think it’s a tongue in cheeky snarky comment more than a rule – ofc if a model is your product, then you don’t have a choice. But don’t scale up before you have signs of the holy product market fit
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AI Research Dinner Explores Embodied Intelligence and Multi-Agent Systems
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Just wrapped up a heavy-hitting AI research dinner in London w/
@Sethwinterroth @EclipseVentures x @airstreet
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LLM Adoption Across Sequoia Portfolio Companies
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Quick one – when you say “Nearly every company in the Sequoia network is building language models into their products.” Do you refer to the entire Sequoia portfolio or the 33 companies you selected to sample, which I assume are those most likely to be in a spot where LLMs are