Three highlight from the AI summit:
– Emmanuel Macron ‘s « Plug, baby, plug » and $109B investment plan. Let’s scale AI infrastructures now!
– JD Vance’s call to « embark on the AI revolution before us with the spirit of openness and collaboration » pushing the frontier of what
INVESTMENT
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Macron and Vance Champion AI Infrastructure Investment and Collaboration
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How to Secure Investor Agreement on Company Valuation
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How did you get investors to agree to an valuation? Impressive.
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15 Most Capital-Efficient Startups: Deel, Benchling, Gusto Lead
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Also, the 15 most capital-efficient. @deel
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Compute replaces data as critical AI bottleneck for US dominance
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I would replace 2) with compute. As we hit the wall on human data, compute becomes even more important for RL. And in many ways compute is analogous to synthetic ‘data’ – which takes us to 3) where the US has all the ‘full stack’ players who control and distribute 2. Compute
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The 15 Most Valuable Y Combinator Companies Yet to IPO
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The 15 most valuable @ycombinator companies that have yet to IPO
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Microsoft’s Failure to Recognize Cutting Edge Innovation
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I still remember watching this and dumping all my Microsoft stocks.
— Satya Mallick (@LearnOpenCV) 12 février 2025
It’s one thing to not innovate. It’s a different level to see cutting edge innovation and dismiss it. https://t.co/ylWhICsTiAI still remember watching this and dumping all my Microsoft stocks. It’s one thing to not innovate. It’s a different level to see cutting edge innovation and dismiss it.
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German Eurocrat Announces €200bn AI Investment Plan
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She must have seen the singularity, how else do you explain a German Eurocrat coming out with €200bn for AI?
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B2C Startups Struggle to Scale into Major Companies
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The issue is that very few B2C startups have turned into big companies over the last decade. Doesn't mean more won't, but rate of success has been super super low.
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France Secures €109bn for AI Data Centres UK Lags
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As France secures €109 bn to build data centres to power AI, let's see how the UK compares. TD'LR: It's depressing. Britain once had two major energy advantages: 1) North Sea oil 2) Nuclear leadership
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Industrial Intelligence: The AI Infrastructure Build-Out Race
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Reflections on #AISummitParis The AI Infrastructure Build-Out We are witnessing the birth of Industrial Intelligence—a shift that demands an entirely new type of infrastructure. We’re in the build-out phase—constructing the industrial backbone of the AI economy. A race