👋 I'm excited to unveil @airstreet’s second fund of $121,212,121 as we accelerate our mission to back ambitious AI-first companies in North America and Europe! 🧵 My reflections on the journey, opportunity and what this means for our founders and community:

just about a week til @londonai with @rosstaylor90 @Youssef_A_Mejj and 100 ai friends from ai labs, startups, big cos and universities a great opp to meet peers, learn some things and shop talk a lil join —> london(dot)ai

Today we’re announcing $106M in new funding led by Altimeter Capital and Bezos Expeditions. This brings our total to $150M to scale our frontier AI models which make biology programmable. Our frontier models have generated functional proteins (Nature Biotech, 2023), created the

news! @poolsideai has acquired @fern_labs, in which @airstreet was the first and sole investor - and a first investor into poolside as well. i met @ashedwardst in late 2024 before fern had a name or team. his technical depth, product taste and ambitious were 🔥 fern pushed

new on @airstreetpress: what works in natural language also works in protein engineering! we dive into @profluentbio latest open-source model called E1, which reads an input sequence plus its evolutionary neighbours to outperform ESM-2, ESM C, and PoET on protein design tasks

I’m joined by @nathanbenaich to discuss current trends and progress in AI, the commercial implications and geopolitical dynamics of the AI arms race, investment opportunities, and what industries, sectors, and professions may be most ripe for disruption. https://t.co/0NOjVRS2DD

Odyssey-2 is live! It’s instant, interactive AI video. You type a few words, hit “stream”, and video you can interact with is instantly imagined by AI. It's so fun, and feels like magic.

If you’re working in AI, you most likely saw the just-released 2025 State of AI Report from @nathanbenaich, Founder and General Partner at @airstreet. The annual report is a must-read deep dive into the state of the industry, with this year’s highlights including: reasoning going

Today, I’m delighted to announce @CloveFi, and our $14m pre-seed led by @Accel, with @Kindred_VC and @airstreet. It’s been 2 years since I left Paddle, and in that time, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about what’s next. Over the last 10+ years, I’ve always tried to imagine

🪩The one and only @stateofaireport 2025 is live! 🪩 It’s been a monumental 12 months for AI. Our 8th annual report is the most comprehensive it's ever been, covering what you *need* to know about research, industry, politics, safety and our new usage data. My highlight reel:

I'm excited for @airstreet to be allying with Jensen's leadership and the incredible NVIDIA team with @tobiashalloran on the ground to make the UK an AI superpower once and for all. I've long held the view that @nvidia is the most important AI company in the world and have said

🌍 Hiring World Engineers The era of toy problems in AI is coming to an end. In its place is an era of real-world consequences. We are hiring for our world engineering team. Our goal is to make rich environments that enable agents to build, invent and discover over long

news! @dealroomco analysed the activity and outcomes of more than 22k investors, looking deal-by-deal at each investor's ability to pick startups and support them to to power law outcomes i'm happy to see @airstreet hit the top 2.5% of investors in emea 😇 more coming!

We’ve raised $3.8 million to build the operating system for clinical trials, starting with patient recruitment. @delfa_ai is removing the biggest bottleneck to getting new drugs to market.

we are at a unique time in history when new defense primes are necessary to protect europe @delian_ai is quietly delivering next-generation systems at national scale to defend against autonomous weapons that dominate the modern battlefield 👋 @DimitriosKottas live on @CNBC

ai is generationally important technology today @profluentbio's work building frontier ai models to write the language of functional genome editors is published in @nature! they produce a synthetic crispr system that edits human dna and sharply reduces off-target effects 🧵

Today @airstreet @marathon_vc co-led a $14M Series A into defense AI co @delian_ai - more in @FT “It is very rare when there is a time when new primes are created,” said @DimitriosKottas. “If that window existed at any point over the last several decades, it would be now.