Torsten Reil
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100,000 HX-2 strike drones would deter a land invasion of Europe once and for all. @HelsingAI stands ready to produce them.
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“A continent with over 500 million people must not be bullied around.” For a strong Europe 🇪🇺 🇬🇧.
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“Nothing will ever be the same again”.
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Incredible. DeepMind has basically solved protein folding. Congratulations to @demishassabis and the #AlphaFold team. I am genuinely in awe.
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I don’t think people are fully appreciating how big a deal the German €1 trillion+ investment offensive is. It will act as a giant fiscal stimulus to the county’s economy, upgrade its infrastructure, and transform its defence capabilities. Debt-to-GDP will rise from 62% to 80%.
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Introducing Lura and SG-1 Fathom. Our underwater constellation of hundreds of AI gliders to monitor the deep seas against threats.
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2024 is the year for founders to get serious. Too much founder talent is wasted on things that ultimately don't matter. We need the best founders to focus on energy, medicine, environment, defence, robotics, elderly care etc. If you're considering starting yet another SaaS,.
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Galvanising 🇪🇺.
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Time to go big 🚀.
Great to see Proxima Fusion's stellarator as the cover image for this important call for European urgency by @johnthornhillft
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Talking Europe down seems to be the new thing. Loudest voices are inevitably those who don’t build anything. Tedious.
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Why is @bbcnickrobinson using words like “treason”, “traitor” and “betrayal” with so much relish? This is not a game, and you should stop normalising this kind of language.
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Metaculus now predicts AGI in 2028 (was 2035 just recently). From Matt Clifford’s excellent newsletter:
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After only nine months, we now have three effective vaccines against SARS-CoV-2. Incredible. Should fill us all with pride and admiration.
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I sat down with the legendary @HarryStebbings to talk about @HelsingAI and the need for new defence to keep our democracies safe.
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My Twitter is full of hyperventilating 30-something VCs giving patronising advice to founders. What happened.
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The UK’s tackling of AI safety is now in a different league to most other countries (many of which don’t even have it on their radar yet). We should be grateful this is being taken so seriously.
1/ 11 weeks ago I agreed to Chair the UK's efforts to accelerate state capacity in AI Safety - measuring and mitigating the risks of frontier models so we can safety capture their opportunities. Here is our first progress report:
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@AppStoreGames In #DawnOfTitans we wanted to bring cinematic experiences to the action strategy genre… #AppStoreChat
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I wish people stopped saying Zoom has a great UI/UX. It's horrendous.
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@AppStoreGames Quick tip, whenever you see a fire it means someone is attacking you in real time…#DawnOfTitans #AppStoreChat
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Wayve is likely the new world leader in autonomous driving. Made in Europe.
This video is a first look at Lingo-2, an AI simultaneously chatting and autonomously driving through busy central London. This is not a LLM strapped to our driving AI, rather an AI model jointly trained on vision, language and action. 💬🚗.
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Excited to be at Apple Store Regent St with D Coulthard @therealdcf1 tomorrow, 7pm. Talking about racing and @RED
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Very proud that Apple chose CSR 2 to illustrate awesome performance of new 9.7-inch iPad Pro at today's event.
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There will be no humans on future battlefields. Not even superhumans.
The future of warfare. "Anyone who's making contact with the enemy is going to have superhuman augmented vision that allows them to never miss anything. You have extraordinary superhuman hearing.". "You're able to mark targets in the environment without projecting anything in
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Dominic Grieve clearly uncomfortable voting against gvt, but upholding principle of parliamentary democracy more important. Whatever views on Brexit, this is reassuring.
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DeepMind’s work on creative coding makes 2022 feel like 2040. This shouldn’t work so well, so early on. Implications are huge. Like AlphaFold, it’s basically science fiction, and a real game-changer.
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A new European fusion company is born: Proxima Fusion, spun-out of Germany's Max-Planck-Institute for Plasma Physics. Excited to partner with @soundboy, @pluralplatform, and @UVC_Partners to invest in this world-class team.
1/ I’m very excited to announce that @pluralplatform and UVC Partners are going to be co-leading a €7m seed round for Proxima Fusion, the first ever spin out from the Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics:
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Important message for European founders.
For every founder that successfully exits, the most common feeling afterwards is that it was pure luck and that this will be the most amount of money they’ll ever make from a product they start from scratch. So they fall back on their newfound credibility in their industry to do.
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The beautiful @McLarenAuto P1 in CSR 2: http://t.co/2ewxRh9FDD And for real: http://t.co/2PhrKFBl61.
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@HarryStebbings IMO it’s none of these. Exited European founders need to start next company, not retire or become VCs.
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This thread by Eric Topol will give you goosebumps. Speed of progress in ML-powered synthetic biology is staggering. Likely more impactful than computer vision. (Thanks @NathanBenaich).
What happens when you combine #AI prediction fo protein structure and synthetic biology?.1. Neural nets to do this are zooming ahead .—@CellSystemsCP by @MoAlQuraishi @harvardmed .—@NatureNews by @Silverjacket re: @DeepMindAI
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European founders need to think bigger. Our 26 unicorns vs US' 109 is due to lack of ambition, not environment.
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@DeepMindAI Perfect time to try out some biologically-inspired RNNs and genetic algorithms. This worked 16 years ago. Evolution of full walking in <1h, on a Pentium III.
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We are incredibly proud to be part of the @AppStore @RED campaign to #endAIDS. Go get your @Bugatti Chiron RED in @CSRRacing now!
Join @RED’s fight to #endAIDS. Every #GamesForRED item you buy benefits the Global Fund. Ends 12/6. See them all:
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This new Mary-Meeker-style AI report by @NathanBenaich and @soundboy is outstanding. And the prediction slide at the end is fascinating and worrying:
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Massive achievement by Alex and the Wayve team. The UK is a great place to build game-changing companies 🚀.
Today is a significant milestone for @wayve_ai, as we proudly announce our $1.05 billion Series C from @SoftBank_Group, @Microsoft and @nvidia. Since the start we've held a contrarian belief that end-to-end AI will make autonomy possible. I'm excited about this massive
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Spotify and @eldsjal casually resetting benchmark for European entrepreneurs.
640m MAUs, 252m paying subscribers, double digit revenue growth to get to c. €4bn quarterly Revenue while expanding margins. @Spotify is about to become the first European startup of this generation to make it as a $100bn+ publicly traded company. A green beacon of light amidst.
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Self-driving car start-up @_FiveAI is assembling a rock star team for its simulation division:
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@Schuldensuehner Only about 8% of the German working population are entrepreneurs, so 7% of MdBs is not a massive underrepresentation.
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UK’s plans for large-scale state aid for deep tech will seem prescient in a few years. EU should review its current restrictive policy too. AI, semiconductors, batteries, defence etc. are fundamental to European sovereignty.
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BS.
My European colleagues: Out of Office since Dec 1 at Christmas parties- it'll have to wait until February. My US colleagues: You have 20 mins to fill in this when2meet for a 30 person meeting on 24th December. 😭😭.
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Rock&roll!.
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Packed venue as @_FiveAI CEO @stanboland is revealing our autonomous cars in London! #FiveAIShowcase
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I have only good things to say about Nvidia - they were a great and supportive shareholder in my company NaturalMotion. But the ARM acquisition is yet another wake-up call for Europe. If you know of a credible RISC-V team in Europe, please DM.
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This would require time travel, not supersonic aviation.
Imagine:. • Breakfast in New York.• Lunch in London.• Dinner in Dubai. Sound impossible? Not anymore. How an ex-Amazon employee with zero aviation experience is about to make this your new reality:
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Nathan deserves a lot of credit for tirelessly driving this policy reform. Potentially transformative result for UK spin-out ecosystem. Credit also to UK government for listening and acting.
Today’s review marks a huge step forward for UK spinout founders 🇬🇧. It adopts almost all of the policy reform proposals I made via @spinoutfyi and have been pushing on for 2 years. A few thoughts on why this is a big day for the ecosystem and UK science&tech below:
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@AppStoreGames Thanks, it’s been a lot of fun! Looking forward to seeing everyone on the battlefield. Download here
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Spot the date Instagram was launched.
This is terifying. The # of teenage depression basically doubled in the last 15 years to reach 15% of the population.
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@afneil Eurozone average is 1.9%, so UK has slipped below that. Still not sick, but trend not good.
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This new report is a must-read for anyone in deep tech, AI and politics. It’s outstanding.
Here it is, the 2019 State of AI Report by @NathanBenaich and me. 130 slides covering the most important machine learning research, industry and political developments over the past 12 months. New section on China. Please RT if you find interesting!
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Your company’s actions have led to the electorate’s crass desensitisation to conspiracy theories and radicalism, and ultimately to Trump’s 2016 victory, @nick_clegg. So please spare us your hypocrisy.
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The perseverance of Berliners in keeping this joke going is nothing but astonishing. #nevergiveup
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The “EU regulation” narrative has become the go-to excuse for underperforming founders, judging from the replies below.
Is there anything happening in EU?.
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Hard to be cynical about the metaverse after this. Incredible progress by Meta.
Here's my conversation with Mark Zuckerberg, his 3rd time on the podcast, but this time we talked in the Metaverse as photorealistic avatars. This was one of the most incredible experiences of my life. It really felt like we were talking in-person, but we were miles apart 🤯 It's
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@afneil Wrong. Looks very different if you use the correct comparison (Direktmandate or “direct seats”). Grey/black: CDU, red: SPD, blue CSU:
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Simple answers are rarely right. But the one and only reason why the US is in this sorry state is: Facebook.
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@afneil FWIW there was little glee in Germany when the UK was in a tough spot with covid last year, and there’s genuine admiration for the UK’s vaccination success now. Hard not to sense a certain degree of schadenfreude in your tweet.
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No it’s not. Europe’s problem is lack of aggressive founders, not regulation.
The WHOLE European tech ecosystem is deeply worried about the innovation-killer aspect of the new 🇪🇺 AI Act. @ki_verband @HubFranceIA @CroAI_org @utum_muc @JonasAndrulis @Laurent_Daudet.
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Great to see ML community rediscover evolutionary algorithms. Much simpler than RL and probably more powerful:
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Plural is the type of VC Europe needs. Congratulations to @soundboy @KHelioui and team. Shows it’s possible to attract LPs with a relentless focus on integrity and companies that matter.
1/ 18 months into @pluralplatform, we’ve raised a new €400M fund. This is an endorsement of the first 26 teams we’ve backed and the level of ambition now emerging from Europe:
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Totally agree. We also forget that "best practice" (don't do a rebrand as-you-go) is only one approach to business. Many outlier entrepreneurs have individual styles that only work for them, in their circumstances, with their experience, team etc.
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Each glider runs our Lura large acoustic model (LAM), capable of detecting threats 10x quieter than SOTA.
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Web3’s lack of product-market fit is extraordinary. Any innocent use-case question seemingly enough to rattle evangelists. So weird.
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Spot-on by @nathanbenaich, calling for digital transformation of European defence.
My case for European Dynamism 🇪🇺. More to come 🫡 .
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I learnt how to program because of Richard Dawkins’ biomorphs.
Thanks for helpful advice. Btw, ageists, I may be old but, before I gave up coding addiction I was fluent in 2 machine codes, wrote a word processor, digital simulation of analogue computer, “Dawkins Organ”, cricket song, etc. Blind Watchmaker Biomorphs commercially marketed.
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The console games industry needs a total reset. Same derivative themes and gameplay, bad acting, horrible animations. Can’t wait for generative AI to shake it up. (Link below).
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Boss move.
This is huge: Llama-v2 is open source, with a license that authorizes commercial use!. This is going to change the landscape of the LLM market. Llama-v2 is available on Microsoft Azure and will be available on AWS, Hugging Face and other providers. Pretrained and fine-tuned.
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If 2000 is anything to go by, we’ll now see one last wave of market exuberance, followed by a massive correction. Tesla probably most affected.
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Congrats @helenehuby and team! European founder power 🚀.
1. @pluralplatform is co-leading, with @balderton, the €150m Series B in The Exploration Company. It is the largest Series B in a European space startup to date, at the measure of one of the largest commercial opportunities of this century and the urgency for Europe to maintain
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This, by @rabois, is gold. Ignore The Lean Startup if you want to build something meaningful.
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Long on Europe.
1/ Last year I co-lead the first funding round for Proxima Fusion. I wrote here about how Germany has quietly become the global leader in a category of fusion - stellarators Great to see @johnthornhillft highlighting the opportunity for Germany & Europe.
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SG-1 can operate for up to three months at a time, paving the way for large-scale persistent subsurface surveillance.
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100% agree.
It's time for schools to teach Python, not Java, as their main intro to computer science. Along with being easier to learn and *actually* able to run anywhere on anything (like Basic back in the day), it's the dominant language of AI and computer vision.
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OpenAI/MS were reckless with release of GPT-4 and plug-ins. Likely triggered Prisoners-Dilemma runaway train to AGI. Impact still massively underestimated.
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@erikbryn Many radiologists left the field during covid, hence the surge. And AI adoption has been slow for regulatory and cultural reasons. Probably not a good predictor for other job types.
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This is broken.
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Acerbic Gizmodo review of @magicleap, but hits on a general AR issue: inserting digital 3D objects into the real world has almost no uses 1/
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