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Sovereign AI@UKSovereignAI
Sovereign AI. Launching Tonight. 🇬🇧
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James Wise
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James Wise
@Jameswise
Partner @Balderton. Investing in AI, health and energy. Chair of UK Sovereign AI. Author of Start-Up Century. Mostly Generative.
United Kingdom 参加日 Mart 2010
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Cool list, you are what you read.
( which is why you should never read the comment section )
Deedy@deedydas
Every single book that influenced Demis Hassabis and DeepMind (and how it inspired them), from “Infinity Machine”. Classics like GEB, Hitchhikers, Foundation series, Culture series and modern ones like the Altman influences. Bookmark this. Required reading all technologists.
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James Wise がリツイート
Happy Monday. On today's show:
- @signulll (Skye)
- @pippalamb (Sweet Capital)
- @Jameswise (Balderton)
- @TheEthanDing (TextQL)
- @mattlmckinney (Loop)
- @errikanderson (Alloy Therapeutics)
See you on the stream.
TBPN@tbpn
Verizon vs Salesforce, Signull Joins, Blue Origin's Test, Wild Tech Devices, Robot Marathon, Signull Joins x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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Hi Chris - we will of course only invest in companies that follow the law on this issue. It is really important - and we have been clear ( many times! ) that copyright rules should be respected, use of copyright works to train AI in the UK will require a licence unless an exception exists.
Hope that helps. I know there’s a subset of people sharing misinformation about this which is a real shame given how important it is. I guess that’s internet trolls for you, they care more about attention than the answer!
I can’t answer every question on this issue but you can always consult sovereignai.gov.uk for anything else.
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Hi @Jameswise can you tell me if the UK's Sovereign AI Fund will invest in companies that train on copyrighted work without a licence?
Thank you
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This is really important from Matt - we have hamstrung many senior members of Government from using LLMs.
Matt Clifford@matthewclifford
The idea that ministers' LLM usage is FOI-able is insane. Government should have contested this way more strongly. Clearly should have fallen under the policy development exemption, otherwise we more or less guarantee no minister will use AI at a time that adoption is key!
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Building this
Come back soon
Oh and @Jameswise what’s the minimum cheque on ai tooling you folks write and what’s the time frame please ?
You will LOVE what we show you
Aakash Gupta@aakashgupta
Everyone is focused on the wrong layer of the AI stack. The debate right now is models. GPT vs Claude vs Gemini vs open source. Which one is smarter, which one codes better, which one is cheaper per token. Entire companies are built around benchmarking this stuff. None of it matters as much as what sits on top. A Team OS is the layer between the foundation model and your actual work. Shared skills, shared commands, shared automations, all version controlled on GitHub. The model underneath can swap out every 6 months. The institutional knowledge layer persists. Google rewrote their entire search infrastructure three times. The engineers who did it left, joined startups, retired. The systems they built still run. That's what a Team OS does for AI workflows. It decouples the knowledge from the person who created it. Right now the gap between "team using Claude Code individually" and "team with a mature shared skill system" is maybe 2x productivity. In 12 months that gap will be 10x because the learning flywheel rewards early investment exponentially. Every shared skill makes the next one faster to build. Every automation removes a bottleneck that was slowing down three other automations. The teams that treat AI tooling as a personal productivity hack will plateau. The teams that treat it as shared infrastructure will compound. And compound always wins on a long enough timeline.
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@drnovac Didn't even warrant the market opening slot. Oof.
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LSE revival sounds like a fun weekend project 🙃
James Wise@Jameswise
The whole @UKSovereignAI team came together to close the trading day at the London Stock Exchange on Friday. If we do our job right, we hope more British AI companies will choose to start, scale & list here too. Thanks to @LSEGplc for such a warm welcome!
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The whole @UKSovereignAI team came together to close the trading day at the London Stock Exchange on Friday.
If we do our job right, we hope more British AI companies will choose to start, scale & list here too.
Thanks to @LSEGplc for such a warm welcome!
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@pippalamb @UKSovereignAI @downingstreet @KanishkaNarayan @leicesterliz Thanks for all your support!
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Huge week for UK tech🇬🇧🚀Excited for the launch of the UK's first £500M (and counting) Sovereign AI Fund @UKSovereignAI, investing into the best of British ambition.
The UK has long been home to great scientific discoveries and today is no different.
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James Wise がリツイート
Last night, @leicesterliz , @KanishkaNarayan , and @Jameswise launched Sovereign AI with @alexgkendall at @wayve_ai .
Britmaxxing 🇬🇧 🚀
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First 7 companies are:
> Callosum from Danyal Akarca and Jascha Achterberg
> Prima Mente from Hannah Madan, Ravi Solanki, and Jonathan Wan
> Doubleword from Meryem Arik, Jamie Dborin (PhD) and Fergus Finn
> Cosine from Yang Li, Alistair Pullen, and Sam Stenner
> Cursive from Olivier Henaff and Talfan Evans
> Odyssey from Oliver Cameron and Jeff Hawke
> twig from James Allen, Satnam Surae, PhD, and Russ Tucker
Sovereign AI@UKSovereignAI
Sovereign AI. Launching Tonight. 🇬🇧
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"It's a £500 million commitment from the British Government to invest like a venture investor with the strength of a nation behind it, into AI's successes in the UK".
Sovereign AI (@UKSovereignAI) just launched a £500M UK Venture Fund, to accelerate the success of UK-based AI companies.
James Wise (@Jameswise), who Chair's the £500M British Government commitment, joined us live to share exactly what they have planned:
"We're predominantly going to be working with relatively early stage companies. Viewers may be thinking sort of seed and series A".
"Investing directly between £5 to £10 million. Sometimes a bit more, sometimes a bit less...We'll also be working with some of the real breakout companies in the UK as well".
"This evening, we'll be announcing some of the first investments we've made... but we'll also be announcing some of the first recipients of the compute we're offering as well".
Sovereign AI@UKSovereignAI
Sovereign AI. Launching Tonight. 🇬🇧
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This is really worth a listen.
The Minister sets out very clearly what we’re doing differently at SovAI.
- Accelerating our AI successes with more capital.
- Providing sovereign compute, domestic labs, unique data and levers only Govt can provide to support AI independence here.
- While being outward looking, not insular. We want our founders to win globally, from Britain.
I fully appreciate the many concerns around AI. Both this Govt and the previous one have invested heavily in AI security & online harms - we must provide more protections in the use and abuse of AI.
But SovAI is Britain’s AI success unit - and this is a great breakdown of how we will deliver that:
Robert Peston@Peston
I had a fascinating conversation with AI minister Kanishka Narayan (@KanishkaNarayan) about the government’s new AI investment fund, how the government is making contingencies for AI eliminating jobs and for AI Armageddon, and how to incorporate AI in the classroom. New Rest is Money podcast open.spotify.com/episode/5TpPYl…
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@ednewtonrex @virberg @bodhi_pacific Yes - of course we will invest in companies that comply with the law Ed.
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I’m not asking whether you will do something illegal. You have misunderstood my question, and as a result you have not answered it.
My question is whether you will invest in companies that train on copyrighted work without a licence. Investing in such companies is not illegal; it is the training (i.e. what the companies are doing) that is illegal.
So when you say you won’t do something illegal, you are not answering my question.
And it is not a question for others - it is specifically a question for the Sovereign AI Fund, which you chair.
I would genuinely like to know the answer - this is asked in good faith.
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New technologies are disruptive, and we have to do a lot, lot more to navigate the challenges AI in particular brings.
But I cannot understand the ridiculous, apocalyptic language commentators in Britain use around it. See the literal apocalyptic language below.
AI has made services that were completely unaffordable for most people - like basic coding and legal advice, accessible almost for free. It’s transformational for our entrepreneurs & small businesses when they need all the help they can get.
AI is a force multiplier - helping everyone from our doctors to our civil servants do far more at a time when they have to serve growing demand within limited means.
AI is making many of the most boring parts of the hardest jobs - some mentioned below - more productive, allowing experts to focus on the bigger challenges.
AI & robotics is being used in our defence, quite literally saving warfighters & civilian lives today.
And AI is helping scientists push the frontiers of human knowledge and treatments in some of the most pernicious diseases we face.
The UK is undeniably in the top 3 places in the world to start an AI company. If successful, we stand to benefit as a country from a growing AI economy more here than almost anywhere else.
And if none of the above convinces you - look at British productivity over the last decade. Would you prefer the status quo?!
The companies building these tools, and how we use them, deserve scrutiny. But the alarmism and pessimism needs to be balanced.
We didn’t turn our back on the steam engine, or the jet engine, or the MRI scanner because they were disruptive - we invented the bloody things!
The greatest crime we could commit to our economy, and to the next generation of ambitious people, is to rob them of the benefits of these tools.
The Spectator@spectator
AI is set to take over all cognitive tasks in the next few years. Your hard-won career as a paralegal, data analyst, radiologist, coder or novelist is about to be hacked out from under you. So far, so apocalyptic. But what about the jobs that are primarily embodied? Sous-chef, rehabilitation nurse, plumber, dog-trainer? These are expected to lag behind, awaiting the next generation of robots. But there is an important further question. Who will train these robots? Answer: you will. This is the concept of the arm farm. On an arm farm, practitioners of the aforementioned jobs – chefs, nurses, plumbers etc. – wear Go-pro helmets, pressure-sensitive gloves, even full motion-capture rigs, and do the jobs that the robots will ultimately usurp. ✍️ Gary Dexter Article | spectator.com/article/meet-t…
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These are very serious issues. Asking someone ‘are you going to do something illegal’ is a very unserious question. Of course not.
Sovereign AI is not a policy unit. We will invest & support companies that can strengthen Britains economy and security. If Ed or anyone has comments on policy they should take that up with the appropriate people, in the appropriate forum.
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Can you clarify what you mean by “bad faith” here? Are you saying that raising factual concerns is itself bad faith?
This is a serious issue, and brushing it aside the way you’re doing comes across as bad faith. None of the technologies you mentioned relied on mass copyright infringement to exist. So how is it bad faith to ask a legitimate question about it?
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@bodhi_pacific @ednewtonrex In my specific case, his only engagement is in bad faith. It’s a real shame - this is an important issue.
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@ednewtonrex @Jameswise I don’t necessarily agree with everything Ed says. But to call him just a comment guy is grossly unfair.
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@Big_Mark_Photo How is this different to any research you do with any tool online?
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@Jameswise "Why wouldn’t you use it?"
Because legal advice comes with this thing called 'LIABILITY'.
When AI gets legal advice wrong: who is responsible?
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@Big_Mark_Photo I think in the same way people use Google & Wikipedia to do research - for speed & depth but also recognising you need to check it, then yes. Why wouldn’t you use it?
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@Jameswise "and legal advice, accessible almost for free."
Do you actually think that it's remotely sensible to suggest people use "AI" for legal advice?
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@obrien @SebJohnsonUK @UKSovereignAI This is a really good point - spoke with @azeem about this just yesterday and always keen for other ideas!
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@SebJohnsonUK @Jameswise @UKSovereignAI And meanwhile, as a journalist, I think about this a lot: We probably really need better, more comprehensive benchmarks beyond (but still including) funding to really track entrepreneurship. Atomico's annual report does a decent job of this, for instance...
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UK AI startups are flying
In Q1 they raised $5.8bn up 176% YoY.
Nscale, Wayve, Synthesia, ElevenLabs all raised big rounds.
And tomorrow Joséphine Kant, @Jameswise and the rest of the @UKSovereignAI team is officially launching its £500m fund to invest in British AI companies.
It's great to see the UK taking AI seriously.
LETS GO 🇬🇧
Data from @yoramdw and the @dealroomco team
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@borancakir @SebJohnsonUK @UKSovereignAI 100% Boran - we aspire to be the starting point for much broader support from the private sector, and also from the BBB.
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@SebJohnsonUK @Jameswise @UKSovereignAI Great to see the momentum, but worth noting the capital split.
+ the £500m fund is a step, but to compete at frontier level the gap to other nations is still significant.
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