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Jano Costard

Jano Costard

@jncstrd

Head of Challenges @SPRIND - Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation. Leading Challenges in AI, drug development, biotech, energy, computing & more.

Katılım Mayıs 2019
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Lucas Beyer (bl16)
Lucas Beyer (bl16)@giffmana·
@Dorialexander It's funny because there was this big-ish call for AI startups in Germany that was literally the same shtick, "let's not catch up, let's leapfrog"
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Foresight Institute
Foresight Institute@foresightinst·
Vision Weekend UK is just around the corner! And for our 40th anniversary, we may have landed our best venue yet: the Barbican greenhouse. A Brutalist landmark filled with 1,500 species of tropical plants, it's a surreal setting to come nerd out about new AI modalities, longevity interventions, neuroengineering, AI for science, and novel funding mechanisms. What else is on the program at Vision Weekend UK? –– FRIDAY JUNE 5 –– VIP pre-party at @fiftyyears London HQ with speakers, sponsors, Foresight Fellows and grantees. Make sure to get your All Access ticket to join. –– SATURDAY JUNE 6 –– Looking Ahead: main summit at @BarbicanCentre: • Talks across emerging AI paradigms, neurotech, longevity, nanotech, and energy • Speaker meet-and-greets • Community office hours with leading experts • Speed friending & book swap • 1:1s with fellow futurists Evening: a VIP Cypherpunk Gala inside the Barbican greenhouse: dinner, drinks and dancing in a central London tropical rainforest. –– SUNDAY JUNE 7 –– Flourishing Futures: main summit at Bankside London: • Talks on Funding X, Pathways to Implementation, and Existential Hope in the age of AI • Participant lightning talks • Speaker meet-and-greets • $10,000 pitch contest: pitch your project for ambitious futures in AI for X • Closing ceremony The weekend ends with an after party. All Access Pass holders join speakers, Fellows, and grantees for private dinners across all days. Tickets in comments. Powered by: @apolloaievals, @ARIA_research, @e184media, @CUHPartners, @RenPhilanthropy, @SPRIND, and @andnowstudio.
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Kumar Garg
Kumar Garg@KumarAGarg·
NEW: I’m excited to announce our latest BiTS Accelerator open call. This is our second cohort with @SPRIND, Germany’s innovation agency, and it is great to see them double-down on the model. In fact, 2 participants from the first round were recruited to run large-scale programs
Renaissance Philanthropy@RenPhilanthropy

If creating conditions for breakthroughs is a better use of your technical expertise than running one more experiment, then @RenPhilanthropy's Big if True Science (BiTS) Accelerator, in partnership with @SPRIND, may be for you. We have now opened our second cohort. Read more here: renaissancephilanthropy.org/insights/appli…

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Jano Costard
Jano Costard@jncstrd·
@Simon__Grimm Gas also relies on a grid, storage, supply sources. It's just that this was established decades ago and doesn't require to establish a new (competing) system. Similar for nuclear, where we need fuel and means to treat used fuel etc
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Simon Grimm
Simon Grimm@Simon__Grimm·
With renewables, I more and more think there is a central planning illusion. While people say "Ah it's cheap energy, once we fix everything else (grid, flexible pricing, batteries, etc. etc.)", they don't consider the massive political overhead and all the stakeholders who will block these changes. You see this happening in Germany. Compare this with nuclear or gas. You place it, you get stable energy, done. Far less coordination required. I still like solar and wind, especially in sunny regions. But I've become quite a bit more bearish in Northern energy markets. For more on this, I recommend the Works in Progress piece on "magical systems thinking": worksinprogress.co/issue/magical-…
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SPRIND, Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation
SPRIND, Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation@SPRIND·
€125M equity-free for frontier AI built in Europe. SPRIND Next Frontier AI Challenge: up to 10 teams, up to €26.5M each. For alt architectures, world models, neuro-symbolic, scientific foundation models, and more. Apply by 1 June 2026, 12pm CEST. Link below.
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Jano Costard
Jano Costard@jncstrd·
@jonchu @SPRIND @jonchu get in touch via dm to learn about our €125M funding for frontier AI at Germany's Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation. More to come in robotics etc.
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Jon Chu // Khosla Ventures
Jon Chu // Khosla Ventures@jonchu·
If any world class German researchers want to incubate a German sovereign AI Lab, please reach out. The right team will succeed now that it's beyond clear Aleph Alpha isn't it. All of KV's sovereign lab bets have crushed. We know how to make this playbook work.
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Jano Costard
Jano Costard@jncstrd·
Super happy to talk about how to support visionary builders!
Foresight Institute@foresightinst

Molecular self-assembly. Private AI. Brain-computer interfaces. AGI safety. Hacking aging biology. Dyson spheres. Funding models for long-horizon science. We can’t wait for the talks at our upcoming Vision Weekend. June 5-7 in London. Full speaker lineup: • Greg Wayne (Google DeepMind) on universal AI assistants • William Shih (Harvard University) on self-assembly and the coming age of molecular machines • @moxie (Confer) on private AI • @leecronin (University of Glasgow) • @irinarish (Mila) on beyond scaling: toward continual and adaptive intelligence • @eboyden3 (MIT) on incentives in science • @anderssandberg (Institute for Future Studies) on Dyson 2070: how fast can we build a Dyson sphere and how stable are they? • João Pedro de Magalhães @jpsenescence (University of Birmingham) on hacking aging biology • @dorothychou (Google DeepMind) on capital for the long game: financing durable innovation in an age of hype • @SergeyStavisky (UC Davis) on high-bandwidth BCIs for motor and communication recovery in people with paralysis • Žiga Avsec @Avsecz (Google DeepMind) on advancing regulatory variant effect prediction with AlphaGenome • Christopher Rozell @crozSciTech (Georgia Tech) on closed-loop neuroengineering • @JerzySzablowski (Rice University) on precision neuromodulation through molecular engineering and focused ultrasound • Christine Peterson @lifeext (Foresight Institute) on Foresight, 40 years later • @MariusHobbhahn (Apollo Research) on the case for AGI safety products • @WeinbaumJonah (Institute for Progress) on the 'launch sequence': towards a concrete agenda for defensive acceleration • Peter Gehle (Tübingen AI Institute) • @joemeyerowitz (Field Foundry) • @jncstrd (SPRIND) on challenges as a tool for breakthrough innovation • @RonitKanwar (Renaissance Philanthropy) on fuelling scientific renaissances • Lynne Cox @OxAgeN_oxford (University of Oxford) • Adam Shai @adamimos on the neural basis of intelligent behavior • Zoë Brammer (Google DeepMind) on AI for science 2030 • Darja Isaksson (Vinnova) • Thane Campbell @Thane_ac (Deep Science Ventures) • Ankur Vora (Google DeepMind) on AI for science 2030 • Leah Morris @leahelizmorris on AI for science • @KirillEves (e184) • Kathleen Fisher (ARIA) • Mehmet Fisek (Meridial) • @JacquesCarolan (ARIA) moderator • Barbara Diehl @barbaradiehl13 (SPRIND) moderator • Eric Gilliam @eric_is_weird (Renaissance Philanthropy) moderator • @allisondman (Foresight Institute) moderator Powered by: @apolloaievals @ARIA_research @e184media @CUHPartners @RenPhilanthropy @SPRIND :

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uɐɥdǝʇS
uɐɥdǝʇS@StephanSturges·
@SebJohnsonUK @SPRIND any founder who actually has the skills and team to build a frontier lab and spends their time on this crap rather than actually starting the business and raising private capital is wasting precious time and will regret it
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Seb Johnson
Seb Johnson@SebJohnsonUK·
The German Federal Innovation Agency is running a €125m competition to fund 3 new Frontier AI labs in Europe! "Next Frontier AI" is a pan-European initiative led by @SPRIND to create three globally relevant Frontier AI labs. It starts with a €125m challenge where up to 10 teams receive funding over 24 months to build frontier-lab capabilities, including team, infrastructure, prototypes, evaluation discipline, and early pilots. The best-performing teams will then receive structured support toward raising ~€1 billion each. Europe has some of the top AI companies in the world, but as a continent we are massively dependent on frontier labs from other countries. This initiative seeks to change that and I am HERE FOR IT.
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Incitatus
Incitatus@Dominanski·
@SebJohnsonUK @SPRIND inside 24 months Anthropic and OpenAI will have achieved AGI at this level of funding and with these schedules this is just theatre
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Dan Brickley
Dan Brickley@danbri·
@SebJohnsonUK @halvarflake @SPRIND If it could be done on a shoestring wouldn’t there be more frontier labs already? Not that this couldn’t support interesting, important and impactful work. Just “frontier” is a curse of a label to stick on it. Which countries? EU?
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Paul Schoel
Paul Schoel@NextPersona·
@SebJohnsonUK @SPRIND Provocative Question: aside from political resilience, do we even need a frontier lab? It means huge invest (anthropic 67 billion so far), huge risks, in a sector, where we have never been very very competitive. I believe our strength rather lies in the proprietary data we own.
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Eddi
Eddi@_Eddited_·
@SebJohnsonUK @SPRIND They are missing at least one zero to make any impact whatsoever. We don't have enough compute, that shit is expensive. Or we need to rip off some open source model as a starter. But still, there wasn't a lack of initiative, but, as always in Europe, a lack of funding.
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SamWayne
SamWayne@SamuelWayne0·
@SebJohnsonUK @SPRIND We talking about developing frontier model capacity or applied AI / wrappers? Any new EU lab has a lot of catching up to do, if they do not start with rl on an open sourced model
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