magician, Oxford, ex-mckinsey… founder @mvrxlabs (YC P26)
London, England
Joined February 2012
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If OpenAI valuation went to 0, would they just opensource everything and you know… keep AI open?
This piece by @brianchau57 is too under the radar.. flagging for all to read
Actually crazy how you can tell if a startup is going to make it by walking into the office. 10 second job.
Don’t understand why more VCs don’t do this…
Super hyped for @KanishkaNarayan - AI in the UK in great hands
The Prime Minister, @andyburnham, today asked me to attend Cabinet as Minister for AI, a sign of his deep commitment to AI's importance.
AI is likely the most significant technology in human history. Its impact will dwarf other things.
The best case for it is compelling beyond our dreams: a reindustrialised Britain, stronger national security, public services transformed for the better.
The risks, too, are real: it is right that the British public shares those worries, for jobs, for the pace of change.
The central fact is that it is happening. Nations have a narrow window to decide whether they shape AI or get shaped by it. Britain is in that window right now.
While that window is still open, I will act with pace, I will act with ambition, and I will focus relentlessly on securing British influence in shaping AI.
I will also bring to this job the place I represent - a constituency in Wales, a nation with industry and ambition at its heart, a proud history of punching above its weight on the global stage. A nation which welcomed a 12-year old and his family, gave us the best chance at opportunity, put me in Parliament as Wales' first ethnic minority MP, and now affords me the chance to make a mark in Cabinet. Diolch o galon to everyone in the Vale of Glamorgan.
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Biggest insight from this is that opensource is way more important than we expected. Whether that continues remains to be seen but if that’s the bet electricity (and chips etc.,) is all you need.
@itsalasdairmann told me about Nebius soon after he invested, and after dripping in I slowly scaled the position, leading to me making multiples of my salary in returns this year.
Build conviction then ape. #NotFinancialAdvice, #DYOR
This is literally what sovereign individual wrote about 29 years ago -JOBS TO TASKS and @balajis and @ns have run for over a year now
read more long form less x
the beautiful thing of AI history is that the researchers who actually bought AI into the world, Hassabis, Hinton, will be credited by the best for their work. And those who joined the movement to capitalise will be seen as the side characters
the problem with american comedians is that they sound like people who have been told by their parents that they're great and have been sent to perform at their dad's bday
Praying to God everyday that opensource model development hits "good enough point" before foundational model labs stop subsidising my spend.
Rn I'm one codex openclaw ban away from being dysfunctional again
Few better uses of time than reviewing the general questions paper from the all souls exam.
asc.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/f…
Also, a reminder that I was smarter 7 years ago than now.
Purpose first business where everyone also prints = insane execution
anthropic’s openclaw-killer is complete. fucking crazy what they’ve shipped in 4 weeks:
- texting claude code
- 10,000s of claude skills + MCP
- Claude security (autonomous bug-fixer)
- persistent memory (claude never forgets)
- channels (text claude from telegram)
- autonomous cron-jobs
- 1M context window
- new model (opus, sonnet)
- 30+ plug-ins that’ve tanked stocks
- remote control
just insane fucking levels of execution.
One of the oddest things about AI impact is that grads have been affected before experienced hires.
It's an example of how companies are less ruthless than the free market would expect them to be.
A median grad with 3 months training right now would outcompete a legacy employee 9/10 times.
Why haven't most companies caught on?
Content creators haven't noticed, they are optimising for the algorithm's whims, the first example of AI recruiting humans - and look at where it's left us
The mad thing about @WisprFlow is that voice to text is now more accurate than my own typing
One of the most surprising revelations I’ve had over the past decade, is that those who achieved their wealth through luck, are the most miserable of them all.
I know dozens of self made, under 30, mega millionaires. Every single one who had more luck than drive to get there is lost.
The happiest are those who are still building towards what they love.
30u30 really is a curse.