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Could new forms of stone craft remake Westminster?
@ArkaSerezh of @Gondor_Ind shares his vision for AI-driven microfactories at last week’s TxP.
thanks to everyone that made it down to our robotics event with @ARIA_research at @atomico!
next events coming soon 👀
v excited for tonight's incredible @txp_io robotics talks:
🦿robot bodies @ARIA_research
👷construction robotics @mollieclaypool
🗿robotics for stonecraft @ArkaSerezh
🎮investing in teleoperation @verbine
🏟️ robot dog fights @yaya_labs_
🦾 hand dexterity @shadowrobot
✊worker power @halcyene
🤸labour market flexicurity @jujulemons
hosted by @atomico, powered by @ARIA_research
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Not a bad location to discuss how to revive the state and world order @txp_io @civic_future.
Thanks so much to @b_judah, John Bew, and Munira Mirza for a brilliant discussion.
Know any crazy venues for us to host? Get in touch
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Mapping technical & policy pathways to scaling UK robotics: a @txp_io x ARIA collab, hosted at @Atomico
Speakers include @ARIA_research, @wayve_ai, Automated Architecture, @yaya_labs_, @Gondor_Ind, @The_TUC, @BritishProgress
📅11 March, 18:00
luma.com/uxqr0c0b
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next week!
@txp_io x @civic_future present a fireside chat on Statecraft & State Capacity between:
- John Bew, foreign policy adviser to last 4 PMs
- Ben Judah (@b_judah), author & former SpAd to Foreign Secretary
📆3rd March, 18:00
📍Central London
luma.com/hesnimql
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How to invest in AI sovereignty, with @LawrenceLundy (Cloudberry VC) | @sovereignalbion
For the last year, I’ve been wrestling with what AI sovereignty means for us, here, in Britain:
- Should we focus on chokepoints if we can't really leverage them?
- Are there other strategies for energy and compute-constrained countries like Britain, or is the US capex buildout the only game?
- How do we build state capacity? What will it take for SovAI, the government’s new strategic AI venture fund, to succeed, especially given wider structural shifts in VC?
To explore these questions, I had a lot of fun catching up with my friend @LawrenceLundy, who has just launched Europe’s first dedicated semiconductor fund, Cloudberry. He’s spent his career going deep on frontier technologies and has thought more than almost anyone I know about the interplay of AI progress, structural shifts in venture capital, and UK sovereignty. Lemme know what you think.
00:00 Introduction
01:07 Launching Cloudberry VC
01:44 The Future of VC Funds: AUM Agglomerators vs Specialists
04:47 Semiconductors: Past, Present, and Future
10:21 The Importance of Edge Computing
12:58 Europe's Role in the Semiconductor Industry
21:38 Investing in New Applications
29:23 Government's Role in AI and Semiconductors
33:08 Complexity and Capabilities in Industrial Strategy
35:57 Domain Elasticity and Building Conviction in New Founders
41:41 Lawrence's Decision Making Process
47:40 The European Venture Capital Landscape
53:43 Raising Collective Ambition
Great opp here from our pals @RenPhilanthropy:
New call to identify novel, high-value AI for Science datasets, with ~£62k prize money available for best proposals & a stacked review committee: @tkalil2050 @AdamMarblestone @scannicott, Sir Rory Collins &
@tkb
Deadline: 17 Feb
1/ Renaissance Philanthropy, in collaboration with @SciTechgovuk, is launching a call for proposals to identify novel high-value AI for Science datasets that advance the UK’s AI for Science Strategy. ▼
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Really wonderful to host the first ever @ReadTransformer event today, with @HZoete, @nitarshan and the wonderful folks at @txp_io.
Thanks everyone for coming!
The Thinking Game was released on YouTube two days ago and already has 2.5m views!
We loved screening it back in May with the folks at @DigitalFrontier and @GoogleDeepMind at Curzon Hoxton.
Great event tonight with @DigitalFrontier @txp_io @GoogleDeepMind for the screening and Q&A of The Thinking Game.
Congrats to friends of @txp_io @LucyRigby and @KanishkaNarayan for their deserved promotions in the government reshuffle!
If you want to know who will be the future people steering the country towards tech progress, our events may offer a clue 😉
Was a pleasure to host @txp_io and @WiTTforum last night for policy drinks and networking! Excellent to hear from @LucyRigby and @KanishkaNarayan - two exciting pro-tech, pro-growth MPs 🚀🇬🇧
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One of my favourite groups/organisations adding genuine excitement and energy into Westminster at the moment. So much cool stuff on AI and tech in general, applicable to all levels of experience and expertise.
If you haven't been to a @txp_io event, GO!!!!
Such a great event last night - cinema is an underrated way to build community.
What other films could inspire UK moral ambition and optimism about getting stuff done? Can you help @txp_io do something like this again?
If so, get in touch. 🎥 🍻
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excited for our next @txp_io, teaming up with @DigitalFrontier & @GoogleDeepMind to screen The Thinking Game, a new doc tracing GDM's efforts to build AGI
📍@CurzonCinemas
📆27 May
signup below:
xitter.cf/BerthaDocHouse/status/…
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🎥 @txp_io Film Screening - in collaboration with with @DigitalFrontier!
We are working with the folks at @GoogleDeepMind to show a screening of their film, The Thinking Game. Followed by a Q&A + pub trip after!
May 27. Curzon Hoxton. Register below 👇🏼
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Great piece by our (@BritishProgress) Head of Science @ersatzben & Chief Economist @pdmsero on R&D and economic growth.
How does R&D contribute to economic growth? A response to David Edgerton from me and @pdmsero (🔗 in next post)
big day for our friends at UK Day One, who today relaunch as the Centre for @BritishProgress
keep your calendars free on 30th April to hear more...
💫 We’re launching the Centre for British Progress
Our founding essay: Rediscovering British Progress is a case for growth that drives shared progress, rooted in Britain's values and industrial heritage.
It all starts with a postcard from 1870 👇
britishprogress.org/articles…
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Broadening horizons always with @txp_io, now including tech for worlding, and liquid schemas. Loved the collab, the demos and to hear (always) from community queen @sarahdrinkwater
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Honest journeys of software art, community focus and participation in the age of AI with @matdryhurst @sarahdrinkwater @freudenheiim and Flora Weil hosted by @txp_io @nwspk
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Who’d have thought a showcase of creative technology and policy would cause an absolute roadblock on a friday night in Shoreditch?
Awesome @txp_io /Restless Egg collab, ft our amazing speakers @sylvanprr @matdryhurst @sarahdrinkwater Flora Weil and @freudenheiim
