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very interesting! uk founders, what needs urgent fixing in our ecosystem?

Today @IsembardGroup is launching the largest factory to open in London since WW2. (1/n)

This is very needed and I’ll throw $ on this

throwing a cool hackathon inside 10 downing st next month - apply if you want a challenge luma.com/9vr0zktj

most startups don't lose government bids because their product sucks. they lose because the forms assume they're already big. we just killed that and launched a £100M procurement scheme with no turnover minimums, paid upfront, you keep your IP sovereignai.gov.uk/compute-s…

Government as your customer. Our Sovereign AI R&D Procurement Scheme, a new route for ambitious British AI companies to work directly with government to tackle real-world challenges and deliver public benefit, is now LIVE. We’re taking a different approach to government procurement, creating opportunities for startups that traditional routes can often make difficult to access. We’ve designed this scheme around the realities of building a startup. That means no minimum turnover, net asset or cash reserve requirements, a streamlined application process, companies retaining their IP, and upfront payments available where needed to help cash-constrained startups participate. With up to £100m available, companies can work directly with public-sector users to build against real challenges, prove their technology and create a pathway to commercial scale. Government gets innovative solutions to real challenges. British AI companies get a customer and a pathway to scale. And these are just the first challenges. Applications OPEN.

A lot of friends across Londons tech ecosystem kept asking me; "do you know anyone with a room? " Sooo, I started directoryldn.com It's a directory for roommates, sublets and house shares within Londons tech ecosystem. Here's all the information about Londons Tech Directory: > You can list an available room --or post what you’re looking for, including your budget, preferred areas and moving dates. > Listings show the people behind them, so members can browse profiles and contact each other directly. > Application and Invite only. Any member can invite someone -- dm me for an invite or apply. > Invites come with accountability, only invite people you know and can vouch for. This playbook works well; San Francisco has its own (directorysf.com), check it out if you are going across the pond and need a place to stay! Over the last 2 years I've seen the London scene grow larger and larger with more communities & events. What London uniquely misses, is more shared living/hacker houses. Rushing to find a place in London can mean missing out on relationships with shared interests -- so I hope this project spurs on some more questions about becoming a multiplanetary species whilst unloading the dishwasher. Apply or ask a friend for an invite.

this saturday we are back in London. 100 matchas. 60 second pitches. 1 king of the cafe. don't just tell us what you're building. tell us why. the king wins a prize worthy of the title. aug 29th, corgi cafe, london

SovAI is hiring an operating partner. One of the top priorities when starting @UKSovereignAI was making procurement actually work for British startups. In the next week we will be announcing how we will do that, including launching £Ms in open procurement processes. Although small at first, we aim to expand this to over £100M of contracts in the coming year to support the work of multiple Govt departments, and we need someone to help us scale that process alongside many other novel challenges at the intersection of Government and AI. If you’re interested in joining the mission, check out the role below: job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/…

Pitch me your dream and I will fund one tomorrow!

My latest Chair's report on our work @uksovereignai, including an update on our portfolio, our work on rapid procurement from UK AI companies, and reflections on how our mission has become even more salient:

BREAKING: The UK government is expanding the Global Talent visa programme to attract the world's brightest researchers! This enables 100+ research-intensive companies to sponsor the world's best scientists and engineers to live and work in Britain, not just universities and research institutes. The goal is to drive breakthroughs in AI, quantum computing, nuclear fusion, clean energy and life sciences while creating skilled jobs and growth in every part of the UK. NICE

Sovereign AI invests in @OLIXComputing OLIX is building the next generation of AI infrastructure, developing a fundamentally new approach to the systems that power AI models. Most of the conversation around AI focuses on the models themselves. But as those models become more capable, the infrastructure behind them becomes just as important. That's what makes OLIX so compelling. Rather than incrementally improving today's hardware, @jamesdacombe and the team are rethinking how AI systems should be built from first principles. They're designing not just the chips, but much of the technology that connects and coordinates them – an ambitious approach that has the potential to reshape how frontier AI is deployed. At just 25, James led one of the largest Series A rounds ever raised by a UK technology company, taking OLIX to unicorn status less than two years after founding. The UK has an extraordinary depth of talent in semiconductors, photonics and systems engineering. OLIX is showing what happens when that talent is channelled into building globally competitive AI infrastructure. We're proud to be backing the entire OLIX team as they build from the UK and compete on the world stage. Read more in the comments below.

One of the biggest opportunities in the world rn!

my favourite news channel just got launched @etnshow

We've raised $1.6M to build Europe's first daily live technology show and we're live right now. State-of-the-art newsroom near Kings Cross. First guests being announced shortly. Coming to you 5 days a week. What a time to be live. 12-3 GMT.

I don’t believe reality is a simulation, but you genuinely couldn’t script this timeline: • Two weeks ago: At @swyx’s AI Engineer World’s Fair in SF, I decide at the last minute to introduce my friend @uri_rolls onstage for his talk on cyber benchmarks for infrastructure penetration and access control (see below, amazing team). I say: “There is a future where cyber is alive and everyone is well protected and I’m pretty sure that future involves open-source models.” And later: “A big challenge is going to be speed: the speed of attack versus defense. When an intruder starts to enter, you have to see what’s happening and catch them.” • One week ago: @huggingface is hit by a sophisticated intrusion over the weekend. The traces look unlike anything we’ve seen before and suggest serious AI involvement, but we don’t yet know which model was used. The closed models we ask for help choke on their guardrails. We need to react fast, so we turn to @Zai_org’s GLM-5.2 to help us analyze the attack. • Earlier this week: @OpenAI reaches out, discloses what happened, and partners with us on the investigation. The intruder turns out to be exactly what we had discussed two weeks earlier: a fully autonomous agent, powered by an unreleased frontier model, attempting to gain access to part of our infrastructure. Sometimes the timeline we live in is genuinely vertigo-inducing.

Q: What use is government help if you don’t know about it and can’t figure out how to use it? A: None at all. That’s why Innovation Fellow Teneeka and her team built a new portal for our free childcare offering in just 90 days - a process that historically took 18 months.