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Why startups should push an ambitious public-facing agenda from day one

What you need to know in AI across geopolitics, big tech, hardware, research, models, datasets, financings and exits over the last 4 weeks. 

We’re about to set off to bring Air Street AI meetups to Berlin on Thursday 20th Feb, Munich on Tuesday 25th Feb and Zurich on the 4th March. We focus these events on a) best practices that entrepreneurs and researchers can learn from and b) attracting the very best contributors and heavily curating event attendance to make sure that everyone makes high-value connections. Each event will host circ...

$3M day one financing to build multi-agent systems for real-world problems. Learn more at www.fern-labs.ai

The State of AI Report aims to provide a comprehensive overview of everything you need to know across AI research, industry, politics, and safety. To ensure the report remains at a manageable length, lots of material doesn’t make it into the final version. We’re bringing Air Street Press some of the research that didn’t make the original cut, along with our own reflections. Read more on press.airs...

Welcome to the latest issue of your guide to AI, an editorialized newsletter covering the key developments in AI policy, research, industry, and start-ups over the last month.

Air Street’s submission to the UK Strategic Defence Review. You can read more at press.airstreet.com and https://press.airstreet.com/p/uk-defence-and-dynamism

The dawning AI-first era is creating clear winners and losers. Here we dive into the vibe shift of both Microsoft and Google in their work on AI. 

Final 2024 statistics for AI chip usage across NVIDIA, Google, Huawei, Apple, AMD, Cerebras, Cambricon, Graphcore, Groq, SambaNova, and Intel Habana in the State of AI Report Compute Index.

Scaling AI-first software for general purpose robotics.

Revisiting my 2019 lecture on why biology was experiencing its AI moment. Read more at press.airstreet.com and https://press.airstreet.com/p/ai-first-biology-five-years-on

The dawning AI-first era is creating clear winners and losers. We’re seeing giants of the past lose ground, while companies that few initially believed in defy their sceptics. At the same time, the terms of big macro debates in the field seemingly change overnight. In this “vibe shifts” series, we’ll be diving into some of these stories and drawing a few lessons for entrepreneurs and investors. He...

New research from Profluent Bio validates the power of machine learning models to design bespoke biological systems at scale.

How the EU spent 16 years and €8 billion on a drone that may never fly. You can read the essay on press.airstreet.com at https://press.airstreet.com/p/how-not-to-build-a-drone

In the spirit of building in the open and holding ourselves accountable to our progress, here is our year in review for 2024. We cover Air Street, Air Street Press, the State of AI Report, and our community engagement.

We share our best essays from 2024 on Air Street Press.

We dive into the AI energy wars, arguing that things will get worse before they get better. Read on for uranium, geopolitics, and why technical fixes likely aren’t coming to the rescue.

The company's first generative world model and Pixar's co-founder, Ed Catmull, joins the Board and invests. Learn more at press.airstreet.com and odyseey.systems

Jeremy Kahn is the AI editor at Fortune and co-writes and edits Fortune’s Eye on AI newsletter. His book Mastering AI: A Survival Guide to Our Superpowered Future was published by Simon and Schuster in the U.S. In this episode, we interview Jeremy about his new book! You can subscribe for more at press.airstreet.com

The State of AI Report aims to provide a comprehensive overview of everything you need to know across AI research, industry, politics, and safety. To ensure the report remains at a manageable length, lots of material doesn’t make it into the final version. We’re bringing Air Street Press some of the research that didn’t make the original cut, along with our own reflections. You can read more on pr...

Every month, we produce the ⁠Guide to AI⁠, an editorialized roundup covering geopolitics, hardware, start-ups, research, and fundraising. But so much happens in the AI world, that weeks can feel like years. So on off-weeks for Guide to AI, we’ll be bringing you three things that grabbed our attention from the past few days… You can subscribe for more at press.airstreet.com

This week on Air Street Press - we’re looking at how speed, inertia, and friction impact AI-first start-ups. Why being first is a moat, taking examples from ElevenLabs, Perplexity and Synthesia. As well as some failure cases like Internet Explorer and ActiveX. You can subscribe at press.airstreet.com

How Intel lost its way in AI and comes tumbling down. On Air Street Press , we’re starting a new “vibe shifts” series, where we’ll look at some of these stories and draw a few lessons for entrepreneurs and investors. First off: Intel Corporation. Subscribe to read more at press.airstreet.com You can read this post at airstreet.com/intel

Welcome to the latest issue of your guide to AI, an editorialized newsletter covering the key developments in AI policy, research, industry, and startups over the month of November 2024. Read more at press.airstreet.com and guideto.ai

Every month, we produce the  Guide to AI , an editorialized roundup covering geopolitics, hardware, start-ups, research, and fundraising. But so much happens in the AI world, that weeks can feel like years. So on off-weeks for Guide to AI, we’ll be bringing you three things that grabbed our attention from the past few days…