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On the religious side, this happened with the invention of the telephone/radio. There was a surge in spiritualism, the ouija board, and speaking with the dead
most contrarian prediction: AI causes a baby boom
most contrarian prediction inside that prediction: AI also causes a religious revival
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lily petherick retweeted
The time has come! Britain is open!
Anthropic should move to London. Or, at least, dual-list in London, with a significant presence here.
Here's why:
1. Anthropic is spiritually British. Their philosopher-in-residence, Amanda Askell, is Scottish, and Jack Clark (cofounder) is English, as are many other staff. Askell would be further away from Elon Musk in London.
2. Unlike other US labs, Anthropic cares more about safety, risks and good regulation. Compared to the EU, Britain's AI regulation is more focused on safety (rather than "ethical AI") and growth-oriented.
3. It's not good for the world that all the frontier labs (excl. DeepMind, sort of) are US-based, and therefore subject to the whims and potential control of whoever is in the White House. If AGI happens, do you want Trump controlling it?
4. Britain desperately needs a stake in the post-AI economy. AI could replace much of our services sector could be at risk from AI. Our energy is too expensive for data centres or manufacturing. But we have talent, AI expertise (e.g. AISI) and global reach. The solution? Give British people a capital stake in frontier labs.
5. Anthropic wants to expand its AI for science work, where the UK is a global leader. As part of the Oxford-Cambridge growth corridor, HMG should co-fund the world's biggest AI for science campus near London, with Anthropic as the anchor funder & tenant.
The UK government should do everything it can to get Anthropic to move. We are spending £500m on Sovereign AI, to support "national champions". Instead, the British state could be an early shareholder in a newly-London listed Anthropic.
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I asked a few founders & investors: "What are 1-2 interesting startups for software engineers & researchers to join, beyond the big labs?"
1. MatX - chips for LLM training and inference - Founders: Reiner Pope, Mike Gunter (both ex-Google)
2. Prosper - domestic-work robots for households and businesses - Founder: Shariq Hashme (ex-OpenAI)
3. Manifest - core ml research lab - Founders: Jacob Buckman, Carles Gelada, Sean Zhang
4. Physical Intelligence - foundation models for robots - Founders: Karol Hausman, Sergey Levine, Chelsea Finn, Brian Ichter, Quan Vuong, Adnan Esmail, Lachy Groom
5. Mechanize - rl environments with an initial focus on sw engineering - Founders: Tamay Besiroglu, Matthew J Barnett, Ege Erdil
6. Lindy - AI agents for workflow automation - Founder: Flo Crivello
7. Forge - workflow automation for large enterprises - Founder: Markie Wagner
8. Reflection - agentic models with an initial focus on code - Founders: Misha Laskin, Ioannis Antonoglou
9. Fractal Software - venture studio building vertical SaaS companies - Founders: Nate Baker, Mike Furlong
10. Thinking Machines Lab - product-focused AI lab - Founders: Mira Murati, Barret Zoph, John Schulman, Lilian Weng, Andrew Tulloch, Luke Metz
11. Meter - managed internet and secure networking for offices hardware and software - Founders: Anil & Sunil Varanasi (brothers :))
12. Allen Institute for AI (AI2) - nonprofit AI research - Founder: Paul Allen (1953-2018)
13. Abridge - AI medical scribe - Founders: Shivdev Rao, Sandeep Konam, Zachary Lipton, Florian Metze
14. Higgsfield - video gen models and apps (mobile focused) - Founder: Alex Mashrabov
15. Black Forest Labs - FLUX image models - Founders: Robin Rombach, Patrick Esser, Andreas Blattmann
16. LMArena - LLM evals for big labs - Founders: Anastasios N Angelopoulos, Wei-Lin Chiang, Ion Stoica
17. Marathon Fusion - fuel for future fusion plants (and creating gold?) - Founders: Kyle Schiller, Adam Rutkowski
18. Luma AI - Dream Machine video model - Founders: Amit Jain, Alex Yu
19. Aravolta - software for data center monitoring and control - Founders: Margarita Groisman, Jack Sutton
20. Harmonic - AI math and reasoning lab - Founders: Vlad Tenev (Robinhood co-founder), Tudor Achim
21. Socket - prevent vulnerabilities from dependencies in your code - Founder: Feross Aboukhadijeh
22. Expo - framework and cloud platform for making cross platform apps - Founders: Charlie Cheever, James Ide
23. Koah Labs - native ads network for AI chatbots - Founders: Nic Baird, Herrick Fang, Mike Choi
24. Brisk Teaching - AI tool for teachers feedback, lesson plans and assessments - Founder: Arman Jaffer
25. Anysphere (Cursor) - AI code editor - Founders: Michael Truell, Aman Sanger, Sualeh Asif, Arvid Lunnemark
26. Letta - memory for ai agents - Founders: Charles Packer, Sarah Wooders
27. Baseten - serverless GPU hosting - Founders: Tuhin Srivastava, Amir Haghighat, Philip Howes, Pankaj Gupta
28. Mithril (prev ML Foundry) - GPU compute for training and inference - Founder: Jared Quincy Davis
29. Quill Meetings - AI notetaker for meetings - Founder: Michael Daugherty, add Nick Adams
30. Pluralis Research - multi-participant training of models, for cryptocurrency protocols I think - Founder: Alexander Long
31. Linear - issue and roadmap tracking - Founders: Karri Saarinen, Jori Lallo, Tuomas Artman
32. Qualia - real estate closing platform for title escrow and lenders - Founders: Nate Baker, Joel Gottsegen, Lucas Hansen
33. CodeRabbit - AI code review for pull requests - Founders: Harjot Singh Gill, Guritfaq Singh
34. Sygaldry Technologies - quantum computing for AI inference and training - Founders: Chad Rigetti, Idalia Friedson
35. HealthMC - AI powered medical coding - Founders: Ian Blumenfeld, Brian Johnson, Judah Rabinowitz
36. Lorikeet AI - AI that does customer support ticket resolution - Founders: Steve Hind, Jamie Hall
37. RL Core - RL for optimizing water and wastewater plants - Founders: Martha White, Adam White, Alden Christianson
38. Protege AI - a marketplace for AI datasets - Founders: Bobby Samuels, Travis May, Engy Ziedan, Richard Ho
39. Periodic Labs - AI driven materials discovery for energy and electronics - Founders: Ekin Dogus Cubuk, Liam Fedus (Ekin is ex GDM and Liam is ex OAI)
Thanks to the nominators: @calvinfo, @tamaybes, @Altimor, @lachygroom, @finbarrtimbers, @aranibatta, @MorganSchwanke, @AnjneyMidha, @jacobmbuckman, @ROWGHANI, @NWischoff, @ccheever, @herkhere, Nate Baker, @ianblu1, @dolaoseb, Anon, @FlintCasey, @cjc, @LilyPetherick & @auren
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lily petherick retweeted
Founders: there’s a clause in your term sheet that could silently strip you of your voting rights.
Even if you own a majority of your company.
Even if you’re the one who built it.
And most founders have no idea it’s there.
Let’s break it down 🧵
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Particularly obsessed with GitLaw - full contract review and creation with AI - much better than bunging contracts into GPT 🙈
Founders: go read your term sheet.
Check for red flags by using a tool like Git.Law (review any contract by chatting with AI) or Soxton.ai (AI-enabled full-stack law firm).
Look for language that ties voting rights to “providing services.”
If you see it, flag it.
Then ask: would you be okay losing your vote just because you're no longer full-time?
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lily petherick retweeted
I beg VCs everywhere, PLEASE stop using sports analogies
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Fantastic op in a great team.
We're hiring our first Technical Support Engineer at @dubdotco:
🌎 Fully remote (Americas / Europe timezone)
🥇 4+ years of experience in customer-facing technical roles
💰 $100K - $140K base + equity
Also launched a new Careers page if you're curious what it's like working at Dub 👇
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lily petherick retweeted
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Sarah is awesome 🤩
Flex GP @auren and @benchmark GP @sarahtavel explore how SaaS startups can beat incumbents with AI:
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lily petherick retweeted
🗣️LONDON🗣️ ANOTHER BODY will be coming to Curzon Soho on November 24th, followed by a Q+A with Directors @sophietaracompton and @urghreub, Producer @esewoodward, alongside guest speaker Comedian, @ameliadimz🎉
Get your tickets now to our UK theatrical run. #AnotherBody
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