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If foundation model economics is alchemy, what does that mean for hardware?

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Revisiting our work on European readiness.

It’s been close to six months since we published our report covering the challenges early-stage defense companies face in Europe. Since then, we’ve seen a rush of defense-related announcements from European governments, speculation about the future of US support for the Ukrainian war effort, and the Russian military continuing to step up its offensive.

Given the pace of developments, we’re re-examining our initial work and assessing what’s changed, what hasn’t, some points we didn’t evaluate last time, and where we go from here.

Yesterday, I was the opening act at the MIT Tech Review EmTech Digital conference, where I spoke about how easy it is to miss step changes in AI progress among the day-to-day swirl.

This prompted a series of reflections, which I’ve laid out in this blog.

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Profluent releases the world’s first open source AI-generated gene editor.

You can read more in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/22/technology/generative-ai-gene-editing-crispr.html

We dive into data acquisitions strategies for AI-first start-ups, including scraping, synthetic data, annotation, labelling, simulation, data marketplaces, data sharing, gamification and more, with a focus on generative ai and deep learning.