Tom Westgarth
@Tom_Westgarth15
UK Govt Sovereign AI Unit. @InstituteGC (Science & Tech Policy). AI Policy. State Capacity. R&D. Bridging tech and policy worlds @txp_io
🚨Excited to announce that the Sovereign AI Unit is investing £8m in OpenBind: building the world's largest protein-ligand dataset. Backed by a top UK consortium, inc. Isomorphic Labs and Nobel Laureate David Baker, this will help the UK become the home for AI drug design 1/6🧵
Introducing Latent-X — our all-atom frontier AI model for protein binder design. State-of-the-art lab performance, widely accessible via the Latent Labs Platform. Free tier: platform.latentlabs.com Blog: latentlabs.com/latent-x/ Technical report: tinyurl.com/latent-X
In the AI Action Plan, I called for a compute roadmap to give long-term clarity to the academic and startup communities. Today, the Government has published it - have a read below…
We’re delivering national priorities with our Compute Roadmap📍 But what does it mean for you?
how it’s going An incredible honor to welcome the inaugural class of Encode Fellows with a round table discussion on AI for Science at 10 Downing Street! We are so grateful to work with our partners at @ARIA_research and @SciTechgovuk. @pippyjames @matthewclifford
🚀 Fellowship applications are OPEN for Encode: AI for Science. What if you could use AI to - Design shape-shifting robots - See through solid materials - Decode language of the brain - Create advanced materials
10 Downing Street is taking over the Design Museum to show potential applicants what previous Innovation Fellows have built during their tours of duty in government. Join us on 30th July to see the demos over drinks and meet the current Innovation Fellows & 10 Data Science team,…
@10DowningStreet recently wrote to SoTA's community. They're assembling a new, elite team of technologists to 'fundamentally rewire the state' and 'transform No10 and key areas of the government system through the applications of data science and AI'. Read the full letter to…
Calling all weekend grafters - the deadline for this is Monday! A small number of academics have the opportunity to get a large number of GPUs!
Many top academic AI researchers are GPU poor. The Sovereign AI Unit wants to change this story. We are seeking ambitious AI research proposals for UK academics aiming to take their research to the next level. Read below to find out more and apply 🧵👇
I wish data centers would offer tours to the public and schools could take field trips to them. They are the defining pieces of infrastructure of our generation, but unlike railroads, the grid, or anything else, we never get to see them and experience their scale.
Fisher's slow cancellation of the future is fittingly timeless Every line a banger, and yardstick
if you’re a uk-based academic and have an ai project that could use a bunch of gpu’s, now’s your time to grab some for free: details below!
Many top academic AI researchers are GPU poor. The Sovereign AI Unit wants to change this story. We are seeking ambitious AI research proposals for UK academics aiming to take their research to the next level. Read below to find out more and apply 🧵👇
UK academics: escape GPU poverty! SovAI wants to help… More below👇
Many top academic AI researchers are GPU poor. The Sovereign AI Unit wants to change this story. We are seeking ambitious AI research proposals for UK academics aiming to take their research to the next level. Read below to find out more and apply 🧵👇
Great writeup from a former US Department of Energy insider on some of the work that we have been doing on UK AI for science capabilities, and what the US administration can learn from us!
While all eyes have been on the U.S.’s dramatic science policy shifts, the rest of the world hasn’t stood still. My round-up of U.K. investments in AI for Science—including OpenBind, new supercomputers, and self-driving labs—shows a distinct strategic trajectory