Matt Clifford
@matthewclifford
Co-founder @join_ef; Chair @ARIA_Research; 🇬🇧 PM’s Adviser on AI Opportunities
1/ Today the Prime Minister published my AI Opportunities Action Plan for the UK and committed to implement all its recommendations. A quick thread on why this is important, what we need to do now - and how you can help
Hard problems require great builders. We're bringing together Europe's best. If you're one of them, join us in Germany from the 10-13th of October. Find out more and sign up here: lnkd.in/dAJecvR5 @join_ef @lakestarvc @PalantirTech @patrickrxss
Characteristically excellent from Stian
An important element of the new @ESRC strategy we are working on is to make the promotion of economic growth an explicit goal of our work. I've written a short piece about why we're doing this, and what that might involve.
I usually say the best response to negative updates on AI progress is “wait six months”… but in this case it was “wait eight hours”
So, all the models underperform humans on the new International Mathematical Olympiad questions, and Grok-4 is especially bad on it, even with best-of-n selection? Unbelievable!
This is very impressive - and surprising, at least to me. Worth reading the whole thread.
Today, we at @OpenAI achieved a milestone that many considered years away: gold medal-level performance on the 2025 IMO with a general reasoning LLM—under the same time limits as humans, without tools. As remarkable as that sounds, it’s even more significant than the headline 🧵
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
Great to see UK @AISecurityInst publish work of this quality. Interesting throughout, worth a read.
In a new paper, we examine recent claims that AI systems have been observed ‘scheming’, or making strategic attempts to mislead humans. We argue that to test these claims properly, more rigorous methods are needed.
Europe's great founders must unretire
Europe's best founders retire too early. While successful American CEOs take on increasingly ambitious projects, many great European entrepreneurs tap out long before they've lost their touch. Why? @torstenreil and I unpack in our latest piece.
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…
I’m excited about this: 12 month fellowship for AI engineers to work on some of the biggest challenges in government👇
We want the UK's top AI experts to join us for a 12-month fellowship building cutting-edge AI tools for public services - funded by @Meta's $1m grant to @TuringInst. From national security translation to planning approvals - deliver the Plan for Change with open-source AI.
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 🧵👇
Being at @jointhebridge is a dream coming true. Can’t wait for what’s to come 🚀🚀
they're here. 39 founders. 20+ countries. the bridge begins
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 🧵👇
Great evening at the @inferencemag debate on the potential for an intelligence explosion. Excellent contributions from @tylercowen, @TomDavidsonX, @NPCollapse and Mike Webb. Bravo @jackwiseman_ for organising and moderating!
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 🧵👇