Ian Hogarth
@soundboy
investor at @pluralplatform, chair UK AI Security Institute, co-founder @songkick
1/ 18 months into @pluralplatform, we’ve raised a new €400M fund. This is an endorsement of the first 26 teams we’ve backed and the level of ambition now emerging from Europe: techcrunch.com/2024/01/22/plu…
Matt is such a remarkable force for good in the UK. Very grateful for all he does.
As reported, I’ll be stepping back from my role as the Prime Minister’s Adviser on AI at the end of July. This will have been a yearlong “tour of duty”, first writing, then delivering the AI Opportunities Action Plan from No 10. A quick thread on why and what's next:
Alex is excellent - great to see another UK founder stepping up to help the country
Rachel Reeves hires Alex Depledge as UK entrepreneurship adviser on.ft.com/45vEefZ
Good to see Sizewell C moving ahead news.sky.com/story/uk-gives…
UK stand up tall!
Isambard-AI was turned on by Tech Sec Peter Kyle today, after being built in a year on what was a car park in Bristol and is now being offered up to all UK scientists and some businesses to use its compute power… insiders told me for the first time it had enough training power…
Update from @alxndrdavies on the @AISecurityInst's work on improving agent safeguards with @OpenAI
We at @AISecurityInst worked with @OpenAI to test & improve Agent’s safeguards prior to release. A few notes on our experience🧵 1/4
Absolutely incredible that a country with a population of 23m people has produced a trillion dollar tech company: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_p…
China appears to be the only 'energy maximalist' country right now - coal, gas, fission, solar, wind hydro, fusion - investing across the board
Increasingly think this might be the most important chart in the world right now
This is insanely cool
We just delivered an ENTIRE BLOCK of 8 houses near in Assendelft (near Amsterdam). All the brickwork was entirely done with a fleet of 5 of Monumental's robots (yes, including the corners) working together, a first in the world.
🚨🚨Today we begin the search for @ARIA_research's next CEO It's not often you get to hire for a role that you believe is not only someone's dream job, but genuinely one of the highest impact opportunities in the world... but this is it.. 🧵🧵
Big news: we’re kicking off the search for ARIA’s next CEO. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to lead one of the most ambitious orgs in science and tech. 1/8
I don't understand @elonmusk's framing re there being two options: participant that accelerates or passive spectator. Feels unusually fatalistic for someone so high agency. He didn't just accept e.g. climate change - he founded Tesla and changed the direction of the whole system
Elon Musk: "Tesla works closely with xAI. You've seen how many humanoid robot startups there are. Part of what I've been fighting — and what has slowed me down a little — is that I don't want to make Terminator real. Until recent years, I've been dragging my feet on AI and…
What is the goal US tech people have when cherrypicking things to attack about Europe? (see also, plastic bottlecaps etc). To take this latest example by Sheel, you could also appreciate that Europe also produces more masters degrees in plasma physics or photonics than the US.
In Europe, you can get a Masters degree in Degrowth
Europe stand up tall.
1. @pluralplatform is deepening its commitment to @HelsingAI as part of their €600m raise with the utmost confidence that it is going to be the next €100bn+ category leader emerging from Europe, in the industry most in need - Defence.
I've had the privilege of getting to know Blaise Metreweli as part of my work building the @AISecurityInst. She's excellent. Great choice to lead MI6 theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/j…
Really delighted with the outcome of the Spending Review: £2bn to support the AI Opportunities Action Plan, including £500m for SovereignAI. So much to do but this gives the UK a great foundation.
Sunrise epitomises the new ambition in Europe - playing to win a huge new global opportunity.
1. Our mission at @pluralplatform is to back the most ambitious founders building companies that could change the future and have GDP-level impact. That’s why we’re investing $8.5m in @sunriserobots, as it emerges from stealth to transform European manufacturing.