Tom Hulme
@thulme
Managing Partner @GVTeam (Google Ventures) http://gv.com // MBE // Reservist // http://thulme.com Previously founded @OpenIDEO @IDEO
My TED talk has now had over 1.5 million views (the power of Ted rather than the power of Tom) thul.me/28WL2sR
Hallucination, agentic systems, and the cost of building frontier AI. @ZacharyGleicher of @GoogleDeepMind and I covered that and more at @GVTeam’s AI Builder Event last week. See what else we discussed: gv.com/news/deepmind-…

Congratulations @skathire and the Verve team. It's been incredible to be part of the journey from incubation to acquisition by @EliLillyandCo. On to the next milestone!
Today, we take the next step in Verve’s journey: the acquisition by @EliLillyandCo is now complete. From the founding of Verve in 2018 to this milestone in 2025, we have worked with urgency and conviction to advance a bold idea — that a single-course gene editing medicine could…
Three primary drivers for why businesses are growing faster than ever via @thulme: Distribution: “The whole world is effectively addressable” Scalability: “The tech can scale to billions of users” Low Friction: “Generative AI is often a conversational interface”
Looking forward to our first AI Builders NYC event in a few weeks. We’ll hear from @EricSimons of @boltdotnew, @zachlloydtweets of @warpdotdev and Zach Gleicher from @deepmind. If you’re building something in NYC, there’s still some room to join us lu.ma/w0smc6cs

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Thrilled to finally share what we've been working on for months at @huggingface 🤝@pollenrobotics Our first robot: Reachy Mini A dream come true: cute and low priced, hackable yet easy to use, powered by open-source and the infinite community. Tiny price, small size, huge…
The all-new Glyph Matrix redefines how a smartphone communicates—bringing a dynamic, independent interface that makes technology feel fresh, intuitive, and uniquely yours. This is the future of interaction. Phone (3). Come to Play.
“This is clearly going to be an era of voice,” GV Managing Partner and Head of Europe @thulme said at @cerebral_valley London. Every day, more people are sending voice notes or vocalizing their questions to an AI. This is the future of communication and GV portfolio companies…
now wouldn't that be something...
Let me play a video game of my veo 3 videos already. Google cooked so good 👌 @OfficialLoganK playable world models wen?
Headphone (1) is here. Come to Play. Pre-order yours. 4 July.
Big day for us at Nothing. We just announced Headphone (1), our first over-ear headphones, and Phone (3), our most refined smartphone yet. Both designed in London. Both the result of countless late nights and relentless iteration from an amazing team. Incredible to see the…
My panel with @janatindex from @IndexVentures , @pbotteri from @Accel & @EricNewcomer is up on @cerebral_valley podcast here on Spotify also @Wayve_AI CEO @alexgkendall and @dkhos from our largest ever investment @Uber open.spotify.com/episode/28BXtD…

I'm proud to have been awarded an MBE in the King's Birthday Honors list for services to the military. I've been a Reservist for nearly a decade, and humbled to work alongside one of our most elite regiments, the @BritishArmy and @UKStratCom more broadly. They are, to some…