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Matt Clifford

@matthewclifford
22 posts
2025-01-27
My entire feed today is basically: “DeepSeek R1 is a huge moment that validates everything I previously thought about AI and all my existing policy and technical positions” 🙃
2025-01-27 View on X
Bloomberg

DeepSeek's iOS app tops the App Store's Top Free Apps chart in the US, beating ChatGPT, stirring doubts in Silicon Valley about the strength of the US' AI lead

- App's lower-cost model upends premise for AI spending boom  — Stocks of chip gear makers ASML and Advantest plunge

2025-01-26
Excellent take. While DeepSeek and the team behind R1 are super impressive, there's a huge amount of over correction going on...
2025-01-26 View on X
MIT Technology Review

Rather than weakening China's AI capabilities, US sanctions appear to be driving startups like DeepSeek to innovate by prioritizing efficiency and collaboration

The AI community is abuzz over DeepSeek R1, a new open-source reasoning model.  —  The model was developed by the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek …

Excellent take. While DeepSeek and the team behind R1 are super impressive, there's a huge amount of over correction going on...
2025-01-26 View on X
Financial Times

Industry insiders say DeepSeek's focus on research makes it a dangerous competitor as it's willing to share breakthroughs rather than protect them for profits

China is pulling the same trick.  —  www.ft.com/content/747a... Mastodon: Brian Kung / @briankung@hachyderm.io : “There's a pretty delicious, or maybe disconcerting irony to this, ...

2025-01-25
Excellent take. While DeepSeek and the team behind R1 are super impressive, there's a huge amount of over correction going on...
2025-01-25 View on X
VentureBeat

Yann LeCun says DeepSeek “profited from open research and open source” like Meta's Llama and is proof that open source models are surpassing proprietary ones

If you hadn't heard, there's a new AI star in town: DeepSeek, the subsidiary of Hong Kong-based quantitative analysis …

2024-08-20
When @Alicebentinck and I started @join_ef, Mike Lynch was one of the first people to take us seriously and was extremely kind. He came to speak to the first cohort back in 2012 (in our rent-free office up 99 stairs with no lift). Today's news is so sad 😞
2024-08-20 View on X
Associated Press

Ex-Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch, who was acquitted on US fraud charges in June 2024, is among six missing after a superyacht sank off Sicily, per Italian authorities

A luxury superyacht carrying foreign tourists capsized and sank off the Italian island of Sicily in bad weather early Monday.

2024-06-21
Impressive from Anthropic... plus UK state capacity in action! [image]
2024-06-21 View on X
TechCrunch

Anthropic launches Claude 3.5 Sonnet, which beats its flagship model Claude 3 Opus and outperforms GPT-4o in some tests, available for free on the web and iOS

OpenAI rival Anthropic is releasing a powerful new generative AI model called Claude 3.5 Sonnet.  But it's more an incremental step than a monumental leap forward.

Impressive from Anthropic... plus UK state capacity in action! [image]
2024-06-21 View on X
VentureBeat

Claude 3.5 Sonnet appears to be a tremendous leap for Anthropic and LLMs generally, and shows that AI model makers' performance gains are not slowing down

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat :

2024-04-03
This is a big deal - and further underlines the amazing progress the UK has made on state capacity in AI. Congratulations to the whole AISI team! [image]
2024-04-03 View on X
Financial Times

The US and the UK sign an agreement on how to test and assess risks from emerging AI models, marking the first bilateral arrangement on AI safety in the world

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times :

2024-04-02
This is a big deal - and further underlines the amazing progress the UK has made on state capacity in AI. Congratulations to the whole AISI team! [image]
2024-04-02 View on X
Financial Times

The US and the UK sign an agreement on how to test and assess risks from emerging AI models, marking the first bilateral arrangement on AI safety in the world

Allies reach world's first bilateral deal as global governments seek to assess and regulate risks from emerging technology

2023-11-02
Huge moment to have both Secretary Raimondo of the US and Vice Minister Wu of China speaking about AI safety and governance at the AI Safety Summit [image]
2023-11-02 View on X
TechCrunch

At the UK's AI Safety Summit, the UK releases the Bletchley Declaration, signed by 28 countries and the EU, and the US announces an AI Safety Institute

from government to civil society to the private sector — must work together to build a future where AI creates opportunity, advances equity, and protects fundamental rights and fre...

Next big AI Safety Summit moment: the communique agreed by all participating countries, including the US, EU and China. First global agreement on frontier AI risks and opportunities: https://www.gov.uk/...
2023-11-02 View on X
TechCrunch

At the UK's AI Safety Summit, the UK releases the Bletchley Declaration, signed by 28 countries and the EU, and the US announces an AI Safety Institute

from government to civil society to the private sector — must work together to build a future where AI creates opportunity, advances equity, and protects fundamental rights and fre...

Huge moment to have both Secretary Raimondo of the US and Vice Minister Wu of China speaking about AI safety and governance at the AI Safety Summit [image]
2023-11-02 View on X
Wired

The Office of Management and Budget releases draft rules for US federal agencies to assess AI in health care, law enforcement, and housing for potential harms

Draft rules from the White House would require federal agencies to assess AI systems currently in use in law enforcement …

Next big AI Safety Summit moment: the communique agreed by all participating countries, including the US, EU and China. First global agreement on frontier AI risks and opportunities: https://www.gov.uk/...
2023-11-02 View on X
Wired

The Office of Management and Budget releases draft rules for US federal agencies to assess AI in health care, law enforcement, and housing for potential harms

Draft rules from the White House would require federal agencies to assess AI systems currently in use in law enforcement …

2023-11-01
Next big AI Safety Summit moment: the communique agreed by all participating countries, including the US, EU and China. First global agreement on frontier AI risks and opportunities: https://www.gov.uk/...
2023-11-01 View on X
TechCrunch

At the UK's AI Safety Summit, the UK releases the Bletchley Declaration, signed by 29 countries, and the US Commerce Secretary announces an AI Safety Institute

The world is locked in a race, and competition, over dominance in AI, but today, a few of them appeared to come together …

Huge moment to have both Secretary Raimondo of the US and Vice Minister Wu of China speaking about AI safety and governance at the AI Safety Summit [image]
2023-11-01 View on X
TechCrunch

At the UK's AI Safety Summit, the UK releases the Bletchley Declaration, signed by 29 countries, and the US Commerce Secretary announces an AI Safety Institute

The world is locked in a race, and competition, over dominance in AI, but today, a few of them appeared to come together …

2023-08-28
Excited for @ARIA_research to start saying more about what we've been doing: this @FT interview with @ilangur is a great preview. We'll be sharing much more about our first Programme Directors and how we'll collaborate with the R&D community next month... https://www.ft.com/...
2023-08-28 View on X
Financial Times

A look at the UK's new DARPA-inspired Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), which has a four-year £800M budget to invest in breakthrough tech like AI

2023-08-27
Excited for @ARIA_research to start saying more about what we've been doing: this @FT interview with @ilangur is a great preview. We'll be sharing much more about our first Programme Directors and how we'll collaborate with the R&D community next month... https://www.ft.com/...
2023-08-27 View on X
Financial Times

A look at the UK's new DARPA-inspired Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), which has a four-year £800M budget to invest in breakthrough tech like AI

Head of Advanced Research and Invention Agency tells FT it has appointed directors charged with selecting projects X: @braincures , @drdrasko , @clivecookson , @braincures , @workm...

2023-06-19
It's been an honour advising the Government on the creation of the AI Taskforce and I'm delighted that we've been able to secure someone as expert, principled and ambitious as Ian Hogarth as its first Chair. The coming months will be exciting... https://www.gov.uk/...
2023-06-19 View on X
Reuters

The UK names Ian Hogarth to lead its AI Foundation Model Taskforce; Hogarth co-founded concert discovery service Songkick, which Warner Music acquired in 2017

some thoughts on the UK's Foundation Model Taskforce and regulation by Twitter Ryan Morrison / Tech Monitor : Investor and entrepreneur Ian Hogarth to lead UK AI Taskforce Robert S...

2023-05-13
Wow. Super impressive. https://twitter.com/...
2023-05-13 View on X
TechCrunch

Anthropic expands Claude's context window from 9K to 100K tokens, or ~75K words it can digest and analyze; OpenAI's GPT-4 has a context window of ~32K tokens

2023-05-12
Wow. Super impressive. https://twitter.com/...
2023-05-12 View on X
TechCrunch

Anthropic expands Claude's context window from 9K to 100K tokens, or ~75K words it can digest and analyze; OpenAI's GPT-4 has a context window of ~32K tokens

Historically and even today, poor memory has been an impediment to the usefulness of text-generating AI.