Essays
  • Companies born in our universities need more than government spin. An oped for The Times.
  • Rewriting the European spinout playbook.
  • The State of AI Report 2022 analyses the most interesting developments in AI.
  • The State of AI Report 2021 analyses the most interesting developments in AI.
  • The State of AI Report 2020 analyses the most interesting developments in AI.
  • Building privacy-preserving, AI-first software products. A talk at OpenMined PriCon 2020.
  • 10 talks from AI-first entrepreneurs and researchers. Featuring Cerebras, ZOE, Broad Institute, Lyft Level 5, DeepMind, Oxford, Vermont, Zama, Google AI, and Moorfields Eye Hospital.
  • Key takeaways from the Air Street Summit: Investing in AI. Insights into AI-first startup investing, product building, selling companies, and investing in VC funds.
  • AI-first biology. I explain why the AI moment for biology is here and how AI-first biology startups can capture value.
  • 3 business personas in ML, their challenges and opportunities. In this piece, I describe three business personas that I have observed as well as their common challenges, technology stacks, talent requirements and organisational structure.
  • The case for building a full-stack machine learning company. In this piece, I make the case for operating as a “full-stack ML company” in order to maximize economic value capture.
  • 6 areas of AI and machine learning to watch closely. A popular essay on particularly noteworthy techniques that are likely to impact the future of digital products and services, why they are important and who is driving innovation for each.
  • 6 impactful applications of AI to the life sciences. In this essay, I describe what these ares are, why they are important, and how they might be applied in the real world (i.e. outside of academia or industrial research groups).

    • State of AI Report

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  • Will AI turbocharge the hunt for new drugs?. Commentary for FT's The Big Read.
  • AI has disappointed on Covid. An opinion piece for the Financial Times, Sept 2020.
  • Investing in Artificial Intelligence. An opinion piece for TechCrunch, Dec 2015.
  • The AI innovators who are blazing a trail into our future. I served on the judging committee for the WIRED Audi Innovation Awards recognising British AI pioneers. We filmed a fun introductory video here in June 2016.
  • The return of the machinery question. Commentary for The Economist, June 2016.
  • Why the US is buying up so many UK artificial intelligence companies. Commentary for Vice Motherboard, March 2016.
  • My path from academia into technology investing.

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