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Air Street PressAir Street PressState of AI Compute Index v4 (June 2025)Today, we release v4 of the You'll now find updated counts as of June 2025 for AI research papers using chips from NVIDIA, TPUs, Apple, Huawei, AMD, ASICs, FPGAs, and AI semi startups, as well as updates to A100 H100/200 cluster sizes. We also include new data on the most and least commonly used chips for specific research topic areas. State of AI Report Compute Index in collaboration with Zeta Alpha. 2025-06-3009 minAir Street PressAir Street PressThe AI rollup mirage and the risk of repeating old mistakesAcross the technology investing world, investors are scaling their bets on a seductive thesis: Generative AI will transform low-margin service businesses into high-margin software companies. Several well-known platform venture firms have committed billions to this strategy and have begun to make their bets. This essay is co-authored by Nathan Benaich and Nikola Mrksic, CEO of PolyAI.2025-06-2708 minAir Street PressAir Street PressFrom research to production with Gemini and Paige BaileyAt this year’s RAAIS, Paige Bailey of Google DeepMind delivered her talk on AI research to production with interactive demos and a clear thesis: “I’m going to show you how to automate significant parts of your work.” Generative models are now a co-author, a debugger, a lab assistant, a video editor. And increasingly, models are doing the work behind the curtain while you coach and edit. Here’s her talk and a narrative of the key insights:2025-06-2604 minAir Street PressAir Street PressTen years of RAAIS. Day one in AI.A decade is a familiar yardstick for measuring progress. In that time, we tend to expect  steady, incremental change. Historically, meaningful change tends to unfold slowly. In AI, however, the last ten years has been a story of "gradually, then suddenly". The weekly model launches we are now accustomed to feel incremental in the heat of the moment, but a ten-year look back reveals a landscape transformed by something that feels closer to magic.At our 9th Research and Applied AI Summit (RAAIS), we brought together the people building the next decade. Researchers, founders, and policymakers who h...2025-06-2405 minAir Street PressAir Street Press‘Sovereign AI’ is political branding. The reality is closer to digital colonialismOn AI factories, sovereign AI and what this means for national AI strategies. This article originally appeared on Fortune.com and can be read here for free.2025-06-0904 minAir Street PressAir Street PressGuide to AI: June 2025What you need to know in AI across geopolitics, big tech, hardware, research, models, datasets, financings and exits over the last 4 weeks. 2025-06-0836 minAir Street PressAir Street PressBritain’s Defence Strategy: from diagnosis to deliveryOur read of the UK's Ministry of Defence Strategic Defence Review 2025. 2025-06-0208 minAir Street PressAir Street PressResearch and Applied AI Summit: celebrating 10 yearsBringing you the best of AI today and what’s coming tomorrow.2025-05-3005 minAir Street PressAir Street PressHedera Dx raises €15M Series AScaling on-site precision oncology infrastructure and real-world data.2025-05-3007 minAir Street PressAir Street PressIs the EU AI Act actually useful?Born pre-GPT-4 to shape the world of GPT-7.2025-05-2712 minAir Street PressAir Street PressWhat Wall Street didn't see comingGenerative models, reinforcement learning, model efficiency, DeepMind and NVIDIA's impact weren't top of mind on Wall Street back in 2016...2025-05-2306 minAir Street PressAir Street PressThe AI Factory IllusionWhere politics and power meet AI. In recent months, a subtle but politically astute rebranding has propagated across the AI industry. Leading figures like NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang and OpenAI’s Sam Altman are no longer calling the backbone of AI infrastructure "AI data centers." Instead, they refer to them as "AI factories."At first glance, this might seem like hype-driven marketing speak. But the intent and implications of this linguistic shift are anything but trivial. The rebranding is deeply political, aligning Silicon Valley’s ambitions with nationalist industrial policy, particularly the Trump-era vision of reshor...2025-05-2007 minAir Street PressAir Street PressGuide to AI: May 2025Welcome to the latest issue of your guide to AI, an editorialized newsletter covering the key developments in AI policy, research, industry, and start-ups over the last month. 2025-05-1131 minAir Street PressAir Street PressDelian Alliance Industries launches Interceptigon autonomous strike systemsExpanding its product range as an emerging defense prime.2025-05-0805 minAir Street PressAir Street PressBiology has scaling laws tooOn Profluent’s launch of ProGen3, a new family of protein language models trained on over 3.4 billion protein sequences. 2025-05-0605 minAir Street PressAir Street PressYour guide to AI: April 2025What you need to know in AI across geopolitics, big tech, hardware, research, models, datasets, financings and exits over the last 4 weeks. 2025-04-0632 minAir Street PressAir Street PressOur investment in Polar MistBuilding European maritime supremacy.2025-04-0404 minAir Street PressAir Street PressStaking your groundWhy startups should push an ambitious public-facing agenda from day one2025-03-2305 minAir Street PressAir Street PressGuide to AI: March 2025What you need to know in AI across geopolitics, big tech, hardware, research, models, datasets, financings and exits over the last 4 weeks. 2025-03-0236 minAir Street PressAir Street PressSee you in Berlin, Munich and Zurich!We’re about to set off to bring Air Street AI meetups to Berlin on Thursday 20th Feb, Munich on Tuesday 25th Feb and Zurich on the 4th March. We focus these events on a) best practices that entrepreneurs and researchers can learn from and b) attracting the very best contributors and heavily curating event attendance to make sure that everyone makes high-value connections. Each event will host circa 100 people and to facilitate connections we share the list of attendees ahead of time so you’re able to get a head start on meeting those you want to connect with...2025-02-1803 minAir Street PressAir Street PressOur investment in Fern Labs$3M day one financing to build multi-agent systems for real-world problems.Learn more at www.fern-labs.ai2025-02-0902 minAir Street PressAir Street PressState of AI outtakes #2: embodied AIThe State of AI Report aims to provide a comprehensive overview of everything you need to know across AI research, industry, politics, and safety. To ensure the report remains at a manageable length, lots of material doesn’t make it into the final version. We’re bringing Air Street Press some of the research that didn’t make the original cut, along with our own reflections. Read more on press.airstreet.com and www.stateof.ai2025-02-0407 minAir Street PressAir Street PressGuide to AI: January 2025Welcome to the latest issue of your guide to AI, an editorialized newsletter covering the key developments in AI policy, research, industry, and start-ups over the last month. 2025-02-0131 minAir Street PressAir Street PressUK defence and dynamismAir Street’s submission to the UK Strategic Defence Review. You can read more at press.airstreet.com and https://press.airstreet.com/p/uk-defence-and-dynamism2025-01-2613 minAir Street PressAir Street PressVibe shifts: Microsoft and Google on AIThe dawning AI-first era is creating clear winners and losers. Here we dive into the vibe shift of both Microsoft and Google in their work on AI. 2025-01-2306 minAir Street PressAir Street Press91% of AI papers used NVIDIA in 2024Final 2024 statistics for AI chip usage across NVIDIA, Google, Huawei, Apple, AMD, Cerebras, Cambricon, Graphcore, Groq, SambaNova, and Intel Habana in the State of AI Report Compute Index. 2025-01-2103 minAir Street PressAir Street PressAnnouncing Sereact's €25M Series AScaling AI-first software for general purpose robotics.2025-01-2002 minAir Street PressAir Street PressAI-first biology: five years onRevisiting my 2019 lecture on why biology was experiencing its AI moment. Read more at press.airstreet.com and https://press.airstreet.com/p/ai-first-biology-five-years-on2025-01-1918 minAir Street PressAir Street PressVibe shifts: is AI still an existential risk?The dawning AI-first era is creating clear winners and losers. We’re seeing giants of the past lose ground, while companies that few initially believed in defy their sceptics. At the same time, the terms of big macro debates in the field seemingly change overnight. In this “vibe shifts” series, we’ll be diving into some of these stories and drawing a few lessons for entrepreneurs and investors. Here we dive into the vibe shift around existential risk.2025-01-1706 minAir Street PressAir Street PressProfluent unveils Protein2PAMNew research from Profluent Bio validates the power of machine learning models to design bespoke biological systems at scale. 2025-01-1402 minAir Street PressAir Street PressHow not to build a droneHow the EU spent 16 years and €8 billion on a drone that may never fly. You can read the essay on press.airstreet.com at https://press.airstreet.com/p/how-not-to-build-a-drone2025-01-1212 minAir Street PressAir Street PressAir Street: 2024 year in reviewIn the spirit of building in the open and holding ourselves accountable to our progress, here is our year in review for 2024. We cover Air Street, Air Street Press, the State of AI Report, and our community engagement.2025-01-1016 minThe Gradient: Perspectives on AIThe Gradient: Perspectives on AI2024 in AI, with Nathan BenaichEpisode 142Happy holidays! This is one of my favorite episodes of the year — for the third time, Nathan Benaich and I did our yearly roundup of all the AI news and advancements you need to know. This includes selections from this year’s State of AI Report, some early takes on o3, a few minutes LARPing as China Guys……… If you’ve stuck around and continue to listen, I’m really thankful you’re here. I love hearing from you. You can find Nathan and Air Street Press here on Substack and on Twitter, LinkedIn...2024-12-261h 48Azeem Azhar\'s Exponential ViewAzeem Azhar's Exponential ViewAI in 2025 – The great normalisation, with Nathan BenaichNathan Benaich, Founder and General Partner of Air Street Capital, joins me to discuss AI in 2025. From runaway consumer adoption to evolving enterprise moats, from still-elusive AI-driven drug breakthroughs to the renewed vigour in robotics, several core themes stood out.1. Frontier models & AI at scaleIn 2024, we witnessed the astonishing growth of frontier models and their deployment on a massive scale. OpenAI’s GPT-4 and GPT-4 o1, Anthropic’s Claude and Google’s Gemini have all demonstrated that being “at the frontier” is increasingly the price of admission.2. Consumers, voice and infinite worldsOn th...2024-12-2646 minAir Street PressAir Street Press2024's greatest hits on Air Street PressWe share our best essays from 2024 on Air Street Press. 2024-12-2206 minAir Street PressAir Street PressThe AI energy wars will get worse before they get betterWe dive into the AI energy wars, arguing that things will get worse before they get better. Read on for uranium, geopolitics, and why technical fixes likely aren’t coming to the rescue. 2024-12-2217 minAir Street PressAir Street PressOdyssey launches Explorer and welcomes Pixar founder to the BoardThe company's first generative world model and Pixar's co-founder, Ed Catmull, joins the Board and invests. Learn more at press.airstreet.com and odyseey.systems2024-12-1902 minAir Street PressAir Street PressJeremy Kahn (Fortune) on Mastering AIJeremy Kahn is the AI editor at Fortune and co-writes and edits Fortune’s Eye on AI newsletter. His book Mastering AI: A Survival Guide to Our Superpowered Future was published by Simon and Schuster in the U.S. In this episode, we interview Jeremy about his new book! You can subscribe for more at press.airstreet.com2024-12-1724 minAir Street PressAir Street PressState of AI outtakes #3: US politicsThe State of AI Report aims to provide a comprehensive overview of everything you need to know across AI research, industry, politics, and safety. To ensure the report remains at a manageable length, lots of material doesn’t make it into the final version. We’re bringing Air Street Press some of the research that didn’t make the original cut, along with our own reflections. You can read more on press.airstreet.com and check out the full State of AI Report 2024 at www.stateof.ai2024-12-1506 minAir Street PressAir Street PressStreet talk #1 - 13 December 2024Every month, we produce the ⁠Guide to AI⁠, an editorialized roundup covering geopolitics, hardware, start-ups, research, and fundraising. But so much happens in the AI world, that weeks can feel like years. So on off-weeks for Guide to AI, we’ll be bringing you three things that grabbed our attention from the past few days… You can subscribe for more at press.airstreet.com2024-12-1305 minAir Street PressAir Street PressBeing first is a moatThis week on Air Street Press - we’re looking at how speed, inertia, and friction impact AI-first start-ups. Why being first is a moat, taking examples from ElevenLabs, Perplexity and Synthesia. As well as some failure cases like Internet Explorer and ActiveX. You can subscribe at press.airstreet.com2024-12-1215 minAir Street PressAir Street PressVibe shifts #1: IntelHow Intel lost its way in AI and comes tumbling down. On Air Street Press, we’re starting a new “vibe shifts” series, where we’ll look at some of these stories and draw a few lessons for entrepreneurs and investors. First off: Intel Corporation. Subscribe to read more at press.airstreet.com You can read this post at airstreet.com/intel 2024-12-1008 minAir Street PressAir Street PressGuide to AI - December 2024Welcome to the latest issue of your guide to AI, an editorialized newsletter covering the key developments in AI policy, research, industry, and startups over the month of November 2024. Read more at press.airstreet.com and guideto.ai2024-12-0825 minAir Street PressAir Street PressStreet talk #1 - 6 December 2024Every month, we produce the Guide to AI, an editorialized roundup covering geopolitics, hardware, start-ups, research, and fundraising. But so much happens in the AI world, that weeks can feel like years. So on off-weeks for Guide to AI, we’ll be bringing you three things that grabbed our attention from the past few days…2024-12-0705 minAir Street PressAir Street PressGuide to AI - November 2024Welcome to the latest issue of your guide to AI, an editorialized newsletter covering the key developments in AI policy, research, industry, and startups over the last month. 2024-12-0625 minAir Street PressAir Street PressBio-defense(less)?Biorisk is real, but we’re having the wrong debates. Could the AI-first bio tools we use to design life-saving vaccines also be used to evade the screening protocols of DNA synthesis companies? How easy is it for non-state actors to use these tools? How worried should we be? We dive into all of this and more in this article on Air Street Press. Read more at: https://press.airstreet.com/p/bio-defenseless 2024-12-0517 minThe MAD Podcast with Matt TurckThe MAD Podcast with Matt TurckState of AI 2024: Frontier Models, AI Geopolitics and The Robotics Renaissance | Nathan Benaich, Founder, Air Street CapitalNathan Benaich, founder and GP at VC firm Air Street Capital, publishes every year "State of AI", one of the most widely-read and comprehensive reports on all things AI across research, industry, and policy. In this episode, we sit down with Nathan to discuss some of the highlights of the 2024 edition of the report, including the "vibes" shift in the industry from existential risk concerns last year to the current monetization race, the financial success of the foundation model labs, how a generative AI app could top the Apple Store charts in 2025, and the challenges facing humanoid robotics. 2024-11-1451 minAir Street PressAir Street PressReflections on ReflectionWhat a four day meltdown tells us about standards and scrutiny.2024-11-0211 minAir Street PressAir Street PressAI isn't the dotcom bubble Reflections on the State of AI Report, by Air Street Capital.2024-10-3110 minAir Street PressAir Street PressState of AI outtakes #1: scaling in defenseThe State of AI Report aims to provide a comprehensive overview of everything you need to know across AI research, industry, politics, and safety. To ensure the report remains at a manageable length, lots of material doesn’t make it into the final version. We’re bringing Air Street Press readers some of the research that didn’t make the original cut, subsequent follow-up work, and our reflections.2024-10-2607 minAir Street PressAir Street PressOur investment in Patina SystemsShifting creative control from companies to people.2024-09-1703 minAir Street PressAir Street PressGood technology doesn’t speak for itselfWhy storytelling matters from inception to IPO and beyond.2024-09-1514 minAir Street PressAir Street PressGuide to AI - September 2024Welcome to the latest issue of your guide to AI, an editorialized newsletter covering the key developments in AI policy, research, industry, and startups over the last month.2024-09-0130 minAir Street PressAir Street PressRediscovering the UK's AI ambitionAt the end of July, the UK Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology commissioned Matt Clifford, Chair of the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), to produce a roadmap on how the government can harness the benefits for AI to drive growth and productivity. As part of this work, Alex attended a roundtable at 10 Downing Street and stakeholders have been invited to share their thoughts in writing with the taskforce.  As believers in openness as a driver of progress, we share our unvarnished views publicly, not just behind closed doors. So in that spirit, we’re...2024-08-2211 minAir Street PressAir Street PressOpen-endedness is all we’ll needOn “Agentic AI”: This week, we’re asking how far along this road we are towards agentic AI, looking at some of the more promising research threads, and assessing where value might be found in the meantime2024-08-1517 minAir Street PressAir Street PressThe cathedral and the bazaarOpenness is not a strategy. Given our past advocacy for open source and skepticism of the ‘bigger is always better’ paradigm, we felt it worth asking if these breakthroughs mark a tipping point in AI research and commercialization. As ever, the answer is … complicated.2024-08-0813 minAir Street PressAir Street PressGuide to AI - August 2024While we work on the State of AI Report 2024, this summer edition covers our 8th Research and Applied AI Summit, held in London on 14 June. 2024-08-0415 minAir Street PressAir Street PressAlchemy doesn’t scale: the economics of general intelligenceToday we're asking if something approaching ‘general intelligence’ did begin to become available, does it invalidate our thesis that alchemy doesn't scale?2024-08-0312 minAir Street PressAir Street PressThe State of Chinese AIWe dive into the SOTA from Chinese AI labs, the chip wars, sanctions, and loopholes.2024-08-0117 minAir Street PressAir Street PressThe power of non-consensusAt Air Street, we search for ideas that are non-consensus today but have the potential to flip into being voted consensus by the market in a few years' time. We see this in founders who are working on unfashionable ideas that are difficult to pull off. These teams have a deep-seated conviction that the weight of evidence is on their side and the timing is right to chip away at the problem.  2024-07-3012 minAir Street PressAir Street PressCopyright is the wrong hill to die onThe generative AI copyright wars took a new turn recently, when the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announced that it was suing music generation services Suno and Udio for massive infringement of copyright. The lawsuit alleges the systematic unauthorized use of copyrighted works to train the two companies’ models and points to how some of their output either closely resembles or directly copies various iconic songs. 2024-07-2513 minAir Street PressAir Street PressOur investment into OdysseyPowering breakthrough visual storytelling with AI-first visual effects for Hollywood.2024-07-2304 minAir Street PressAir Street PressGuide to AI - July 2024Welcome to the latest issue of your guide to AI, an editorialized newsletter covering the key developments in AI policy, research, industry, and startups over the last month.2024-07-0728 minAir Street PressAir Street PressAlchemy is all you needThere are also specific dynamics at play in the frontier model space that will likely prevent the market from correcting in the near future. These have the potential to impact the entire AI value chain, from the chipmakers through to investors and founders.2024-06-1116 minAir Street PressAir Street PressCalifornia’s AI bill was an avoidable disasterWhat went wrong and how to prevent this from happening again.2024-06-0615 minAir Street PressAir Street PressWho remembers capsule networks?We recently stumbled across the first ever Hacker News thread discussing Attention Is All You Need, the landmark paper that describes the transformer architecture. The work had come out in the summer of 2017, but it took a while for the wider AI community to begin to grasp its significance and build on it.  Most commenters at the time expressed interest or admiration. Some didn’t understand it. Others thought that the paper would probably be out of date in a few months. And one person asked what it could do for capsule networks. But whatever happ...2024-06-0410 minAir Street PressAir Street PressYour guide to AI: June 2024Guide to AI is an editorialized newsletter covering the key developments in AI policy, research, industry, and startups over the last month. Produced by Air Street Capital. 2024-06-0230 minAir Street PressAir Street PressChips all the way downIf foundation model economics is alchemy, what does that mean for hardware? Read more at press.airstreet.com2024-05-3015 minAir Street PressAir Street PressDynamism and defense: six months onRevisiting our work on European readiness. It’s been close to six months since we published our report covering the challenges early-stage defense companies face in Europe. Since then, we’ve seen a rush of defense-related announcements from European governments, speculation about the future of US support for the Ukrainian war effort, and the Russian military continuing to step up its offensive. Given the pace of developments, we’re re-examining our initial work and assessing what’s changed, what hasn’t, some points we didn’t evaluate last time, and where we go from here.2024-05-2811 minAir Street PressAir Street PressGorillas, hype cycles, and my MIT EmTech talkYesterday, I was the opening act at the MIT Tech Review EmTech Digital conference, where I spoke about how easy it is to miss step changes in AI progress among the day-to-day swirl. This prompted a series of reflections, which I’ve laid out in this blog. 2024-05-2406 minAir Street PressAir Street PressGuide to AI - May 2024Guide to AI is an editorialized newsletter covering the key developments in AI policy, research, industry, and startups over the last month. Produced by Air Street Capital. 2024-05-0530 minAir Street PressAir Street PressIntroducing OpenCRISPRProfluent releases the world’s first open source AI-generated gene editor. You can read more in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/22/technology/generative-ai-gene-editing-crispr.html2024-04-2403 minAir Street PressAir Street PressData acquisition strategies for AI-first start-upsWe dive into data acquisitions strategies for AI-first start-ups, including scraping, synthetic data, annotation, labelling, simulation, data marketplaces, data sharing, gamification and more, with a focus on generative ai and deep learning. 2024-04-2225 minAir Street PressAir Street PressData is not the new oil - the peril of easy analogiesIn this piece we dive into why the analogy of "data is the new oil" is misleading.  While it’s easy to brush this off, language matters, and the forms of short-hand we use have an outsized impact on how we perceive the world.  This is only heightened when we approach the new and the unfamiliar. The number of AI-related analogies has exploded considerably in the past few years. At the same time, advances in capabilities have created a new generation of AI-first companies that are fighting to position themselves in emerging markets.  Both...2024-04-1709 minAir Street PressAir Street PressGuide to AI - April 2024Welcome to the latest issue of your guide to AI, an editorialized newsletter covering the key developments in AI policy, research, industry, and startups over the last month. By Air Street Capital2024-04-0726 minThe Gradient: Perspectives on AIThe Gradient: Perspectives on AI2023 in AI, with Nathan BenaichIn episode 104 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Nathan Benaich.Nathan is Founder and General Partner at Air Street Capital, a VC firm focused on investing in AI-first technology and life sciences companies. Nathan runs a number of communities focused on AI including the Research and Applied AI Summit and leads Spinout.fyi to improve the creation of university spinouts. Nathan co-authors the State of AI Report.Have suggestions for future podcast guests (or other feedback)? Let us know here or reach us at editor@thegradient.pubSubscribe to The Gradient...2023-12-281h 35Air Street PressAir Street PressState of AI Report 2023 - SF Launch Talk - Nathan BenaichThe State of AI Report (stateofai.com) analyses the most interesting developments in AI. We aim to trigger an informed conversation about the state of AI and its implication for the future. The Report is produced by AI investors Nathan Benaich and the Air Street Capital team. This talk was recorded in San Francisco on October 12, 2023 during the launch event for the 2023 report.2023-11-1316 minVenture Europe: Entrepreneurship | Technology | Venture Capital | Eu/AccVenture Europe: Entrepreneurship | Technology | Venture Capital | Eu/AccNathan Benaich - The State of AI, Transformer models across data sets, What does an AI startup look like, Obama's cloned voice, AI as the magic editing wand, The AI brain drainNathan Benaich is a General Partner at Air Street capital a investment firm investing in AI startups. When asking around in the European ecosystem his name came across several times as a thought leader in the AI space. I highly recommend you read the State of AI report which he co-authors. It’s an in depth report of about 100 pages long across Research, Industry, Politics and Safety. Prior to founding Air Street Capital he was a scientist in residence at the investment firm PointNine for about 6 years. During this episode we discuss his motivation and in...2023-05-2334 minInfinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek JoshiInfinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek JoshiInvesting in Generative AI, The role of compute, The State of AI report, Biology | Nathan Benaich, founder of Air Street CapitalNathan Benaich is the founder of Air Street Capital, a venture capital firm investing in AI-first technology and life science companies. He is the coauthor of State of AI report, an annual report that analyses the most interesting developments in AI. He has degrees from University of Oxford and University of Cambridge. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - How he got into VC - How he evaluates AI startups - His decision making framework for investments - His views on generative AI - Legal and...2022-12-1944 minThe Gradient: Perspectives on AIThe Gradient: Perspectives on AINathan Benaich: The State of AI Report* Have suggestions for future podcast guests (or other feedback)? Let us know here!* Want to write with us? Send a pitch using this form :)In episode 48 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Nathan Benaich.Nathan is Founder and General Partner at Air Street Capital, a venture capital (VC) firm focused on investing in AI-first technology and life sciences companies. Nathan runs a number of communities focused on AI including the Research and Applied AI Summit and leads Spinout.fyi to improve the creation of university spinouts. Together with investor Ian Hogarth...2022-11-101h 18Dead CatDead CatRoko's Basilisk (w/Nathan Benaich)Nathan Benaich, the lone general partner at Air Street Capital, has long been on my radar as an artificial intelligence obsessive. And so now that the artificial intelligence is suddenly the fixation of the venture capital world, I invited Benaich on the Dead Cat podcast to talk about generative artificial intelligence. With my co-hosts, Tom Dotan and Katie Benner, we talked about the promise of generative AI and the ethics of a machines borrowing from the vast depths of human creativity. I pay homage to the AI overlords, cheering for the triumph of...2022-10-251h 14The Newcomer PodcastThe Newcomer PodcastRoko's Basilisk (w/Nathan Benaich)Nathan Benaich, the lone general partner at Air Street Capital, has long been on my radar as an artificial intelligence obsessive. And so now that the artificial intelligence is suddenly the fixation of the venture capital world, I invited Benaich on the Dead Cat podcast to talk about generative artificial intelligence. With my co-hosts, Tom Dotan and Katie Benner, we talked about the promise of generative AI and the ethics of a machines borrowing from the vast depths of human creativity. I pay homage to the AI overlords, cheering for the triumph of...2022-10-251h 14Orchestrate all the ThingsOrchestrate all the ThingsThe state of AI in 2022 - Evolution, Distribution, Safety. Featuring Nathan Benaich, Air Street Capital General Partner, and lan Hogarth, Plural co-founderShining light on AI research and applications in a conversation with the curators of the most comprehensive report on all things AI. If you think AI is moving at a breakneck speed and it's almost impossible to keep up, you are not alone. Even if being on top of all things AI is part of your job, it's getting increasingly hard to do that. Nathan Benaich and Ian Hogarth know this all too well, yet somehow they manage. Benaich and Hogarth have solid backgrounds in AI as well as tons of experience and involvement in...2022-10-1230 minAzeem Azhar\'s Exponential ViewAzeem Azhar's Exponential ViewThe AI Revolution is Just Beginning (with Nathan Benaich and Ian Hogarth)Artificial intelligence had a breakout year, with major new developments in disparate fields, from medical biology to defense. AI investors Nathan Benaich and Ian Hogarth, who co-author the annual “State of AI” report, join Azeem Azhar to explore why AI is thriving in those sectors. In addition, they offer their take on the flood of new investments in AI and how we can best keep this technology safe for humanity. They also discuss: Why AI is fundamentally changing how we research medical science. How an AI system developed to learn the English language can be adapted to u...2021-11-1746 minOrchestrate all the ThingsOrchestrate all the ThingsThe State of AI Report, 2021. Featuring AI Investors Nathan Benaich and Ian HogarthIt's this time of year again: reports on the state of AI for 2021 are out.  In what is becoming a valued yearly tradition, we caught up with AI investors and authors of the State of AI report, Nathan Benaich and Ian Hogarth, to discuss the 2021 release. Some of the topics we covered are lessons learned from operationalizing AI and MLOps, new concepts and datasets, language models, AI ethics, and AI-powered biotech and pharma. Article published on ZDNet2021-10-1442 minAir Street PressAir Street PressMay 2021 - Your guide to AIAn analysis of key AI developments in life science, geopolitics, big tech, hardware, research, and startups over the last four weeks. Follow us on:  https://twitter.com/nathanbenaich https://twitter.com/airstreet https://newsletter.airstreet.com/2021-06-2012 minAir Street PressAir Street PressApril 2021 - Your guide to AIAn analysis of key AI developments in life science, geopolitics, big tech, hardware, research, and startups over the last four weeks. Follow us on:  https://twitter.com/nathanbenaich https://twitter.com/airstreet https://newsletter.airstreet.com/2021-05-1623 minAir Street PressAir Street PressMarch 2021 - Your guide to AIA review of key AI developments in life science, geopolitics, big tech, hardware, research, and startups over the last four weeks. Follow us on:  https://twitter.com/nathanbenaich https://twitter.com/airstreet https://newsletter.airstreet.com/2021-04-1931 minAir Street PressAir Street PressConversation with Cade Metz (Genius Makers, NYT)In a conversation with Cade Metz about his new book, Genius Makers, we dive into the history of AI, how academia drove the industry to adopt deep learning, geopolitics and China, Europe’s role on the world stage, AI in science, and more. Featuring Nathan Benaich (Air Street Capital) and Alex Flamant (Singular).   Follow us: https://twitter.com/nathanbenaich https://twitter.com/airstreet https://newsletter.airstreet.com/2021-03-2133 minAir Street PressAir Street PressFebruary 2021 - Your guide to AIA review of key AI developments in life science, geopolitics, big tech, hardware, research, and startups over the last four weeks. Follow us: https://twitter.com/nathanbenaich https://twitter.com/airstreet https://newsletter.airstreet.com/2021-03-1427 minMLOps.communityMLOps.communityThe Current MLOps Landscape // Nathan Benaich & Timothy Chen // MLOps Meetup #43MLOps community meetup #43! Last Wednesday, we talked to Nathan Benaich, General Partner at Air Street Capital and Timothy Chen, Managing Partner at Essence VC about The MLOps Landscape. // Abstract: In this session, we explored the MLOps landscape through the eyes of two accomplished investors. Tim And Nathan shared with us their experience in looking at hundreds of ML and MLOps companies each year to highlight major insights they have gained. What do the ML infrastructure and tooling landscape look like at the moment? Where have they been seeing patterns emerge? What do they expect to see...2020-11-2358 minOrchestrate all the ThingsOrchestrate all the ThingsThe state of AI in 2020: democratization, industrialization, and the way to artificial general intelligence. Featuring AI investors Nathan Benaich and Ian HogarthFrom fit for purpose development to pie in the sky research, this is what AI looks like in 2020. A discussion on all things AI, with authors of the State of AI 2020 Report, Nathan Benaich and Ian Hogarth. Benaich and Hogarth work on the intersection of industry, research, investment and policy, with extensive background and various currently held positions such as venture capital investor and researcher. This gives them a unique vantage point on all things AI. Their report, which is published for the 3rd year in a row, is their way of sharing...2020-10-0145 minStemCells@Lunch DigestedStemCells@Lunch DigestedEpisode 20 - Dr Nathan BenaichDr Nathan Benaich is an investor, a technologist and a former scientist. He has done his PhD at the CSCRM and now works with companies that solve challenging and valuable problems using breakthrough technologies including, but not limited to, artificial intelligence.2017-07-2507 minMEX Design TalkMEX Design TalkArtificial intelligence; Nathan Benaich, Partner, Playfair CapitalNathan Benaich, a partner at VC firm Playfair Capital, joins hosts Marek Pawlowski and Alex Guest to talk about the confluence of artificial intelligence, machine learning and user experience. Playfair specialises in investing in this area and is actively building London’s growing community of AI start-ups and experts. Marek, Alex and Nathan share examples of digital experiences shaped by artificial intelligence and discuss the relationship with user-centred design. You can find show notes linking to everything mentioned in the podcast section at http://mobileuserexperience.com.2016-04-211h 07The Full Ratchet: VC | Venture Capital | Angel Investors | Startup Investing | Fundraising | Crowdfunding | Pitch | Private Equity | Business LoansThe Full Ratchet: VC | Venture Capital | Angel Investors | Startup Investing | Fundraising | Crowdfunding | Pitch | Private Equity | Business Loans78. Artificial Intelligence Investing, Part 2 (Nathan Benaich)Today we cover Part 2 of Artificial Intelligence Investing with Nathan Benaich of Playfair Capital. In this segment we address: Can you provide an overview of the funding landscape for AI in recent years and the major things that have changed? What are the primary sectors wherein AI-based startups are...   To listen more, please visit http://fullratchet.net/podcast-episodes/ for all of our other episodes. Also, follow us on twitter @TheFullRatchet for updates and more information.2016-04-1439 minThe Full Ratchet: VC | Venture Capital | Angel Investors | Startup Investing | Fundraising | Crowdfunding | Pitch | Private Equity | Business LoansThe Full Ratchet: VC | Venture Capital | Angel Investors | Startup Investing | Fundraising | Crowdfunding | Pitch | Private Equity | Business Loans78. Artificial Intelligence Investing, Part 2 (Nathan Benaich)Today we cover Part 2 of Artificial Intelligence Investing with Nathan Benaich of Playfair Capital. In this segment we address: Can you provide an overview of the funding landscape for AI in recent years and the major things that have changed? What are the primary sectors wherein AI-based startups are...   To listen more, please visit http://fullratchet.net/podcast-episodes/ for all of our other episodes. Also, follow us on twitter @TheFullRatchet for updates and more information.2016-04-1439 minThe Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing DemystifiedThe Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified78. Artificial Intelligence Investing, Part 2 (Nathan Benaich)Today we cover Part 2 of Artificial Intelligence Investing with Nathan Benaich of Playfair Capital. In this segment we address: Can you provide an overview of the funding landscape for AI in recent years and the major things that have changed? What are the primary sectors wherein AI-based startups are...   To listen more, please visit http://fullratchet.net/podcast-episodes/ for all of our other episodes. Also, follow us on twitter @TheFullRatchet for updates and more information.2016-04-1437 minThe Full Ratchet: VC | Venture Capital | Angel Investors | Startup Investing | Fundraising | Crowdfunding | Pitch | Private Equity | Business LoansThe Full Ratchet: VC | Venture Capital | Angel Investors | Startup Investing | Fundraising | Crowdfunding | Pitch | Private Equity | Business Loans77. Artificial Intelligence Investing, Part 1 (Nathan Benaich)Nathan Benaich of Playfair Capital joins Nick to cover Artificial Intelligence Investing, Part 1. We will address questions including: Can we start off w/ a simple definition of artificial intelligence? The term ‘Machine Learning’ is often used when discussing AI. In your estimation, is Machine Learning and AI synonymous or...   To listen more, please visit http://fullratchet.net/podcast-episodes/ for all of our other episodes. Also, follow us on twitter @TheFullRatchet for updates and more information.2016-04-1143 minThe Full Ratchet: VC | Venture Capital | Angel Investors | Startup Investing | Fundraising | Crowdfunding | Pitch | Private Equity | Business LoansThe Full Ratchet: VC | Venture Capital | Angel Investors | Startup Investing | Fundraising | Crowdfunding | Pitch | Private Equity | Business Loans77. Artificial Intelligence Investing, Part 1 (Nathan Benaich)Nathan Benaich of Playfair Capital joins Nick to cover Artificial Intelligence Investing, Part 1. We will address questions including: Can we start off w/ a simple definition of artificial intelligence? The term ‘Machine Learning’ is often used when discussing AI. In your estimation, is Machine Learning and AI synonymous or...   To listen more, please visit http://fullratchet.net/podcast-episodes/ for all of our other episodes. Also, follow us on twitter @TheFullRatchet for updates and more information.2016-04-1143 minThe Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing DemystifiedThe Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified77. Artificial Intelligence Investing, Part 1 (Nathan Benaich)Nathan Benaich of Playfair Capital joins Nick to cover Artificial Intelligence Investing, Part 1. We will address questions including: Can we start off w/ a simple definition of artificial intelligence? The term ‘Machine Learning’ is often used when discussing AI. In your estimation, is Machine Learning and AI synonymous or...   To listen more, please visit http://fullratchet.net/podcast-episodes/ for all of our other episodes. Also, follow us on twitter @TheFullRatchet for updates and more information.2016-04-1141 min