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- my role: moved away from managing external technical partnerships (incl. OpenAI) and into a technical advisor role
- implications on teams across Microsoft
- cross-company efforts including agents architecture
- revitalizing MSR’s work and connecting dots to product teams
- DeepMind, Cusp, Microsoft Research, Northzone
- what questions should I be asking about the ecosystem?
- what’s changed in the last 3 months?
- personal decision
- there are some good ambitious projects
- wayve
- odyssey
- defence: more and more activity. delion / uk office
- not many serious players. need serious people - torsten has done a great job.
- new crop of companies coming up that need to be staffed.
- fluid stack are launching stuff
- lambda, crusoe, coreweave / derivative stuff
- growth zones if if happens?
- biotech - trad companies, not many at scale new ones (recursion has an office w/ valence)
- UK doesn’t have independent large model company!
- in reality a lot of GDM people aren’t entreprenerial?
- profluent