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Nathan Benaich

  • 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!
    • too late?
  • in reality a lot of GDM people aren’t entreprenerial?
  • profluent