James Wise

The team at Convergence launched Deepwork, a leading web agent model. It's faster, smarter, and can perform multiple tasks in parallel. Since January, over 100,000 people have used Proxy, running nearly a million agents. Discover more at www.convergence.ai.

Prior Labs launched a top model for tabular data: fights fraud, boosts cancer research, and powers AI in Google Sheets. Explore at www.priorlabs.ai. #AI #Innovation

America Is Missing The New Labor Economy – Robotics Part 1 SemiAnalysis is hosting an Nvidia Blackwell GPU Hackathon on Sunday March 16th. It is the ultimate playground for Blackwell PTX tech enthusiasts, offering hands-on exploration of Blackwell & PT…

Great piece from SemiAnalysis on the supply-chain revolution required to make robotics work in the EU, UK & US any why in this case, near-shoring matters.

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The AI tool that can interpret any spreadsheet instantly A generalized model for tabular machine learning.

🧪 A groundbreaking AI tool, TabPFN, can analyze any spreadsheet without specific training.

Pre-trained on synthetic data, it delivers fast, accurate insights and outperforms traditional models in handling up to 10,000 rows and 500 columns.
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Spreadsheets are about to have their ChatGPT moment.

Prior Labs have just released their model, TabPFN, which outperforms every other ML method for tabular data. With a single API call you can bring state of the art prediction to your datasets.

Try it out at www.priorlabs.ai

Enjoyed sharing some thoughts and data with @techcrunch on what has been an incredible year for AI in Europe:

The city is Red!

Great to see people who were willing to take a risk and back a small British tech company get rewarded for it.

A few more outcomes like this and we may have to actually be optimistic about UK tech!

Can Europe build its first trillion-dollar start-up? The continent has yet to create a tech company to rival Alphabet, Amazon or Apple. Ian Hogarth explains why this matters — and how to set it right

Great piece from Ian Hogarth on the route to European tech relevance ( from current low/no relevance ).

Although not mentioning fintech seems to be an oversight…

‘Can Europe build its first trillion-dollar start-up?’ on.ft.com/3D3quN6

Do we have an #eu/acc here yet?!

The Exploration Company raises $160M to build Europe’s answer to SpaceX Dragon  | TechCrunch Only two companies currently provide cargo delivery to and from the International Space Station, and both are based in the United States. The Exploration

The UK & Europe is home to world leading logistics companies, space logistics should be no different.

Great to be working with Helene Huby, CEO of The Exploration Company to help get more stuff up & down from orbit in one of Europe’s biggest ever spacetech rounds.

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You can access the whole thing here: guides.balderton.com/founders-gui...

To help navigate an increasingly complex regulatory landscape, we’ve launched our AI guide today with a mini-site dedicated to providing advice to AI founders.

Dive into our Guide for: 
✅ Key tips on staying on top of regulations
🌍 A rundown of the UK, EU & US
🤝 An overview of players in policy

Sign Up Personal AI assistants that learn, adapt, and remember, handling tasks so you focus on what matters.

We’re backing @convergence_ai_ .

The team have built a web agent that you can teach to do tasks exactly as you would. The ability to learn is the missing link between dumb software & generalised, productive agents.

Try out the product here:

convergence.ai/sign-up?referr…

This is great and picks up on a policy I speak about in Start-Up Century.

We’re already seeing a rapid increase in new business creation, and interest in becoming an entrepreneur, globally.

Bringing down the financial barrier to get started is step 1. Step 2 is streamlining regulation to scale.

Balderton's $1.3B fundraise and conviction investing I have a bug bear with most fundraising announcements. While it would be great to see more media coverage of technological breakthroughs and entrepreneurial journeys (see our own efforts at What's Nex...

ICYMI: We @balderton have raised $1.3B in new venture & growth funds to continue investing in the UK & Europe’s leading tech companies.

I shared some thoughts on our approach, why venture matters and the experience raising my 8th fund here:

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What's Next - YouTube Welcome to What's Next with Balderton Capital, where we take a closer look at emerging technologies, the people behind them and the potential impact on our l...

In case you missed it…

Over the last few months we recorded 10 interviews with the founders of deep tech companies focussed on everything from nuclear power to AI scientists.

If you’re interested in learning more about ‘what’s next’- check them out here:

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Featuring a shout out for the excellent work @rbremer.bsky.social does at Balderton.

‎Jimmy's Jobs of the Future: James Wise - Start up Century: Why We're all Becoming Entrepreneurs o... ‎Show Jimmy's Jobs of the Future, Ep James Wise - Start up Century: Why We're all Becoming Entrepreneurs - 30 Oct 2023

Why we are all going to be entrepreneurs.

Loved recording the latest episodes of Jimmy's Jobs, covering my book, what makes great entrepreneurs and what we've learned investing in over 200 companies.

Check it out on your favourite pod app:

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RSVP to Anthropic Hackathon, London | Partiful We’re excited to host our next Anthropic Hackathon in London - in partnership with Cerebral Valley and Balderton Capital, and supported by MongoDB, Brave, LangChain, Haystack (by deepset) and TruEra...

We want to see more people benefit from AI.

Following the AI Safety Summit - we are hosting the UK's biggest AI hackathon next weekend, with unique support from AnthropicAI, Cerebral Valley, Haystack and others.

Come & build with us here: partiful.com/e/pQHQrWPg1A...

Excited to announce that my book, Start-Up Century is now available to order ahead of it's release on November 23rd with Bloomsbury.

It covers why more of us than ever are going to become entrepreneurs & the policies we need to make this shift to a new world of work a success.

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