Faisal Islam
@faisalislam
Econ Editor, BBC News. Newsnight presenter. Host award-winning EUref TV interviews & 2017 GE debate. United ST. occasional Eurovision vocalist 😆
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NEW & Exclusive:
Jack Clark, British founder of Anthropic… answered it all - what is the precise humanity threatening problem? Isn’t this just a result of push to commercialise? Aren’t you trying to cut cheaper Chinese open models out of competition? Why not stop yourself?
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Most globally important UK Hqd company?
Probably ARM Holdings, whose chip designs, rooted in Cambridge history of Acorn/ BBC Micro are now in 350 billion devices, it calculates. It has now shifted into making its own chips for AI data centres. Peaked at $400bn plus valuation earlier in the summer after being bought by SoftBank and floating on Nasdaq:
Exclusive interview with CEO Rene Haas at its Cambridge HQ.
Future of AI? Who wins - the cloud, or the devices/ robots? Are cheap open source models really capable of doing 90% of the frontier models? CPU or GPU? If Arm’s now making its own chips, why not the UK? Can other nations still invest in its place in AI supply chains like Taiwan with TSMC etc?
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Great discussion with @elerianm on Newsnight tonight on multi decade highs on long term Govt bond yields… he really pins this on the competition in financing markets from giant AI investments
