In 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.
We share our best essays from 2024 on Air Street Press.
We 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.
The 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.systems
Jeremy 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.com
The 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.ai
Every 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.com
This 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.com
How 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
Welcome 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.ai
Every 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…
Welcome 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.
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
What a four day meltdown tells us about standards and scrutiny.
Reflections on the State of AI Report, by Air Street Capital.
The 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.
Shifting creative control from companies to people.
Why storytelling matters from inception to IPO and beyond.
Welcome 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.
At 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...
On “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 meantime
Openness 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.
While 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.
Today we're asking if something approaching ‘general intelligence’ did begin to become available, does it invalidate our thesis that alchemy doesn't scale?
We dive into the SOTA from Chinese AI labs, the chip wars, sanctions, and loopholes.
At 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.
The 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....
Powering breakthrough visual storytelling with AI-first visual effects for Hollywood.
Welcome 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.
There 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.
