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Investments
Work Experience
2024
Digital Fellow
2024
At the Digital Economy Lab of Stanford University
2015
Founder
2015
Platform to drive macro-level understanding of emerging technologies and their impact on the society.
2023
Co-Chair, Global Futures Council on Complex Risks
2023
2023
Executive Fellow
2023
1999
Investor
1999
Investor in deep tech, climate change, AI, and other exponential themes. I've invested in more than 50 tech startups since 1999.
2023 - 2024
Visiting Fellow
2023 - 2024
2009 - 2014
Founder & CEO
2009 - 2014
PeerIndex helps companies identify what and who is influencing their customers now. We did amazing things with machine learning and large amounts of data. Raised several rounds of venture capital. Winner of Europas Grand Prix, 2012. Acquired by Brandwatch in December 2014
Latest Articles
Substack•Sep. 2024
🔮 Moore’s law^2; the Trojan horse; Amazon puzzle; North Korean elites, new blood group, bacteria furniture ++ #492
Substack•Sep. 2024
🔮 Strawberry; AI hyperpolation; digital twins; obsolete SaaS; dogs on LSD, nanotech & light hazard ++ #491
Substack•Sep. 2024
🍓 Playing with Strawberry: When machines can reason
OpenAI's new model o1
Strawberry model
reasoning abilities
large language models
chain-of-thought reasoning
Substack•Sep. 2024
🔮 AI exoskeleton; new nuclear age; massive compute; home-first robot, Diverse Intelligence & Bluesky rises ++ #490
Substack•Sep. 2024
🤔 Why humanity needs AI
knowledge creation
scientific progress
decline in research productivity
interdisciplinary science
tools and technology in science
Substack•Sep. 2024
🔮 SpaceX vs Boeing; Telegram; AI Doom; battery crash; lab-grown chicken, social biome & papercuts ++ #489
Technology and the future
Telegram and global regulations
SpaceX and aerospace innovation
Boeing's challenges
Vertical integration in industry
Substack•Aug. 2024
🔮 AI scaling constraints; importing sunshine; cognitive capital & AI; startup trap, geo engineering & Roblox ++ #488
Substack•Aug. 2024
🤔 On AI, Zuck is bang on
Mark Zuckerberg's decisions
Facebook's data practices
misinformation handling
walled garden social networks
Meta's AI investment
Substack•Aug. 2024
🔮 Too much exponential?; AI scientists; digital simulacra; moving stones and forging people ++ #487
Substack•Aug. 2024
🔮 The root of riots; AI‘s climate costs; AGI; the last ICE & bronze age tech ++ #486
Substack•Aug. 2024
🔮 Hype is overhyped; GLP-1 surprises; Trump's climate costs; Texas solar, AI necklace & Venezuela ++ #485
Substack•Aug. 2024
🧐 Four insights from my trip to Peru
Spanish conquest of the Incas
Incan Empire
cultural exchange
ecological complexity
knowledge and technology
Substack•Jul. 2024
🔮 Open-source AI surge; UBI surprises; AI eats itself; Murdoch’s empire drama & the internet’s Balkanisation ++ #484
Substack•Jul. 2024
🔮 Tech’s right shift; predicting complexity; conservatism failure; longevity, synthetic blood & robots ++ #483
Substack•Jul. 2024
💸 Turning UBI on its head
Universal Basic Income (UBI)
technological advancements
artificial intelligence
automation
wealth distribution
Substack•Jul. 2024
🔮 Volt revolution; AI’s Magna Carta; digital Trojan horses; physi-maze madness ++ #482
Substack•Jul. 2024
🔮 AI's Expensive Foreplay; Superintelligent Bureaucracy; Copernican Tantrum; Supershoe Records & BYD's Sexy Mishap ++ #481
Substack•Jun. 2024
🔮 Genome architects; Chinese cables; sun & the data centre; rising rivals; hair juche & Schrodinger’s AI cat ++ #480
Substack•Jun. 2024
🔮Ilya’s resurrection; new news; copyright & AI; heat pumps, telepathic tech leaders, Xi's cities & API bills ++ #479
Substack•Jun. 2024
🤔 Claude 3 is the Macintosh of AI
Claude 3 vs ChatGPT
user interface comparison
Apple vs Microsoft
graphical user interface (GUI)
AI character training
Substack•Jun. 2024
🔮 Apple’s Intelligence; AI, patterns or understanding?; Tariff Tension; Plant minds & chess moves ++ #478
Substack•Jun. 2024
🔮 Exponential asymmetry in war; AI & complexity; Chinese Fordism; origami, Nvidia & Ozempic ++ #477
Substack•Jun. 2024
🔮 AI & creativity; exponential compute; peak GHGs, recycling concrete & marriage saves lives ++ #476
AI and divergent thinking
scientific process and AI
macroeconomic impact of AI
GHG emissions
Daron Acemoglu's research