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.

Read more on press.airstreet.com and www.stateof.ai

Welcome to the latest issue of your guide to AI, an editorialized newsletter covering the key developments in AI policy, research, industry, and start-ups over the last month.

Air Street’s submission to the UK Strategic Defence Review.

You can read more at press.airstreet.com and https://press.airstreet.com/p/uk-defence-and-dynamism

The dawning AI-first era is creating clear winners and losers. Here we dive into the vibe shift of both Microsoft and Google in their work on AI. 

Final 2024 statistics for AI chip usage across NVIDIA, Google, Huawei, Apple, AMD, Cerebras, Cambricon, Graphcore, Groq, SambaNova, and Intel Habana in the State of AI Report Compute Index.

Scaling AI-first software for general purpose robotics.

Revisiting my 2019 lecture on why biology was experiencing its AI moment.

Read more at press.airstreet.com and https://press.airstreet.com/p/ai-first-biology-five-years-on

The dawning AI-first era is creating clear winners and losers. We’re seeing giants of the past lose ground, while companies that few initially believed in defy their sceptics. At the same time, the terms of big macro debates in the field seemingly change overnight. In this “vibe shifts” series, we’ll be diving into some of these stories and drawing a few lessons for entrepreneurs and investors.

Here we dive into the vibe shift around existential risk.

New research from Profluent Bio validates the power of machine learning models to design bespoke biological systems at scale.

How the EU spent 16 years and €8 billion on a drone that may never fly.

You can read the essay on press.airstreet.com at https://press.airstreet.com/p/how-not-to-build-a-drone