James Wise

@Jameswise

Partner @Balderton. Investing in AI, health and energy. Chair of UK Sovereign AI. Author of Start-Up Century. Mostly Generative.

United Kingdom

balderton.com

Joined March 2010

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James Wise
@Jameswise
10h
Impressive release! It’s still amazes me what a brilliant team of researchers & some GPU can ship.
Inherent
@inherent_labs
11h
1/ Today, we introduce Faraday, a 27B-parameter AI Scientist that extends the capabilities of coding agents with a layer of scientific intuition. Trained via long-horizon RL, Faraday outperforms Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 on the task of replicating research papers. 🧵
James Wise
@Jameswise
Aug 12
My latest Chair's report on our work @UKSovereignAI, including an update on our portfolio, our work on rapid procurement from UK AI companies, and reflections on how our mission has become even more salient:
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Sovereign AI Quarterly Update #3
This is my third quarterly update as Chair of UK Government Sovereign AI. As before, this represents my own views on our work. SovAI was set up with a simple thesis: adopting and developing frontier...
James Wise
@Jameswise
Aug 3
Olix is one of those companies which, if it works, will completely reshuffle the infrastructure needed for AI inference globally. Much deserved funding for @jamesdacombe and great to see the @UKSovereignAI fund continuing to take bold, orthogonal bets on British companies.
Sovereign AI
@UKSovereignAI
Aug 3
Sovereign AI invests in @OLIXComputing OLIX is building the next generation of AI infrastructure, developing a fundamentally new approach to the systems that power AI models. Most of the conversation around AI focuses on the models themselves. But as those models become more
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James Wise
@Jameswise
Aug 2
Modern data centres require less water than leisure centres or restaurants - so it’s sad to see politicians spread conspiracy theories about them like this. I shared some of this data in an Economist article this week. However an even bigger issue is the sheer hypocrisy in the
Caroline Lucas
@CarolineLucas
Jul 31
Govt planning c. 100 new data centres by early 2030s, mostly in water stressed areas - with no legal duty to disclose how much water they use. Meanwhile Govt launches £75m publicity campaign to urge us to reduce water use & privatised water companies waste 19% thro leaks. Madness
James Wise
@Jameswise
Jul 29
I have alot of sympathy for UKRI who have to make hard funding decisions - but whether it's from them, local funds, or philanthropic and commercial efforts Jodrell Bank and The Lovell Telescope simply must be kept both operational and supported as a home for science. The