Air Street Press
Nathan Benaich (Air Street Capital)
As an AI-native investor, we believe it’s important to be a hands-on contributor to the community. Since our earliest days, we’ve been building in public - whether that’s sharing our perspectives on the direction of the field, emerging best practice for building AI-first companies, organizing meet-ups, and campaigning for policy change.
Air Street Press brings together all of our content under one umbrella. Subscribe to listen to our analysis, portfolio news, Guide to AI monthly newsletter, annual State of AI Report, and our policy work.
Air Street Press brings together all of our content under one umbrella. Subscribe to listen to our analysis, portfolio news, Guide to AI monthly newsletter, annual State of AI Report, and our policy work.
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Oct 26, 2024 • 7min
State of AI outtakes #1: scaling in defense
The discussion opens with the hurdles in scaling defense tech in Europe, stressing the importance of investment and founder engagement. It highlights impressive innovations from U.S. startups, particularly Anduril. A closer look at Ukraine reveals its evolving procurement processes, contrasting them with slow Western methods. The conversation underscores how local innovation is crucial in wartime and examines the investment challenges that hinder defense tech growth in Ukraine.
Sep 17, 2024 • 3min
Our investment in Patina Systems
Shifting creative control from companies to people.
Sep 15, 2024 • 15min
Good technology doesn’t speak for itself
Why storytelling matters from inception to IPO and beyond.
Sep 1, 2024 • 30min
Guide to AI - September 2024
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.
Aug 22, 2024 • 11min
Rediscovering the UK's AI ambition
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 our unvarnished views publicly, not just behind closed doors. So in that spirit, we’re sharing our submission in full.
Aug 15, 2024 • 17min
Open-endedness is all we’ll need
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
Aug 8, 2024 • 14min
The cathedral and the bazaar
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.
Aug 4, 2024 • 16min
Guide to AI - August 2024
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.
Aug 3, 2024 • 13min
Alchemy doesn’t scale: the economics of general intelligence
Discussion on the economic impacts of powerful frontier models in AI, trade-offs between cost and performance, challenges in scaling AI models for general intelligence, and the importance of technical pragmatism in AI development.
Aug 1, 2024 • 18min
The State of Chinese AI
We dive into the SOTA from Chinese AI labs, the chip wars, sanctions, and loopholes.
