Foundation Models
- Nous Research - Nous Research is a leader in the development of human-centric language models and simulators. Our primary focus areas include model architecture, data synthesis, fine-tuning, and reasoning, all aimed at aligning AI systems with real-world user experiences. We prioritize the development of open-source, human-compatible models, which challenge the conventional closed-model approach.
- Co-founder: Teknium (e/λ)
Hardware
- Hailo - Hailo offers breakthrough AI processors uniquely designed to enable high performance deep learning applications on edge devices. Our processors are geared towards the new era of generative AI on the edge, in parallel to enabling perception and video enhancement through our wide range of AI accelerators and vision processors.
Speech
- ElevenLabs - Pioneering research in Text to Speech, AI Voice Generator, and more
- Co-founder: Piotr Dabkowski - very strong technical background
- Co-founder: Mati Staniszewski
- Sherman Chann - strong engineer who blogs at Simple Thoughts
- Flavio Schneider - Machine Learning Researcher
- Pre-seed investor
- Carles Reina - VP Revenue (ex Sonantic) - contact of Fabio
- Sonantic - Sonantic provides worldâs most expressive and realistic artificial voices
- Crunchbase
- App
- Acquired by Spotify: Newsroom Spotify, TechCrunch article
- Synthesia
- Resemble AI
- GitHub: https://github.com/resemble-ai
- Respeecher - voice cloning (âreliable AI voice partner that delivers ethical & authentic voices for creative, education, healthcare, tech & cybersecurityâ)
Lists - London & UK
Some tech bro âones to watchâ-style lists. London-specific. Actually quite helpful as aggregations of significant companies. Can be helpful pointers for job searches.