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" I think AI if anything - believe it or not - I think it's underhyped. I think it's going to be even bigger than most people realise." - Professor Erik Brynjolfsson - Stanford economist, Director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab

Quote: Professor Erik Brynjolfsson – Stanford economist, Director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab

“Relying solely on closed models is not inherently safe: they can be breached, misused, or fail in ways that outsiders cannot detect. And concentrating advanced AI capabilities behind a small number of closed models compounds that risk.” - Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Palantir, OpenAI and more than 20 other companies - Letter to policymakers, 24th July 2026

Quote: Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Palantir, OpenAI and more than 20 other companies – Letter to policymakers, 24th July 2026

"Everybody is a coder now." - Professor Erik Brynjolfsson - Stanford economist, Director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab

Quote: Professor Erik Brynjolfsson – Stanford economist, Director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab

"Now comes the most important part. You need to set up your own continuous training flywheel, so that you can improve your AI systems based on their interaction with your employees and your users. This is how you turn the edges of your business into AI systems your vendors and competitors cannot replicate." - Arthur Mensch - CEO, Mistral

Quote: Arthur Mensch – CEO, Mistral

"The magnitude of this technology’s impact will be unprecedented, perhaps 10x of the Industrial Revolution at 10x the speed. It will help us solve some of the biggest problems society faces from accelerating drug discovery to developing new clean energy sources to creating novel advanced materials." - Demis Hassabis - Google Deepmind CEO

Quote: Demis Hassabis – Google Deepmind CEO

"AGI cannot be compared to standard technological breakthroughs, not even ones as consequential as the internet or mobile - it is much more akin to the discovery of electricity or fire. If you stop to think about it, we’ve essentially found a way to make sand think. It’s miraculous." - Demis Hassabis - Google Deepmind CEO

Quote: Demis Hassabis – Google Deepmind CEO

"This is a pivotal moment in human history. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), a system that exhibits all the cognitive capabilities the brain has, is probably only a few short years away." - Demis Hassabis - Google Deepmind CEO

Quote: Demis Hassabis – Google Deepmind CEO

"We don't know the extent to which the economy will benefit from the AI buildout. Yet it seems inevitable that what is now called "AI investment" will soon be called just 'investment.' Even so, new opportunities for the economy introduce new challenges for policymakers. We at the Fed are monitoring the implications for inflation and the labour market." - Kevin Warsh - Chairman Kevin Warsh, US Federal Reserve

Quote: Kevin Warsh – Chairman Kevin Warsh, US Federal Reserve

"The most striking feature of the economy right now is business investment. The rapid pace - which appears to be accelerating - reflects, in large part, the construction of data centres and the immense demand for the AI-related equipment and software that fill them. Investment in equipment overall increased about 8 percent for the year ending in the first quarter." - Kevin Warsh - Chairman Kevin Warsh, US Federal Reserve

Quote: Kevin Warsh – Chairman Kevin Warsh, US Federal Reserve

"When intelligence is plentiful, volition is valuable. The people who are going to make a difference are not the ones who seek relaxation and passively use AI to work less. They are the ones who will seek improvement and actively wrestle with AI to develop their own mental capabilities and accomplish more." - David Brooks - The Atlantic

Quote: David Brooks – The Atlantic

"All of these efforts might seem daunting – they are. This is both a complete replatforming of your IT, and a complete change in the way you’re developing software, and operating your business. AI lifecycle management requires understanding human behaviour and gradient descent, that’s a stretch." - Arthur Mensch - CEO, Mistral

Quote: Arthur Mensch – CEO, Mistral

"DFlash is a speculative decoding technique that accelerates Large Language Model (LLM) inference by generating blocks of tokens in parallel rather than sequentially. It replaces the traditional autoregressive draft models used in standard speculative decoding with a lightweight block-diffusion model." - DFlash speculative decoding - Artificial intelligence

Term: DFlash speculative decoding – Artificial intelligence

“We’re almost moving to a landscape where we’re working for the AI rather than the AI working for us.” - James Brocklebank - Co-chair of Advent International

Quote: James Brocklebank – Co-chair of Advent International

"A platform shift represents a fundamental transition in the world's underlying technology foundation, such as the evolution from desktop to mobile or cloud to artificial intelligence, which completely rewrites the rules of the global economy. This transformation alters human interaction with data and services, dismantling legacy competitive moats and redistributing market value to new industry leaders." - Platform shift - Strategy

Term: Platform shift – Strategy

"[Using AI is] also a cultural question, because you need to break down silos in old ways of doing things and get the people on board with doing things in a different way.” - James Brocklebank - Co-chair of Advent International

Quote: James Brocklebank – Co-chair of Advent International

"Move 37 refers to a landmark 2016 play by Google DeepMind's AlphaGo. It is shorthand for a moment when AI surprises humans by making an unconventional, seemingly irrational move that proves to be a secretly brilliant, highly creative strategy." - Move 37 - AlphaGo - Artificial Intelligence

Term: Move 37 – AlphaGo – Artificial Intelligence

"DeepSeek DSpark is an advanced inference optimisation framework developed by DeepSeek that dramatically speeds up large language model (LLM) text generation without changing the model's weights or output quality." - DSpark - Artificial intelligence

Term: DSpark – Artificial intelligence

“Your company’s only going to go as far as your CEO goes in AI.” - Dan Shipper - Every CEO

Quote: Dan Shipper – Every CEO

"What I am claiming - obviously slightly true but slightly self-centered - is that it is the model plus an application layer plus compute." - Alex Karp - Palantir CEO

Quote: Alex Karp – Palantir CEO

'Speculative decoding is an AI inference optimization technique that accelerates Large Language Models (LLMs) by predicting and verifying multiple tokens at once. It solves the autoregressive bottleneck - where models typically generate text one slow token at a time - yielding up to 2× to 3× faster speeds without altering output quality." - Speculative decoding - Artificial intelligence

Term: Speculative decoding – Artificial intelligence

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