James Wise

Prior Lab's foundation model, TabPFN, was Nature’s most cited paper last year, ahead of Deepseek. This is because it excels where LLMs struggle, flawlessly working with huge amounts of structured ...

The steam locomotive. The electric motor. The electric telegraph. The fax machine. The steam turbine. Pneumatic tyres. The discovery of the electron. Aspirin synthesis. Stainless steel. The tank. P...

Great interview with Joséphine Kant on what we’re doing at Sovereign AI. Our offer to founders is simple: we offer you the speed of venture and the strength of a nation. Plus you get to work with ...

Huge congratulations to the team at Wayve on some big technical & commercial milestones. This is one of the boldest approaches of any autonomous software lab - working with the world's best automak...

Delighted to have Professor Yann LeCun join the advisory board at Prior Labs ahead of some big technical and commercial breakthroughs they'll be announcing in the coming weeks. Their latest tabula...

There are just two companies, Abbot & Dexcom, that dominate the $12B CGM market, until today. Huge congratulations to the Sava team on a world-first clinical breakthrough for their microsensor tec...

Since my appointment a little under 3 months ago, the Sovereign AI Unit has been working hard to establish its structure, team and a unique offer to founders, while continuing the day-to-day work o...

Delighted to share that Kaia Health will be joining Sword Health, the fastest growing AI-led care platform in the world, in a deal worth up to $285M. There's a huge amount said about how AI can ma...

Delighted to welcome Josephine to the SovAI team - where we’re combining best in class experience from top venture and tech firms with the power of the British State. If you want to work with Jose...

The Sovereign AI Fund is hiring! Ahead of our launch in April, we are building an investment team with strong commercial experience, and we're looking for a lead Partner to drive the fund's succes...

One prediction for 2026 - the work of data scientists is going to be upended (again) by AI, and Prior Labs is going to play a big part in that. Really enjoyed this discussion with Professor Frank ...

Incredibly proud of my friend Hiroki Takeuchi as he announces GoCardless's acquisition by Mollie today, creating a combined European payments giant in a multi-billion dollar cash & shares transacti...

If you’re an AI researcher in the UK - good news - Christmas has come early! Apply for access to millions of hours of free compute from DSIT. This is the beginning of what will be the most compel...

I can’t promise every one of the companies below will be a world-changing success ( despite our hopes for them ) - but I can promise that these companies are led by exceptional founders who are bui...

Thank you to everyone who joined our founders & VC charity casino night - it was great fun. And huge congratulations to Sten Saar for winning the most chips and Katie Marrache for wining the poker ...

One of the fastest growing technology companies in the UK isn't in AI or defence - it's Fuse Energy, a vertically integrated energy company transforming our energy system from electron to app. For...

There are world-leading AI companies being founded in Britain, but we can do so much more. Today I'm delighted to be announced as Chair of the UK Government's Sovereign AI Unit, backed by almost £...

The team at Convergence was one of the most talented technical teams I've ever worked with. But as Marvin Purtorab explains below, if you wanted to work with them on frontier AI models, he didn't...

How it started vs How it's going. Huge congratulations to Hiroki Takeuchi, Matt Robinson, Tom Blomfield and the entire GoCardless team on another milestone as they transact over £1B in a single da...

One model. Infinite Predictions. That was the promise when Prior Labs launched this year, and what Frank Hutter and the team he's assembled have achieved in that time is amazing. Their tabular f...