OpenAI and Anthropic also have London offices. And a big chunk of Google DeepMind is there.
On the AI Safety side, there's also UK AISI, the Alignment team at Google DeepMind, Apollo Research and LISA.

The UK has phenomenal AI talent and a long established culture of responsible AI development.

Today I’m proud to be opening a new office: Microsoft AI London. If you’d like to join us, get in touch. We’re hiring!

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Definitely worth trying Elicit if you habitually explore or review scientific literature. I've been playing with this upgraded version and it's very intuitive.

How many large AI models are out there, who developed them, and for what applications? To answer this question, we present a new dataset tracking every AI model we could find trained with over 10^23 FLOP.

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Last day to apply to ML Alignment & Theory Scholars to help advance beneficial AI! Last cohort, scholars rated the program 9.2/10 on average (NPS: +74) and mentors advocated for scholars' research continuing at 8.1/10 on average (NPS: +25). Come see why!
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If you'd like to work with me, I'm mentoring at the MATS Program in Berkeley. Deadline is April 7.
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New Anthropic research paper: Many-shot jailbreaking.

We study a long-context jailbreaking technique that is effective on most large language models, including those developed by Anthropic and many of our peers.

Read our blog post and the paper here: anthropic.com/research/many-…

Port Grimaud. New village in France built in the 1960s in traditional styles, with most houses on the water.

I enjoyed the book 'The Language Game' by Morten Christiansen & Nick Chater. I'd be excited to see a more detailed version of the argument against nativism and universal grammar, and revised discussion of how LLMs relate to humans.
Still, they cover lots of interesting…

Authors: Jessica F. Cantlon & Steven T. Piantadosi
Link:
nature.com/articles/s4415…

New paper marshals evidence that unique human abilities (compared to animals) result only from quantitative increases in information processing ability (not specialized adaptations for language or Theory of Mind etc).
They relate improved info processing to scaling up the brain…