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We invest in teams we believe in, technology we understand and markets we value. Bloc’s portfolio is made up of companies pushing the boundaries in areas such as AI, wireless connectivity and supercomputing.

We’re a group of engineers and technology enthusiasts with decades of business building experience at companies like Arm and Vodafone. Now we use our operational experience and commercial relationships to help startups reach their potential.

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AI revolution accelerates, Mag 7 continues astronomical capex spending on LLM build up, and yet many of us working professionals are seeking AI solutions addressing real-world challenges on the factory floor. I am sharing a small, yet very tangible and powerful use case where domain specific SVM delivers scalable solution to reduce manual tasks, increase defect detection accuracy and consistency, reduce inspection cycle time, and generate significant cost reduction.

You can learn more about Mindtrace's Brain-Sense™ Platform and our welding brains in our latest case study below!

How realistic is the road to high-performance and robust satellite compute? David Pollington investigates developments in the space industry: https://lnkd.in/eX3T2n-n

Really exciting news from Crypta Labs, announcing their collaboration with Qrng Solutions Ltd to offer quantum random numbers generated on demand!

Whilst the media have been captivated by the race to ever bigger and more powerful foundational models, future revenues in GenAI will be pinned on making these models useful to Enterprise, and accessible to users on their own devices.  I wrote a piece on fine-tuning LLMs for Enterprise last year... since then the pace of innovation has been astonishing, but challenges remain in improving the knowledge, understanding, reasoning and scaling of LLMs to truly realise their potential #LLMs #GenAI #reasoning #SLMs #edgeAI

Generative AI is facing some big challenges which could inhibit widespread adoption of LLMs such as nuance, reasoning and compute power.

David Pollington delves into some of these challenges and how they're being addressed through technology: https://lnkd.in/gCbiQJCt

🤔 How can startup founders navigate financial challenges and build powerful networks? 

Discover the crucial strategies that can make or break your startup journey. Our latest article dives deep into understanding capital structure, leveraging networks, and building strategic investor relationships.

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The YellowDog Platform has been tested by FSI experts at AWS to see how it would handle typical workloads of millions of small tasks at once. Results here:

Why is QRNG technology so important when it comes to Quantum computers? Jose Luis Garcia Coello delves into the future of cryptography:

In this session at #CWTEC, titled 'What Does the Future of AI Look Like?' and chaired by Julia Gwilt, Partner at Appleyard Lees IP LLP, we will discuss AI's trajectory, covering new models, hybrid systems, sustainability in AI training, multi-agent systems, and explainable AI, aiming to foster discussion on the future of AI technologies.

🎤 Jade Hind, CGI - This talk will delve into the transformative potential of Generative AI to create deeply personalised experiences. By moving beyond generic recommendations, AI can deliver services that truly reflect individual preferences, benefiting both consumers and businesses.
🎤 David Pollington, Bloc Ventures - AI innovation is continuing at breakneck speed with advances being published weekly by both academia and the private sector. This talk will explore a number of these areas including: improving AI knowledge and reasoning through agentic workflows; boosting AI’s understanding through causal and neuro-symbolic AI; and the importance of integrated photonics and neuromorphic computing in combating the compute scaling barriers.
🎤 Detlef Nauck, BT Group - There is more to Generative AI or GenAI than ChatGPT. While the public discussion and the media are dominated by large language models, and image or video creation, there is another development happening in the background that is bound to change how we do science and engineering in the future. This talk will give an outlook how the public and not-so-public developments are likely to impact us in the future.

A huge thank you to the organisations who are supporting this conference by sponsoring and exhibiting: VIAVI Solutions, CGI, Ranplan Wireless, EnSilica, AWTG Ltd, IoTAS - Global Wireless Testing and UKTIN! 💙 

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'What does the future of AI look like?' Exploring AI's evolution in knowledge, understanding, reasoning and scaling with David Pollington at #CWTEC 2024: https://lnkd.in/gBmxUJ5

From Cambridge Wireless Ltd on 27th June.

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