Keynote speaker & moderator on AI and technology
Tim FrankAndersen
I’ve worked in tech for 30 years. Right now the big shift is AI
- I help organisations understand what’s real, what’s next, and what’s in it for them.
About
Thirty years in tech - from founding one of Denmark’s first digital agencies to co-founding Institute of AI. Author, tech expert on TV, and advisor to some of the world’s biggest brands.
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Format 01
Keynote - The AI Explosion
What’s real, what’s next, and what’s in it for you. Live demos, honest answers, and a look at the next 12-24 months, which will change our world.
Format 02
Moderator
The person tying it all together - sharp questions and a clear thread through your conference.
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“He inspired us all. Not a generic set of examples, but real, recent insight - told with genuine care for the work we do.”
Marc Amin
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Today in AI - 5 curated news stories that matter
Curated by Tim, every morning.
- 01
An OpenAI exec wanted Washington to scare you off open models
OpenAI's head of strategic futures argued the US government should find a pretext to manufacture fear and doubt around open-weight models, because open models scare investors away from frontier labs. He walked it back hours later, but the sentence is still there. The trigger is Chinese: Kimi K3 at 2.8 trillion parameters, then Alibaba's Qwen3.8 at 2.4 trillion, both headed for free download. Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue gave the answer I would underline: restricting open models does not make AI safer, it just concentrates power in fewer hands. If you run a business, open models are your cheapest way in, so watch closely who tries to close that door.
- 02
Bristol Myers Squibb buys the drug industry's most powerful AI factory
Bristol Myers Squibb just became the first life sciences company in the world to buy Nvidia's new DGX SuperPOD built on Vera Rubin, which delivers up to 10 times the performance per megawatt of the previous generation. The hardware is not the headline though. BMS says AI has already cut 20 to 30% off the time it takes to produce a medicine for clinical testing, and they want their scientists steering while the machines grind through the data. Before you get carried away, and I include myself here: not a single AI-designed drug has FDA approval yet. We are still measuring speed, not cures.
- 03
CuspAI raises $450 million to let AI invent new materials
CuspAI raised $450 million yesterday at a $2.6 billion valuation, up from $520 million nine months ago, with Jeff Bezos joining the round. The money builds an AI Materials Foundry: data, labs and compute in one place, so an AI can design a new material and actually get it made and tested, backed by more than 45 founding partners including Nvidia, Meta, Samsung and Hyundai. Notice who else is paying, because this part matters for us in Europe: the UK's sovereign AI fund and the Netherlands' Invest-NL. No commercial material has shipped yet, but that partner list is much harder to dismiss than a pitch deck.
- 04
Alibaba's Qwen3.8 claims second place behind Fable 5
Alibaba previewed Qwen3.8-Max at the Shanghai AI conference and claims it lands second only to Anthropic's Fable 5: 2.4 trillion parameters, multimodal, a 1 million token context window, and open weights promised. Read that last part slowly, because promised is doing a lot of work here. There is no benchmark table, no model card, no license and nothing to download yet. Two Chinese labs announced open models above 2.4 trillion parameters in a single week, and that alone tells you why people in San Francisco are nervous.
- 05
Etched chases a $20 billion valuation for a chip that only runs transformers
Etched is in talks for funding at up to a $20 billion valuation, four times the $5 billion it was worth in December, for a chip that does exactly one thing: run transformers. Its Sohu chip claims 20 times the throughput of an Nvidia H100 by hard-wiring attention into silicon, and the company already holds more than $1 billion in signed customer contracts. That is a very large bet that the transformer sticks around for years. If you think a new architecture is coming, this is the trade you would happily take the other side of.
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I går skrev jeg historien om at jeg selv har bygget mit nye website, hvor man bl.a. kan signe op til at modtage de 5 AI nyhedshistorier som jeg synes er de vigtigste, hver dag i inboksen.
Jeg har lige bygget mit nye website fra bunden med AI - det tog et par dage. Jeg har brugt de sidste 30 år i den digitale branche - bl.a. på at bygge websites og platforme for andre.
Hvad er egentlig den bedste AI-model lige nu? I går aftes lancerede Anthropic deres nyeste model: Claude 4.8, som lige nu ser ud til at have overhalet ChatGPT 5.5.