![]() Faculty was also awarded an $800,000 contract by the Home Office to develop an AI system that could spot terrorist propaganda on social networks. The Guardian newspaper reported in July that the company received £260,000 from Dominic Cummings, who was British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's chief advisor until last week. "I didn't know that that they were doing that," said Tallinn. Bates, a university dropout, began his career in network operations and internet infrastructure. Previously, he held a number of technology based business roles including the former president of GoPro, and the former executive vice president of Microsoft responsible for business development, strategy and evangelism and former CEO of Skype. ![]() Bates is the former CEO of Growth at Social Capital. One of Tallinn's more controversial start-up bets is a cryptocurrency investment of around $1 million into Faculty.ai, a London firm that builds AI software for companies and governments worldwide.įaculty gained notoriety after it emerged that it had helped the "Vote Leave" campaign to take Britain out of the European Union. Bates is a British born business leader and on he was appointed to CEO of Genesys. Tallinn has also given funding to a number of university research labs including Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute and Cambridge's Center for the Study of Existential Risk. Elon Musk and Peter Thiel also backed DeepMind early on. He profited from an early bet on London AI start-up DeepMind, which Google acquired for $600 million in 2014. ![]() The entrepreneur-turned-investor has focused on companies that have artificial intelligence at their core. Through his various investment firms (the main one being Metaplanet Holdings), Tallinn's currently investing in roughly one new company a month with anywhere from $500,000 to several million dollars.
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