Danyal Akarca
21 Aug 2026Router Wars | Callosum $100M | AI Cancer Cures | OpenAI CFO IPO Plans
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Danyal Akarca (Callosum) on the $100M Seed & Chip-Agnostic AI
Callosum co-founder Danyal Akarca joins the studio to discuss the $100M seed announced that morning. He explains how a wave of specialized chips with different trade-offs and the sovereignty movement make Callosum's chip-agnostic platform necessary, why UK talent (Graphcore/ARM lineage) plus people willing to relocate gives Britain an edge, and why the model layer is fragmenting toward orchestration and 'problems solved under constraints' rather than one frontier model. He outlines plans to scale global partnerships (Cerebras, Rebellions) and hiring, and argues Europe's real bottleneck is the psychological shift of unapologetically dreaming bigger.