Ross Taylor
17 Jun 2026Fable 5 Recall, EU’s AI Plan, UK Ban U16 Socials, Le Chaton Fat, Hex Sponsor etn
2:34:2217 min
Ross Taylor (General Reasoning) — Scaling Economics, DeepMind & UK Sovereignty
Ross Taylor distills his viral tweet on the sovereign AI debate: frontier scaling takes tens of billions, but validating new directions takes far less compute, and premature scaling is 'the root of all evil.' He weighs DeepMind's positive spillovers against its Google ownership, discusses US capital flowing into King's Cross and retaining first-generation UK talent, and describes the unglamorous engineering reality of LLM work from his Meta days post-training Llama 2 and 3. He confirms General Reasoning is preparing a first model release and that building in London hasn't been an obstacle.