AA

Azeem Azhar

Making sense of the Exponential Age

London, England

Investor
Angel
Founder

Invests in

Stages:

Seed
Pre-seed

Sectors:

London

Locations:

London

  • Min Investment:

    $5,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $50,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $25,000.00

Skills

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Economics
Future of Work
Entrepreneurship
Venture Capital
Machine Learning
Strategy
New Business Development
Business Strategy
Professional Services
New Media
Business Modeling
Social Influence
Applied Probability

Education

Investments

5Mins

Seed

Total Funding: $6M

Papaya

Seed

Total Funding: $68M

Pachama

Series B

Total Funding: $83M

Hofy

Seed

Total Funding: $36M

Brandwatch

Series A

Total Funding: $64M

Dopplr

Angel

Total Funding:

Work Experience

Exponential View

2015

  • Founder

    2015

    Platform to drive macro-level understanding of emerging technologies and their impact on the society.

World Economic Forum

2023

  • Co-Chair, Global Futures Council on Complex Risks

    2023

Harvard Business School

2023

  • Executive Fellow

    2023

Oxford Martin School

2023

  • Visiting Fellow

    2023

N/A

1999

  • Investor

    1999

    Investor in deep tech, climate change, AI, and other exponential themes. I've invested in more than 50 tech startups since 1999.

PeerIndex

2009 - 2014

  • Founder & CEO

    2009 - 2014

    PeerIndex helps companies identify what and who is influencing their customers now. We did amazing things with machine learning and large amounts of data. Raised several rounds of venture capital. Winner of Europas Grand Prix, 2012. Acquired by Brandwatch in December 2014

Latest Articles

Substack•Sep. 2024

🔮 Moore’s law^2; the Trojan horse; Amazon puzzle; North Korean elites, new blood group, bacteria furniture ++ #492

Exponential View
technology
near future
Azeem
Substack•Sep. 2024

🔥 Feel the exponential

Exponential growth of technology
Moore's Law
Keck's Law
Kryder's Law
Solar power
Substack•Sep. 2024

🔮 Why energy tech is eating the world

techno-energy
energy transition
solar power
wind power
batteries
Substack•Sep. 2024

Open thread #6: AI now has an IQ of 120. Does it matter?

OpenAI's o1 model
IQ test
AI intelligence evaluation
Substack•Sep. 2024

🔮 Strawberry; AI hyperpolation; digital twins; obsolete SaaS; dogs on LSD, nanotech & light hazard ++ #491

AI reasoning
hyperpolation
AI limitations
novelty in AI
AI-generated research
Substack•Sep. 2024

🍓 Playing with Strawberry: When machines can reason

OpenAI's new model o1
Strawberry model
reasoning abilities
large language models
chain-of-thought reasoning
Substack•Sep. 2024

🔮 AI exoskeleton; new nuclear age; massive compute; home-first robot, Diverse Intelligence & Bluesky rises ++ #490

exponential technologies
near future
newsletter
Substack•Sep. 2024

🤔 Why humanity needs AI

knowledge creation
scientific progress
decline in research productivity
interdisciplinary science
tools and technology in science
Substack•Sep. 2024

🔮 Best of the month – August 2024

AI implementation
AI scaling
AI cost efficiency
Generative AI funding
AI applications in business
Substack•Sep. 2024

🔮 SpaceX vs Boeing; Telegram; AI Doom; battery crash; lab-grown chicken, social biome & papercuts ++ #489

Technology and the future
Telegram and global regulations
SpaceX and aerospace innovation
Boeing's challenges
Vertical integration in industry
Substack•Aug. 2024

🧨 A telegram about Telegram

Pavel Durov arrest
Telegram
techno-authoritarianism
OSINT analysts
Russian military
Substack•Aug. 2024

🔮 Why I changed my mind on self-driving cars

self-driving cars
autonomous vehicles
Waymo
Wayve
Uber
Substack•Aug. 2024

🔮 AI scaling constraints; importing sunshine; cognitive capital & AI; startup trap, geo engineering & Roblox ++ #488

AI models
AI training compute
economic constraints in AI
GLP-1 agonists
impact of GLP-1 on economies
Substack•Aug. 2024

🤔 On AI, Zuck is bang on

Mark Zuckerberg's decisions
Facebook's data practices
misinformation handling
walled garden social networks
Meta's AI investment
Substack•Aug. 2024

🔮 Today’s most important technology

GLP-1 agonists
Ozempic
Mounjaro
weight management
type 2 diabetes
Substack•Aug. 2024

🔮 Too much exponential?; AI scientists; digital simulacra; moving stones and forging people ++ #487

corporate events
investor conferences
leadership offsites
board meetings
future planning
Substack•Aug. 2024

🧐 Eric Schmidt’s AI prophecy: The next two years will shock you

AI
TikTok
Eric Schmidt
Erik Brynjolfsson
technology competition
Substack•Aug. 2024

🌅 The rooftop energy revolution no one knew about

gas trading
Gunvor's profits
Putin's invasion of Ukraine
gas prices
Pakistan LNG Ltd
Substack•Aug. 2024

🔮 The root of riots; AI‘s climate costs; AGI; the last ICE & bronze age tech ++ #486

exponential technologies
misinformation
disinformation
far-right riots
UK violence
Substack•Aug. 2024

🤔 What bosses miss about AI

AI in coding
AI in businesses
AI implementation levels
AI for cost reduction
AI for process improvement
Substack•Aug. 2024

🔮 Hype is overhyped; GLP-1 surprises; Trump's climate costs; Texas solar, AI necklace & Venezuela ++ #485

exponential technologies
impact on the world
subscriber edition
critical analysis
Substack•Aug. 2024

🧐 Four insights from my trip to Peru

Spanish conquest of the Incas
Incan Empire
cultural exchange
ecological complexity
knowledge and technology
Substack•Jul. 2024

🔮 Open-source AI surge; UBI surprises; AI eats itself; Murdoch’s empire drama & the internet’s Balkanisation ++ #484

Meta's AI strategy
Llama 3.1 release
open-source AI
closed-source AI
AI benchmarks
Substack•Jul. 2024

🔮 Tech’s right shift; predicting complexity; conservatism failure; longevity, synthetic blood & robots ++ #483

small models
GPT-4o mini
cost efficiency
model performance
AI model scalability
Substack•Jul. 2024

💸 Turning UBI on its head

Universal Basic Income (UBI)
technological advancements
artificial intelligence
automation
wealth distribution
Substack•Jul. 2024

🔮 Volt revolution; AI’s Magna Carta; digital Trojan horses; physi-maze madness ++ #482

lithium battery pack prices
China
technological advances
overcapacity
material costs
Substack•Jul. 2024

🧠 AI’s $100bn question: The scaling ceiling

AI model training costs
AI scaling laws
machine learning
deep learning
data usage in AI
Substack•Jul. 2024

🌅 Dawn of the distributed age

solar energy
distributed energy
global energy landscape
Substack•Jul. 2024

🔮 AI's Expensive Foreplay; Superintelligent Bureaucracy; Copernican Tantrum; Supershoe Records & BYD's Sexy Mishap ++ #481

AI gold rush
infrastructure investment
GPUs shortage
GPUs glut
future earnings shortfall
Substack•Jul. 2024

🎉A letter to the PM: Technology and optimism

Keir Starmer
UK Prime Minister
nuclear codes
international relations
Joe Biden
Substack•Jul. 2024

Just voted… 🇬🇧

UK election
voting
Conservative government
Brexit
economic impact
Substack•Jul. 2024

🔮 If the world ran like Google...

carbon efficiency
global emissions
Google
datacenters
energy consumption
Substack•Jun. 2024

🔮 Genome architects; Chinese cables; sun & the data centre; rising rivals; hair juche & Schrodinger’s AI cat ++ #480

collapse of traditional news outlets
meetings and speaking engagements
Elon Musk
New York
British media
Substack•Jun. 2024

🔮Ilya’s resurrection; new news; copyright & AI; heat pumps, telepathic tech leaders, Xi's cities & API bills ++ #479

changing news landscape
Ilya Sutskever
architecture of participation
AI
Substack•Jun. 2024

🤔 Claude 3 is the Macintosh of AI

Claude 3 vs ChatGPT
user interface comparison
Apple vs Microsoft
graphical user interface (GUI)
AI character training
Substack•Jun. 2024

🔮 Apple’s Intelligence; AI, patterns or understanding?; Tariff Tension; Plant minds & chess moves ++ #478

Apple Intelligence
Tongwei
solar manufacturing
OpenAI
globalisation challenges
Substack•Jun. 2024

🌏 AI, reshoring and development

globalization
reshoring
supply chains
China+1 strategies
friendshoring
Substack•Jun. 2024

🔥 The AI squeeze

Klarna
AI impact on recruitment
fintech
Sebastian Siemiatkowski
attrition rates
Substack•Jun. 2024

🔮 Exponential asymmetry in war; AI & complexity; Chinese Fordism; origami, Nvidia & Ozempic ++ #477

electric vehicles
Chinese workers
China's cost advantage
global market
traditional military defenses
Substack•Jun. 2024

🤔 The misinformation about misinformation

online misinformation
democracy
moral panic
Ceren Budak
Duncan Watts
Substack•Jun. 2024

What to expect when you’re expecting GPT-5

GPT-5
AI capabilities
Model scaling
AI research advancements
Eric Schmidt's AI predictions
Substack•Jun. 2024

📈 Nvidia-a-a-a-a-a-a

Nvidia
stock market
S&P 500
Apple
company valuation
Substack•Jun. 2024

🔮 AI & creativity; exponential compute; peak GHGs, recycling concrete & marriage saves lives ++ #476

AI and divergent thinking
scientific process and AI
macroeconomic impact of AI
GHG emissions
Daron Acemoglu's research
Substack•May 2024

🔮 The brave new knowledge ecosystem; Chat Xi PT; deglobalisation; electric Ethiopia ++ #475

AI-curated knowledge ecosystem
trust in AI
explainability in AI
reversible computing
energy efficiency in computation
Substack•May 2024

🇬🇧 Seven exponential policies for a new government

UK General Election
Conservative Party
Labour Party
Liberal Democrats
Members of Parliament (MPs)