Alex Kendall

CEO at @wayve_ai teaching cars how to drive with machine learning 🇳🇿

[Alex Kendall @alexgkendall]

Congratulations again on your appointment @KanishkaNarayan and thank you for your call on day one!

Looking forward to working with you on successful deployment of physical AI in the UK, starting with our robotaxi trial in London.

[Kanishka Narayan MP @KanishkaNarayan]

48 hours since @10DowningStreet appointed me AI Minister, and feeling relentlessly focused on shaping AI with British leadership:

**We reindustrialise with AI manufacturing** 🏭
-- First call with @demishassabis on turning British advantage into British jobs
-- Spoke to @AlexGKendall about our shared interest in making Britain the home of physical AI jobs
-- Affirmed @Arm's role as UK AI champion directly with @renehaas237
-- Joined @JReynoldsMP in speaking to x-tech sector CEOs: we are doubling down on tech prosperity for every nation and region

**British security, British influence now rely on AI** 🇬🇧
-- Stocktake of Britain's leadership in AI cyber with @NCSC CEO
-- Plans to secure British AI with chiefs of UK intelligence communities
-- Ambition for @AISecurityInst remaining the world's AI security talent home, with AISI CEO
-- @UKSovereignAI Managing Partner and I talked through next stages of ambition

**AI that works for people** 🤝
-- Worker tacit knowledge is central to good AI adoption, an ambition reshared with @mikeclancy1 at @ProspectUnion
-- Thank you, @GMBGarySmith, for recognising AI as the major driver of risk and opportunity for British jobs
-- AI works only if it works across the country, led by our communities; some practical steps agreed with @KatieGallagher @UK_TCG

**Working with an exceptional team** ✨
-- First Cabinet, with the PM affirming how crucial AI is
-- Meeting brilliant ministerial and official teams at @cabinetofficeuk and @biztradegovuk, the two depts where I started my Civil Service career ~15 years ago
-- Ceremony highlight: first Privy Council meeting!

Just getting started!

[Semafor @semafor]

Semafor has announced the expanded Global Advisory Board for Silicon Valley & The World — a first-of-its-kind, multi-year initiative bringing together the leaders building transformative technologies with the policymakers shaping how they are deployed.

With more than 40 global figures joining the board — including @patrickc, @eldsjal, Jane Fraser, @ajassy, Jay Y. Lee, Dilhan Pillay Sandrasegara, @GinaRaimondo, @AravSrinivas, and Hiroki Totoki, alongside co-chairs Jensen Huang, Divesh Makan, @satyanadella, Ruth Porat, and @LisaSu — this group reflects the full spectrum of power driving the AI economy.

Designed to move the conversation beyond debate, the platform will bring together more than 350 founders, CEOs, investors, and policymakers in November, uniting the leaders with the ability to fund, scale, and implement new ideas.

[Kanishka Narayan MP @KanishkaNarayan]

48 hours since @10DowningStreet appointed me AI Minister, and feeling relentlessly focused on shaping AI with British leadership:

**We reindustrialise with AI manufacturing** 🏭
-- First call with @demishassabis on turning British advantage into British jobs
-- Spoke to @AlexGKendall about our shared interest in making Britain the home of physical AI jobs
-- Affirmed @Arm's role as UK AI champion directly with @renehaas237
-- Joined @JReynoldsMP in speaking to x-tech sector CEOs: we are doubling down on tech prosperity for every nation and region

**British security, British influence now rely on AI** 🇬🇧
-- Stocktake of Britain's leadership in AI cyber with @NCSC CEO
-- Plans to secure British AI with chiefs of UK intelligence communities
-- Ambition for @AISecurityInst remaining the world's AI security talent home, with AISI CEO
-- @UKSovereignAI Managing Partner and I talked through next stages of ambition

**AI that works for people** 🤝
-- Worker tacit knowledge is central to good AI adoption, an ambition reshared with @mikeclancy1 at @ProspectUnion
-- Thank you, @GMBGarySmith, for recognising AI as the major driver of risk and opportunity for British jobs
-- AI works only if it works across the country, led by our communities; some practical steps agreed with @KatieGallagher @UK_TCG

**Working with an exceptional team** ✨
-- First Cabinet, with the PM affirming how crucial AI is
-- Meeting brilliant ministerial and official teams at @cabinetofficeuk and @biztradegovuk, the two depts where I started my Civil Service career ~15 years ago
-- Ceremony highlight: first Privy Council meeting!

Just getting started!

[Alex Kendall @alexgkendall]

Great to see the @FT cover our $85m Employee Tender on the front page. Wayve is the first major company to use PISCES, London's new private market, which felt right for us as a British company competing at the frontier of AI.

I’m proud that the special team who built @wayve_ai, including many of us in London, will have the chance to share in our now global success story!

[Alex Kendall @alexgkendall]

Great to be in NYC with Ivan Espinosa and @dkhos for France–Sweden World Cup match ⚽

Since @NissanMotor, @Uber and @wayve_ai announced our robotaxi partnership earlier this year, our teams have been driving quickly toward launch 🙌 great chance to catch up amid all the action!

[Alex Kendall @alexgkendall]

More in @TechCrunch: https://t.co/KmOZeRIfwG

And our blog: https://t.co/3hQXUX42o5

Join us! https://t.co/5G8F9NncBb

[Alex Kendall @alexgkendall]

Today we're announcing an $85M Employee Tender, following our Series D that valued Wayve at $8.6 billion

This is the second time @wayve_ai has done this, reflecting our commitment to retain and reward the best talent in our industry 🙌

[Wayve @wayve_ai]

"The seed of Stellantis’s bet on Wayve was sown on a test ride in London, when the technology wowed the carmaker’s CTO, Ned Curic, with its humanlike way of edging into flowing traffic."

Wayve in the @WSJ! 📰

[Alex Kendall @alexgkendall]

Thanks for riding with @wayve_ai in London @StephenWilmot! 🌊

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Wayve is emerging as a go-to partner for traditional automakers trying to keep up with Silicon Valley. https://t.co/lX7WinxRTx

[Alex Kendall @alexgkendall]

Historic moment for global autonomous driving regulation this week! The @UNECE has approved the first global AV regulatory framework. This is a major milestone creating a clear and globally consistent path for deploying autonomy around the world.

Regulations were agreed covering world-wide deployment of L2 hands-off, L3 eyes-off and L4 driverless products:

➡️ A UN regulation for type approval, applied in markets such as Europe, Japan and the UK

➡️ A Global Technical Regulation (GTR), which can be applied by self-certification markets, such as the USA and Canada

This outcome-focused, technology-agnostic regulation is essential to unlocking AI-powered autonomy safely and at scale. 🙌

At @wayve_ai, we've been working hard on this for many years. This amazing result follows many years of debate, compromise, and collaboration across GRVA, WP.29, and many working groups. I am particularly proud of the impact Wayve has had through our policy experts who have spent many valuable hours negotiating the right safety standard for AVs. This effort has been spearheaded by @gates_sj and Wayve's L4 regulatory expert Morgan Jones who provided support as the Industry Co-Pilot for the L3/4 Regulation.

You can read more in our blog: https://t.co/vy4EG14pig

[Alex Kendall @alexgkendall]

Business moves at the speed of trust 🚀

Great to host Stellantis CTO Ned Curic in London last week as we announced our growing partnership across all levels of autonomy, all around the world.

[Alex Kendall @alexgkendall]

News: @Stellantis + @Uber + @wayve_ai are developing global robotaxis

This builds on our existing partnerships with these companies and is further evidence of our industry’s growing belief in end-to-end deep learning for autonomous driving 🚀

https://t.co/CugCO30knQ

[Alex Kendall @alexgkendall]

Fantastic day with these two legends @peterkyle & @mati at @Founders_Forum 🚀

[Alex Kendall @alexgkendall]

Was a treat to drive Chancellor @RachelReevesMP to London Tech Week to give her opening speech, with @LucyRigby and @gates_sj - on the day we invited signups for our @Uber robotaxi service 🙌

[dara khosrowshahi @dkhos]

The countdown is on 🇬🇧 ...

[The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes]

Driverless taxis ‘picking up fares in London this summer’ https://t.co/ygIfUi6wrd

[Alex Kendall @alexgkendall]

@jontycorrin I've already done that many times :)

[Bloomberg @business]

Uber Technologies has set up a waitlist for customers interested in riding in a robotaxi in London https://t.co/cGi2EbFuVG

[Andrew Macdonald @andrewgordonmac]

Getting closer! Launch incoming with @wayve_ai in London