Tom Hulme

Managing Partner @GVTeam (Google Ventures) // MBE for Military Service in 2025 //
Previously founded @OpenIDEO @IDEO

[Tom Hulme @thulme]

My TED talk has now had over 1.5 million views
(the power of Ted rather than the power of Tom)
https://t.co/FeVi6fm7Ts

[Tom Hulme @thulme]

Self-driving cars and AI security share the same messy transition: mixing humans and machines.

On roads, mixing unpredictable humans with AVs creates friction before all-AV fleets make safety soar.

Online, AI attack vs human defence is broken. We need AI on defence.

[OpenRouter @OpenRouter]

Flint from @Recursive_SI is now on OpenRouter!

Recursive's first model: an open-weight 40B MoE (~2.5B active) built for coding agents by their autoresearch system, the Eureka Machine. 262K context, reasoning and tool calling.

Recursive reports 54.9% on Terminal-Bench 2.1, 89.7% on SWE-bench Pro v2 and 74.2% on SWE-bench Verified.

Free to use at launch.

Try it now: https://t.co/8XU9Vqm3jk

[Flapping Airplanes @flappyairplanes]

We’ve developed the world’s most complete megakernel framework. It can perform entire training runs, serve inference, play video games, and even do all three simultaneously in a single kernel.

[Thomas Wolf @Thom_Wolf]

My bar for AGI is still an AI winning a Nobel.

But an AI researcher looking at the lm_head (that *everyone* tells you to keep in high precision) deciding to quantize it to 4 bits AND being actually right (0.7pt from bf16) is definitely impressive.

Even better when the result are open-weights pushed on the Hugging Gace hub.

Congrats @Recursive_SI !

[GV @GVteam]

The @recursive_si team just introduced Flint, a state-of-the-art local coding model. Flint is 2x faster than comparable models and was built in under four months — an impressive pace from an equally impressive team. Congrats @RichardSocher and the Recursive team!

[Tom Hulme @thulme]

@Recursive_SI More on Recursive Flint in WIRED: https://t.co/8xcdSz7GyD

[Tom Hulme @thulme]

Evolution created the 20W human brain through open-ended search, pushing compute to the edge so latency wouldn't let entropy win.

@Recursive_SI is running accelerated evolution. Instead of hiring more researchers, their Eureka Machine built Flint in under 4 months.

https://t.co/vwsk18L6e5

[Jeff Clune @jeffclune]

Great summary of our work on Flint by @cong_ml

[Tom Hulme @thulme]

Inference moves to the edge ->

A capable coding model that runs fast on a laptop, with your code never needing to leave your machine...

Accelerating progress from the team @Recursive_SI - give Flint a try...

[Richard Socher @RichardSocher]

Introducing Flint, @Recursive_SI’s first model: a fast local coding model built with our automated research system, the Eureka Machine.

• Best-in-class fast local coding
• Up to 2x faster than comparable models: 125+ tokens/sec on a MacBook Pro, 150+ on RTX Spark
• Built from scratch in under 4 months

Private, unmetered intelligence on your own machine. Open weights available now on @huggingface, run it locally on your favorite framework or try it for free on @opencode or @pidotdev.

[Tom Hulme @thulme]

@izakaminska This is why it's so tricky to write a good non-fiction book!

[Tom Hulme @thulme]

Being British in the AI era is a thermodynamic liability.

I want to be default courteous so I don't train myself to bark orders like a sociopath—but every standalone "Thanks, that's great!" forces an H100 cluster to reload 20,000 tokens just to tell me "You're very welcome!"

[Tom Hulme @thulme]

Ride-hailing and food delivery vouchers were the greatest consumer subsidy of the 2010s.

In 2026, it’s AI agents. Tools like Instinct and Muse are completely free to use, $000's of frontier GPU compute and digital labour, 100% subsidised for the consumer.

[Tom Hulme @thulme]

The time it takes to turn a hacker tool into a mass-consumer product has collapsed:

• IRC → Slack: 25 yrs
• Napster → Spotify: 9.5 yrs
• Bitcoin CLI → Coinbase: 4 yrs
• GPT-3 API → ChatGPT: 2.5 yrs
• OpenClaw → Instinct & Muse: 9 months

Evolution is running on fast-forward.

[Tom Hulme @thulme]

AI might be ruining my "mental VO2 max."

Instead of 60 mins of uncomfortable, high-lactate deep thinking (Zone 4), I now spend all day managing 8 smart digital agents—doing Zone 1 editorial cruising broken up by 10s context-switching sprints.

High output. Zero hypertrophy.

[Tim Rocktäschel @_rockt]

Thanks @JensenHuang & @nvidia for supporting UK startups. We started @Recursive_SI in both London and SF from day 0 because of the outstanding talent and ecosystem here.

[Pushmeet Kohli @pushmeet]

Gemini 4 Argon is a step change in model performance.

In recent weeks, it has had a transformative impact on the Science projects in our team at @GoogleDeepMind and our external collaborators, and helped make a number of remarkable advances across scientific disciplines. 🧵👇

[Tom Hulme @thulme]

Another Easter egg added, this time with Gemini4 -->

[Tom Hulme @thulme]

My @GeminiApp Agent and I have rebuilt my personal site, and included an Easter 🥚, will be interesting to see if anyone finds it -->

https://t.co/jUrfELiBNy

Incredible to be 90% voice in the interaction 🗣️

[Tom Hulme @thulme]

@demishassabis I agree! I used Gemini 4 to help build nostalgic Easter eggs into to my personal site here https://t.co/wX5NLSc4gK

[Victor Riparbelli @vriparbelli]

#1 customer question since 2017:

“When can I send an avatar to a meeting for me?”

Today, we’re launching @synthesiaIO Sessions - live Avatar conversations that help scale your time, so you can:

- Train 1,000 sales reps in a day

- Do 1:1’s with 2,000 employees at once

- Interview 3,000 customers a week

Try it free 👇

[Tom Hulme @thulme]

@vriparbelli @synthesiaIO Excited to use this!