Arry Tapiheroe

Robotics 🤖 at @wayve_ai • A dad to Matilda • A 🥝 in the UK 🇳🇿🇬🇧 • My tweets are my own

[Seb Johnson @SebJohnsonUK]

King's Cross is becoming the leading AI hub outside of the US.

It houses Meta, DeepMind, Wayve, Synthesia and now OpenAI.

[Jen Zhu @jenzhuscott]

When I was consulting for @HBO Silicon Valley, zero-loss compression was the holy grail Richard Hendricks chases that perfect middle-out algo could shrink everything w/out breaking a single bit.

Google just did something even more practical for the AI era: TurboQuant compresses LLM key-value caches down to 3 bits per value using random orthogonal rotation + PolarQuant scalar quantization & optional 1-bit QJL residual correction.

=>> 6× memory reduction, up to 8× faster attention (on H100), & 0 degradation on LongBench, Needle-in-a-Haystack, and RULER for models like Gemma. No retraining, no calibration needed.

Fiction just got out-engineered by reality. 😅💚💚

[Wayve @wayve_ai]

Wayve has secured $1.5B to deploy our embodied AI platform globally.

Autonomy should work everywhere, in every condition, across every type of vehicle.

We are building a driving intelligence that learns to drive in places it has never seen before.

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

The UK is an amazing place for science & innovation. Thrilled to deepen our partnership with the UK Government to turbocharge scientific discovery with AI - giving scientists here priority access to our frontier models like AlphaEvolve, AI Co-Scientist, AlphaGenome, WeatherNext & more. We’re also building our first automated lab here in the UK for materials science!

[Julia Willemyns @jujulemons]

imo this is a HUGE deal

Google DeepMind and the UK govt have just signed a partnership w/ 3 pillars:
1. transforming public services
2. accelerating scientific discovery
3. advancing AI security & resilience

Concrete bits that matter:
- a Gemini model trained on the UK national curriculum to support teachers & students
- priority access for UK scientists to tools like AI Coscientist, AlphaEvolve, AlphaGenome & WeatherNext
- AI projects with the govt. to modernise public services

BUT the materials lab is possibly the MOST exciting bit: a fully automated facility, integrated with Gemini, using robotics to synthesise & characterise hundreds of materials per day.

Imagine what AI + robot lab team searching for new superconductors, better solar materials, more efficient semiconductors could mean for the UK.

Christmas came early thanks to @demishassabis 🥰🥰🥰

[Apple Podcasts @ApplePodcasts]

Five years ago, two English historians started a podcast to occupy themselves during lockdown, and The Rest Is History. 📚

Our 2025 Show of the Year, @theresthistory, is a banter-filled trip to the past with hosts @DCSandbrook and @Holland_Tom.

https://t.co/VIN3jWDh1b

[Dominic Sandbrook @dcsandbrook]

It's an incredible honour for @TheRestHistory to be named @ApplePodcasts Show of the Year - the first ever non-US winner.

It's something @holland_tom and I never anticipated when he suggested doing the show in 2020, and tribute to the hard work of our wonderful & talented team.

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

A wild ride...

[Arry Tapiheroe @arrykiwi]

@jhallwood It would be a shame for it to collapse. It’s been fun but it hasn’t been the same since it turned to X

[Sebastiaan de With @sdw]

Teenage Engineering is insane in the best possible way

[Alex Kendall @alexgkendall]

Today is a significant milestone for @wayve_ai, as we proudly announce our $1.05 billion Series C from @SoftBank_Group, @Microsoft and @nvidia. Since the start we've held a contrarian belief that end-to-end AI will make autonomy possible. I'm excited about this massive endorsement of our vision and the opportunity to launch our first Embodied AI product for automotive.

Here's our full press release: https://t.co/J98xv30fCM

[Arry Tapiheroe @arrykiwi]

@jhallwood Yes please. I'll vote for you, James!!

[Alex Kendall @alexgkendall]

This is mesmerising! 😎 We're seeing some incredible robust behaviour emerge from our AI Driver.

This video shows @wayve_ai's autonomous vehicle driving through London. With no lidar, no HD-maps, no hand-coded rules. Just pure on-board intelligence from our end-to-end neural network. #EmbodiedAI

Long, continuous, complex, uninterrupted stretches of autonomy always impress me the most. So I cut this video of a full drive I went on last week with some highlights at the start, then showing the full uninterrupted video afterwards.

The video starts with my highlights which were 2 unprotected turns in heavy traffic, then nudging into an intersection to make another turn, and then 2 videos of overtaking a bus. Keep on watching for the full run!

[Tony Fadell @tfadell]

October 23, 2001 the original #iPod was introduced “1,000 songs in your pocket”
I will never forget that day. While production of iPods stopped last year, it’s amazing to see how many of you were and still are iPod fans. Thanks for loving a device that has been such a big part of my life!

[Dr Helen Ingram @drhingram]

I have a new hero

[Arry Tapiheroe @arrykiwi]

I had the (green) iPod nano and the (white plastic) MacBook from this page 🥲

[Sebastiaan de With @sdw]

want to feel old? here’s a 15 year old Apple Store

[Arry Tapiheroe @arrykiwi]

The age of robots is coming! 🤖

[Wayve @wayve_ai]

It’s #GAIA1 world, we just drive in it.
Generate realistic driving videos using only prompts.
See how it works below 🧵

[Specsavers @Specsavers]

There isn’t a single pair of glasses that can help VAR

[Wayve @wayve_ai]

What happens when you introduce natural language to autonomous driving? 👋 Say hello to #LINGO1 Wayve’s open-loop driving commentator 🗣🚘 💬

#EmbodiedIntelligence #AutonomousVehicles #AI

[Wayve @wayve_ai]

Many things have changed since we started end-to-end learned driving in 2017, including the cars we use and the cities we drive in.
But one thing that remains the same is our #embodiedintelligence approach to #selfdriving.