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]

@Ollie_journo 🫡

[Tom Hulme @thulme]

@tinie @Arsenal Yes brother 🫶

[HandofArsenal @HandofArsenal]

BUKAYO YOU DID IT ❤️

[Jurrien Timber @JurrienTimber]

How good is god man

[🚨The Celebration Police🚨 @PLCPolice]

Arsenal celebrating like they’ve won the league

[Hussein Kanji @hkanji]

Happy dance @thulme https://t.co/EXArWgHQDE

[Oliver Cameron @olivercameron]

Introducing Starchild-1 from @odysseyml, the first ever real-time multimodal world model.

This a model that can generate interactive simulations of the world that you can—for the first time ever—hear.

Starchild-1 represents a big step towards a general-purpose world simulator.

[Kanishka Narayan MP @KanishkaNarayan]

It was such a privilege to join cofounders, @_rockt and Alexey Dosovitskiy, and a phenomenal team to celebrate @Recursive_SI’s launch and $650m raise last night.

I have been struck by Tim’s exceptional ambition, experience and humility in the last few months. I am delighted he and team will be pushing the frontier of AI right here in the UK 🇬🇧

[Yuandong Tian @tydsh]

NYT Article on @Recursive_SI!

https://t.co/5zrtbXQmJz

[Jeff Clune @jeffclune]

Thrilled to share that we founded Recursive to create AI that safely conducts experiments on how to improve itself in an open-ended process of endless, automated scientific discovery. As I wrote in my 2019 AI-generating algorithms paper, this will likely be the fastest path to superintelligence. Our work since has shown the power of this approach. Excited to scale up and improve upon ideas like the Darwin Gödel Machine, HyperAgents, ADAS, OMNI, ALMA, The AI Scientist, PromptBreeder, Rainbow Teaming, Automated Capability Discovery, and other work on open-ended and AI-generating algorithms. We’ve assembled a dream team of researchers and significant resources to pursue this vision. My amazing co-founders are pictured here, and we have an all-star team of founding members (we’re over 25 and growing).

Please join us if you are interested! Follow our progress @Recursive_SI

[Julian Coda-Forno @juliancodaforno]

Some news: I’ve moved to London to join @Recursive_SI! 🚀
I'm excited to be building with this incredible team on a mission of recursive self-improvement and open-endedness, aiming to ultimately automate scientific discovery. 🧑‍🔬

[Dominik Schmidt @schmidtdominik_]

some news: I've joined @Recursive_SI as a member of the founding team in London.

We are building safe, recursively self-improving intelligence. So excited about our discoveries so far and even more so about everything that lies ahead.

[Tom Hulme @thulme]

We're excited to co-lead @Recursive_SI's early funding

Last week I sat down with Recursive's CEO @RichardSocher to hear about their vision for a recursive "Eureka machine" to rewrite its own code and automate scientific discovery.

It is an incredible approach to chasing the next genuine step-function S-curve, led by a world-class team with deep humility.

[GV @GVteam]

AI is code, and now that AI can code, we can close the self-improvement loop. GV is proud to co-lead the early round for @recursive_si as they build systems that safely automate the scientific method to achieve superintelligence. Congrats @richardsocher & team!

[Tom Hulme @thulme]

@GVteam @Recursive_SI @RichardSocher Watch our whole conversation: https://t.co/35q0NRGGnR

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

I’ve always believed the No.1 application of AI should be to improve human health.

That work started with AlphaFold, and now at @IsomorphicLabs with the mission to reimagine drug discovery and one day solve all disease!

We are turbocharging that goal with $2.1B in new funding.

[GV @GVteam]

We’re excited to co-lead the Series E for @SierraPlatform!
In less than 3 years, @btaylor and @claybavor have led Sierra to historic progress at the AI application layer, helping the world’s largest brands transform their customer experiences. Thrilled to back the team as they scale.

[Tom Hulme @thulme]

@btaylor excited to support you and @claybavor on this journey 🚀🚀

[Carl Pei @getpeid]

I haven’t typed a message in months.

Today, we’re launching what replaced it: Essential Voice.

Hold the Essential Key and speak. Your words turn into ready-to-use writing — without the ums, stutters or messy transcripts.

I type at ~50 wpm. I speak at ~150.

Essential Voice supports 100+ languages, auto-detects what you’re saying, and works directly inside Nothing OS. No extra app. No overlay.

Voice will be a much bigger part of how we use technology. This is the beginning.

Live now on Phone (3). Phone (4a) Pro later this month. Phone (4a) in early May.

[Neuralink @neuralink]

Life with ALS or a spinal cord injury often means navigating a gradual or sudden loss of independence.

Neuralink aims to restore autonomy to those with unmet medical needs—starting with device control and communication, and expanding toward vision and other applications.

[Tom Hulme @thulme]

"The UK's science:slop ratio is better than anywhere" @KanishkaNarayan