The Future of AI with Graphcore CEO, Nigel Toon

The Brands Transforming Our World podcast

This month we welcome technology business leader, entrepreneur, engineer Nigel Toon as the latest guest on ‘Brands Transforming Our World’!

Nigel Toon has a storied career at the cutting edge of semiconductor innovation, but is best known for being at the helm of Graphcore, making the Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) chips powering the future of AI.

He’s been named Icon of the Year at the Barclays Entrepreneurs Awards and Business Insider ranked him 1# in its list of the 100 most influential people shaping British technology.

Any readers of his book “How AI Thinks”, will know Nigel has strong views about where AI is heading and we thoroughly enjoyed exploring those with him.

Here’s what to expect:

• From founding Graphcore in a pub to its sale to Softbank
• The future of AI and huge scepticism about AGI
• Just how disruptive DeepSeek will be
• Going back to the Romans for what running a company really means
• Where the massive opportunity for European tech lies

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