Talfan Evans is co-founder and CEO of Cursive and runs Clay VC, an angel syndicate investing in creative AI. Previously, he was a senior research scientist at Google DeepMind working on compute-efficient multimodal pre-training. He held research fellowships at Imperial College London's Dyson Robotics Lab and UCL, studying perception, memory and distributed inference. He earned a PhD in computational neuroscience and an MRes at UCL after studying engineering science at Oxford.
Co-founder and CEO
Founder and Investor
Founder
Research on pre-training compute efficiency for multimodal foundation models.
Dyson Research Fellow
Visual and spatial perception research for robotics and autonomous vehicles.
Research Fellow
PhD, Computational Neuroscience
MRes, Modelling Biological Complexity
Studies in Engineering Science
