Julian Sawyer
Team at Bitstamp · Team at Gemini · CEO at Zodia Custody
Julian Sawyer is the CEO of Zodia Custody, the former CEO at Bitstamp and a co-founder of Starling Bank. He was formerly the Managing Director of the UK and Europe at Gemini and Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer at Starling, where he led it through periods of hyper growth, including scaling its app which has recently reached one million customers. Starling Bank is one of the largest mobile banks disrupting the retail banking sector in the United Kingdom (UK). Julian also oversaw Starling's business operations, including payment systems, card operations, and customer support. Prior to this, he started Bluerock Consulting, a financial management consultancy which he sold in . Over the past years, he has worked in high-growth financial services organizations, including as a management consultant at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and Ernst & Young, where he specialized in large-scale transformation in the cards and payments industry. Europe is the birthplace of modern financial markets and the UK has been a global financial capital of innovation for hundreds of years. The concept of thoughtful regulation was first developed from the lessons learned in these markets over centuries.
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$GOOGL CEO: Gemini 3.5 Pro is currently in testing, and our team is already building the next generation of models. We have started our most ambitious pre-training run yet for Gemini 4, and are excited by the progress we are seeing at the Frontier.
BREAKING: Grok 4.5 just beat Google Gemini 3.5 Flash High in AskClash’s under-$5 budget workload benchmark. Grok 4.5 ranked #1 with a score of 75.4, while Gemini 3.5 Flash High scored 50.7 Grok 4.5 is the most cost-effective model in the benchmark. 🏆
$GOOGL KPIs: Cloud: +82% YoY (Est. +63%-+67%) Search & Other: +17% YoY YouTube Ads: +13% YoY U.S. 🇺🇸 Revenue: +32% YoY EMEA 🇪🇺: +15% YoY APAC: +17% YoY “Gemini models now process 22 billion API tokens per minute and the Gemini App has 950 million monthly active users.”
Google closes in on another billion user product with Gemini
normie buddy of mine told me he uses gemini over chatgpt now. not sure what the lesson is, just observing.
说一个冷知识：Gemini 哪里来的950m mau？！ 这是因为Google将Google Assistant（mobile）升级到Gemini，所以原来的用户就顺势迁移到Gemini ps：9.5亿，说明Google强大的分发能力
📢 AINFT API now supports Grok 4.5, Gemini 3.6 Flash & Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite! 🔹 Grok 4.5: xAI’s flagship model, built for complex coding and autonomous agent workflows. 🔹 Gemini 3.6 Flash: Enhanced performance with higher-quality outputs at the same cost and significantly lower token usage. 🔹 Ge
RT @VijarKohli: Google Slides has become very good. Gemini creates very high quality content for any topic. Then I convert it to Google Vid…
Google’s Gemini tech boosts ad relevance, conversion rates
RT @Gemini: Happy 5 years to the @pudgypenguins team!🐧 Keep waddling🚀💙 https://t.co/cNNJI3rBSp