By Paul Sandle

LONDON, Dec 10 (Reuters) – Nick Clegg, the former president of global affairs at Meta and deputy prime minister of Britain, has joined founder-led ‍venture capital firm HIRO Capital to invest in spatial AI innovation in Europe, the firm said on Wednesday.

Clegg will join HIRO’s general partners Luke Alvarez, Cherry Freeman and British computer games legend Ian Livingstone in the new HIRO III fund, which ‌is understood to have more than 500 ‌million euros ($582 million) to deploy.

Yann LeCun, who recently announced he was standing down as Meta’s chief AI scientist, will join HIRO’s advisory board, it said.

Clegg, who left Meta in January, said there was a shared belief in the HIRO team that the next stage of technology would be focused ‍on spatial, immersive computing pla

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