Britain offers AI start-ups £100m to fix public services
Four competitions open across the NHS, defence, compute efficiency and agent security. Winners own what they build, and can be paid before they deliver.
Tag: Procurement
22 articles tagged Procurement
Fix the plumbing before the AI, government told
OECD figures show most public sector AI never leaves pilot. SAS argues fragmented legacy data, not model quality, is what decides whether deployments work.
UK public sector has signed £5bn of AI contracts since 2018
Tussell counts 2,129 AI awards across government and councils, with British suppliers now within £90m of catching US firms on cumulative value.
Two dozen tech firms sign letter defending open weights
Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and IBM are among signatories urging US lawmakers against restricting downloadable models, arguing openness aids security.
Cheap Chinese model GLM-5.2 closes gap with US AI leaders
Z.ai's GLM-5.2 performs close to Claude Opus 4.8 at a fraction of the cost, reviving the 'DeepSeek moment' and sharpening procurement questions.
Met chief warns police risk being outwitted by AI crime
Sir Mark Rowley says criminals exploiting AI move faster than forces bound by slow procurement and calls for fewer, larger police forces.
Turing Institute: sustainable Defence AI is a force-resilience question, not a green one
An Alan Turing Institute report for the MOD's Defence AI Centre argues sustainability in Defence AI procurement is primarily a resilience and survivability issue.