Tag: Sovereign AI
39 articles tagged Sovereign AI
Cambridge spinout launches a British frontier model
Flower Labs says its Endeavor model matches US rivals on task performance and runs inside the customer's own estate, with JP Morgan already on its books.
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.
Red Hat tells government sovereign AI is control, not geography
Red Hat's UK public sector adviser argues sovereignty means a department can operate, inspect and repair its own systems without a vendor granting leave.
UK counts the cost of losing access to frontier AI models
The Cabinet Office has ordered an urgent estimate of what British business would forfeit if the newest US models were closed to UK users.
Microsoft to fund Mistral's European compute build-out
Microsoft will spend billions on Mistral's French data centres and distribute its models, in a deal aimed at Europe's push for sovereign AI infrastructure.
AMD, Dell and Cambridge open UK sovereign AI lab SAIL
AMD, Dell and the University of Cambridge are launching the Sovereign AI Innovation Lab, adding to a fast-growing Cambridge cluster of public AI compute.
BNP Paribas scales Mistral partnership to counter Claude Mythos-class AI cyber threats
French bank's CIO Marc Camus says European lenders risk lagging US peers on access to advanced cybersecurity AI, with Mythos-class tools forcing parallel vulnerability remediation at unprecedented scale.
HMRC awards Quantexa £175m, 10-year deal for AI fraud detection
HMRC has signed a £175m, 10-year partnership with UK AI firm Quantexa to unify fragmented tax data and target large-scale VAT and payroll fraud at national scale.
Argyll launches UK sovereign AI inference cloud with SambaNova
Argyll Data Development has launched a UK sovereign AI inference cloud built with SambaNova for defence, healthcare and finance customers needing UK jurisdiction.
Kendall: failing to invest in AI would leave UK 'at its mercy and whim'
The UK science secretary, speaking at RUSI, framed AI as a sovereignty issue and pledged to work with 'middle power nations' on joint investment and security.
UK government opens £80m procurement against £500m sovereign AI fund
DSIT opens £80m procurement round against the £500m sovereign AI capability fund, with contracts of up to £5m each and bidders keeping their IP.
Sovereign AI Fund names Callosum as first equity stake
UK government takes a shareholding in AI chip-orchestration startup Callosum and opens compute access to six firms under the £500m Sovereign AI Fund.
UK to launch £500m Sovereign AI Fund backing homegrown champions
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall unveils £500m state-backed VC unit combining capital, supercomputer access and procurement routes for UK AI firms.
UK Courts Anthropic to Expand London Base After Trump Clash
Starmer's government is pitching office expansion and a possible dual listing to Anthropic as the £300bn AI lab feuds with the US defence department.
UK sovereign AI fund launches with £500m for domestic computing
Government-backed fund formally launches in April to build domestic AI computing infrastructure, reduce reliance on foreign hyperscalers, and support UK tech sovereignty.
OpenAI Outlines Approach to Localising AI for Countries
OpenAI details how its 'OpenAI for Countries' programme adapts ChatGPT for local languages, laws, and cultural norms while maintaining global safety standards.