Britain's Biggest Banks, Defence Primes, and Telecoms Are Betting on a Three-Year-Old Startup to End Their Dependence on American AI

Cosine builds UK's first sovereign frontier AI model

Cosine, a British sovereign AI frontier lab founded in London in 2023 and selected by the UK government as part of its sovereign AI initiative, has unveiled a coalition of major UK institutions to co-design Lumen Sovereign, the country’s first sovereign frontier AI model. The coalition includes some of Britain’s most prominent organisations, with Babcock International Group, BT, Lloyds Banking Group, LSEG, NatWest Group, PwC, Thales UK, Leonardo…

Britain's biggest banks, defence primes, and telecoms are betting on a three-year-old startup to end their dependence on American AI

Cosine, the UK government-backed AI startup, has assembled a coalition of major British institutions, including BT, Babcock International Group, Lloyds Banking Group, LSEG, NatWest Group, PwC, Thales UK, and Telefónica Tech UK&I, to co-design Lumen Sovereign, a frontier AI model to be trained entirely on British soil. The model will run on Isambard-AI, one of Europe’s most powerful supercomputers, using compute awarded through the UK government’…

UK industry giants join forces to develop sovereign frontier AI model on Isambard-AI

Cosine has partnered with major UK institutions to develop Lumen Sovereign, a frontier AI model trained entirely in the UK on Isambard-AI. The post UK industry giants join forces to develop sovereign frontier AI model on Isambard-AI appeared first on Innovation News Network.

Britain’s first sovereign AI model secures blue-chip backing as Starmer unveils £400m plan

Sir Keir Starmer’s push to build sovereign British AI capability has won backing from some of the country’s biggest companies, with BT, HSBC, Lloyds, Natwest and BAE Systems joining plans to develop Britain’s first sovereign frontier AI model. British AI startup Cosine unveiled a coalition of major banks, defence contractors and infrastructure firms who had signed up to help design “Lumen Sovereign”, a UK-built frontier model that will be traine…