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Sovereign AI. Launching Tonight. 🇬🇧

Every technological revolution starts with a breakthrough in materials. Today, we're excited to announce Sovereign AI's investment in @cusp_ai as part of its $450M Series B. @cusp_ai is building frontier AI models to dramatically accelerate materials discovery, compressing decades of scientific experimentation into years. If successful, it has the potential to transform how innovation happens across industries, unlocking breakthroughs that simply aren't possible today. This is the level of ambition we're backing: founded in Cambridge, built in the UK, with the potential for global impact. We're proud to partner with @ac_edwards_1, @wellingmax and the entire CuspAI team as they build the future of materials discovery. Read more below.

Introducing CuspAI’s AI Materials Foundry. We’re launching a global network to fundamentally accelerate how we discover and design the physical building blocks of our world.

MANCHESTER. CARDIFF. GLASGOW. NEWCASTLE. Since launching Sovereign AI, one priority has been clear: we need to build deep relationships with the people shaping the future of British AI - wherever they are. The UK’s AI opportunity cannot be concentrated in one city or one ecosystem. Some of the most ambitious founders and most exciting startups are being built across the country. Understanding that opportunity means showing up, listening, and building relationships face-to-face. That is why we went on tour. Since May, our investment team has been travelling right across the UK to embed ourselves in ecosystems, meet founders, connect with investors and researchers, and understand the unique strengths that each part of the country brings to the UK’s AI landscape. In that time, we’ve held events in Newcastle, Glasgow, Cardiff and Manchester - meeting with hundreds of ambitious founders along the way. Going forward, we’ll continue travelling across the country, meeting the people building the future of AI and investing in the relationships that will shape the next generation of UK technology companies. And keep your eyes peeled… 👀 We’ll be announcing another stop on the UK Tour next week…

Almost every organisation on Earth is paying for the privilege to hand over its IP to someone else's AI. We just closed a $50M Series A, led by @NEA, to build the alternative from right here in London: every model, agent and workload sealed in its own enclave, on infrastructure you control, with keys only you hold. You can't be sovereign on someone else's stack. Build your own with Valarian.

To mark the launch of @UKSovereignAI’s new substack, my thoughts on why the next 24 months are critical, both for AI and Britain’s place in the world, and how we build true sovereignty. Subscribe and join the conversation..

🚨Sovereign AI Substack. 🚨 We've joined Substack. We’ll use it to share longer-form thinking on British AI, sovereignty, and the opportunities this technology presents for the UK. In the months ahead, we’ll be publishing perspectives from across the ecosystem - from founders, our growing portfolio of British startups, and leaders in industry. We're pleased to kick off with a guest post from our Secretary of State, @leicesterliz MP, reflecting on why the next 24 months will be critical for Britain's AI future, and what it will take to build true AI sovereignty. Subscribe and join the conversation.

On Tuesday, we held the official Sovereign AI North West launch in Manchester.🐝🇬🇧 It was brilliant to have 100+ local founders, investors, academics, researchers, and ecosystem leaders in the room. If Britain is going to build the next generation of globally significant AI companies, it needs this kind of collaboration across the UK’s entire ecosystem. Our Chair, @Jameswise, set out why this moment matters so much. AI is this generation's defining technology, and the UK starts from a position of real strength: world-class research, some early successes and increasing sovereign capabilities. However, now is the time to turn those strengths into globally significant companies that benefit each corner of the UK. James also spoke about why his home town of Manchester and the North West are such important parts of that story. While the City has an extraordinary history of technological firsts, its real advantage lies in the ambition and entrepreneurial mindset that continues to drive innovation across the region today. Rather than dwell on the past (we've all been to Quarry Bank Mill enough times now! ), Manchester's foundations at the frontier of chemistry, advanced materials and automated manufacturing make it the perfect launch pad for a new generation of future industries. This is why our UK tour has been so important for us. Great founders are building startups in every corner of the country, and each region has its own strengths. If we're serious about backing Britain's AI future, we need to be listening to our regional ecosystems, building long-term partnerships, and meeting founders face-to-face, wherever they are.

@aeronlaffere @Jameswise 🇬🇧

Anglofuturism interviewed @Jameswise, Chair of the government's Sovereign AI Unit. 00:01:57 - Navigating AI from within government in Britain 00:11:30 - Why full-stack AI isn't the goal of sovereignty 00:24:59 - Are we investing enough in Britain's AI future? 00:33:19 - Overcoming capital constraints for British AI innovation 00:41:58 - How to leverage Britain's unique advantage in healthcare 01:10:52 - Britain needs an entrepreneurial culture shift You can find more Anglofuturism on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Substack.

Everything is downstream of culture. Enjoyed chatting with the Anglofuturism team on how we build on Britain’s rich heritage of scientific rigour & entrepreneurial zeal. We cover everything from: - the 50 shades of sovereignty when it comes to AI - what we can learn from Nightingale and Brunel - dealing with the doomsters and ‘Steve Bray’s’ of AI - why the NHS really could be the greatest health system in the world Warning - this broadcast contains reasons for British optimism, consume at your own risk.

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The End of AI's "One Chip to Rule them All" Era? In the latest episode of the Sovereign AI Podcast, Will Bushby sits down with @DanAkarca, CEO and Co-Founder of @CallosumAI, Sovereign AI's first investment. Dan shares the story behind Callosum's founding, from meeting co-founder @achterbrain during their PhDs at Cambridge to building a company around a contrarian belief: that the future of AI won't be powered by a single model, a single chip, or a single architecture.

At @CallosumAI we are aggressively scaling up hiring, in our London office 🇬🇧 We are building a more pluralistic vision of AI: co-evolving diverse chips and new architectures for the next generation of intelligence, that is economically viable at scale. We've opened roles across our inference engineering and heterogeneous infra teams. We want the most ambitious & exceptional people to join us. If you want to do the work of your life, would love to talk! 👇

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We're doubling compute access for the UK's most ambitious AI startups. The response since launch has been remarkable. In just three months, we have received more than 200 applications requesting over 67 million GPU hours. Founders here are building frontier AI models, scientific discovery platforms, next-generation compute infrastructure, cybersecurity technologies, drug discovery tools, and other innovations with the potential to shape the next decade of economic growth and national capability. If Britain wants to be an AI maker, not an AI taker, we need to back our most promising startups with the compute they need to build at the frontier. Today's announcement at @LDNTechWeek does exactly that.