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Machine Learning Street Talk · Monday, July 13, 2026

UK to Develop Sovereign AI with Government Backing and Supercomputer Access

Cosine AI has received government backing to build the UK's first sovereign AI, leveraging compute resources from the Izzimbad supercomputer. This initiative aims to position the UK at the forefront of AI development.

personAlistair PullencompanyCosine AI

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we have obtained the mandate to build um the UK's first sort of sovereign LLM.
we have obtained the mandate to build um the UK's first sovereign AI um, which is a much more ambitious vision and, uh, something which is on a scale much larger than we've done before, but it's very exciting to be working on it.
Alistair Pullen
we were inducted into the um government's sovereign AI unit or backed by them, I should say.
Alistair Pullen
um That is something that they have put out to, you know, increase the number of sovereign AI initiatives, you know, companies that are that are being built in the UK.
Alistair Pullen
um we were inducted into the um government's sovereign AI unit or backed by them, I should say.
Alistair Pullen
um That is something that they have put out to, you know, increase the number of sovereign AI initiatives, you know, companies that are that are being built in the UK.
Alistair Pullen
Heard on Machine Learning Street Talk — “Why a Nation Can't Outsource Its Frontier AI - Alistair Pullen (Cosine AI), published Monday, July 13, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
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