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BT gets in on sovereign frontier AI as gov pitches UK as ‘AI maker, not taker’

2026-06-15T15:17:00

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Source: NVIDIA

BT enters the sovereign AI breach as one of a cohort supporting Cosine’s Lumen Sovereign project to build and train a frontier AI model exclusively on UK soil. Government gets in on the action by providing crucial sovereign compute resource, along with a wave of parallel sovereign AI announcements…

This article includes:

  • Themes: Artificial intelligence (AI); AI sovereignty; Cybersecurity; Data sovereignty; Digital infrastructure; Frontier models; Public-private collaboration; Telecommunications strategy.
  • Events: AI Adoption Summit; London Tech Week 2026.
  • People: Alistair Pullen; Ben Jarvis; Chris Keone; Yang Li.
  • Geographic: United Kingdom (UK).
  • Organisations: Anthropic; BAE Systems; Babcock International Group; BT; Cosine; Department of Science Innovation and Technology (DSIT); HSBC; Isambard-AI; Leonardo; Lloyds Banking Group; London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG); NatWest Group; OpenAI; PwC; Telefónica Tech UK&I; The Alan Turing Institute; Thales UK; University of Bristol.

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