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Laura Gilbert on No.10, open source and AI fears.
Happy Friday, wishing you all excellent weekends.
What do you get when British innovation meets Nvidia’s top open source models? Meet Jupiter — a UK LLM, developed by London startup Locai Labs. It's built by post-training on Nvidia’s Nemotron 3 models to give it British language, knowledge and humour. There is even a Welsh version. All its training data is public and there is no Chinese open source in sight. Jupiter gives UK organisations a new sovereign reasoning model with frontier performance that can be deployed on-premises or on the cloud — and it’s trained for maximum performance on agentic tasks.
Happening Next Week 📆
The Fabian Society and Bright Blue host the Tech Summit in King's Cross on Monday. It brings together Labour and Conservative politicians to talk about AI and work, regulation, capital and democracy.
On Tuesday lunchtime tech secretary Liz Kendall will give a "landmark" speech on AI and Britain's place in the world.
In Parliament: The Children's Wellbeing Bill is back in the Lords on Monday for the latest ping-pong with the Commons over a social media ban for under-16s. The Education Committee also continues its inquiry Tuesday into social media and screen time. Dan Aldridge has a Westminster Hall Debate on the UK-India Technology-Security Initiative.
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