Last night in Camden
What the Sovereign AI Unit wants.
Good morning, I'm typing away on a late train back from the Sovereign AI Unit's launch. The last time I had a drink in Camden (almost 20 years ago) I got an eyebrow piercing. This time it was only one glass and no piercings, but still fun.
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 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 Today 📆
See you at 10: Join our online panel and Q&A at 10am for more on the Sovereign AI Unit and its launch event last night.
Open for business: The Startup Coalition released a report this morning covering how open source has moved from niche policy to a geo-strategic play. It has a host of recommendations for government from funding to procurement.
In today's edition for paid subscribers:
🚗 What we learned at the Sovereign AI Unit's launch last night
✋ The Lords kill off rival chatbot regulation plans
☺️ A government cybersecurity expert played down panic about Claude Mythos