Adopt or be damned
Plus a key government tech adviser leaves.
Welcome to Wednesday and happy Earth Day.
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 Today 📆
Events: The AWS Summit takes place at Excel London. The company has published research this morning on AI adoption in the UK (more below). The Lib Dems launch a 'Liberal Vision for AI' at an event at The Shard this evening. The party's tech spokesperson Victoria Collins will be on a panel along with peer Tim Clement-Jones, Professor Gina Neff and Tim Flagg from UKAI.
In Glasgow: Security minister Dan Jarvis will tell the CyberUK conference in Glasgow today that AI companies should work with the government on the "generational endeavour" of making sure the technology is used to protect critical networks from attackers.
In Westminster: Bills continue their back and forth with the government in a bind over how to get the Children's Wellbeing Bill through the Lords when there is so much support for a social media ban. That, and the Crime and Policing Bill, are both in the Commons today. MPs on the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee quiz incoming UKRI chair Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz. The Business and Trade sub-Committee opens an inquiry into the country's economic security, looking at critical minerals.
In today's edition for paid subscribers:
🇬🇧 The UK's AI Adoption Summit is scheduled for June — the latest AWS research has some tips.
🤝 One of the tech secretary's key advisers leaves
⚠️ The Iran War has increased the UK's need to build sovereign tech capabilities