The AI jobs story nobody is telling
Plus a plan to build a UK LLM from scratch.
Good morning, I'm writing this while cafe-hopping around the City.
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 📆
Inquiry opening: MPs on the Business and Trade Committee open a wide-ranging inquiry on AI. They'll take evidence at 2pm from academics Wendy Hall and Neil Lawrence, followed by Microsoft's Hugh Milward and Matthew Evans from techUK.
Pick one: MPs will vote on Lords amendments to the Crime and Policing Bill this afternoon, including rival ones from the government and Beeban Kidron on how to regulate AI chatbots. They'll also be voting on a government amendment to make tech executives criminally liable if their platforms fail to remove intimate images.
Disinfo day: The Foreign Affairs Committee will quiz AI minister Kanishka Narayan at 10:30am on the government's response to hostile states using disinformation. Questions will cover the development of tools to identify deepfakes and the tech's department's dealings with social media companies over foreign disinfo.
Where does the copyright debate leave AI adoption and data centres? Public First's Neil Ross talks to a techUK audience today about a report commissioned by Microsoft which argued for text and data mining exemptions.
In today's edition for paid subscribers:
👍 There is a good news story to tell on AI and jobs. Will anyone do it?
✒️ Two UK tech companies sign a deal to create a UK LLM from scratch.