Tim Bradshaw

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FT News Briefing · London’s push for AI sovereignty · 6 Jul 2026 podcast

And so what's also striking, I guess, for the UK as a whole is that although the UK has produced Arm, the chip designer, and, you know, a number of other big tech companies over the years, none of them have become the kind of trillion dollar businesses that we've now got more than a dozen of.

in the US.

And so that then crystallized even further on a Friday night last month when the US Department of Commerce rang up Anthropic and said, hey, you have 90 minutes to turn off all foreign access to your most advanced models.

And that was really a kind of warning shot for what could happen in the

Any foreign economy is reliant on American AI models, and they might suddenly be turned off overnight.

Well, there's a few things going on in both the government level and the private sector.

And the government has put forward some hundreds of millions of pounds for its sovereign AI fund, which is an effort to back what...

the investors and ministers involved in that project see as the kind of next wave of AI.

So that includes some different types of AI systems that are taking a different approach to the large language models that underpin ChatGPT or Gemini or Claude.

But those are all quite sort of long term, even blue sky bets.

And at the same time, there are a handful of companies in London that are showing that Britain can still produce meaningful multi-billion dollar valuation AI startups.

There's companies like Eleven Labs, which does audio AI, Wave, which does self-driving cars.

And then most recently, a couple of startups that were founded in part by people who had recently left DeepMind, Ineffable Intelligence and Recursive Superintelligence.

And they have been able to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for startups.

effectively a team and an idea quite early in their life cycle.

And so a combination of government support for startups, coupled with the fact that there are researchers leaving DeepMind and choosing to stay in London finally, and raising real capital, that's what's really kind of boring people's spirits for the UK's AI scene right now.

But it's taken a long time to get here.

Yeah.

I mean, I think the whole sort of King's Cross area is a microcosm of this.

So King's Cross is where DeepMind is based and has been since it started.

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