Tag: frontier

  • Cosine secures industry backing for Britain’s first sovereign frontier model

    Cosine, the British AI company selected by the UK Government as part of its Sovereign AI initiative, today announced that it has brought together a coalition of leading UK institutions to co-design Lumen Sovereign, which it describes as Britain’s first sovereign frontier AI model. Founded in 2023 in London, Cosine is a British sovereign AI read more

    Cosine secures industry backing for Britain’s first sovereign frontier model
  • Twin Prime lands $10M pre-seed to build frontier AI models for defence and security

    Frontier AI lab for defence and security Twin Prime has raised have $10 million in pre-seed funding led by Expeditions, with additional investment from American and European VCs, Theon, family offices, and angels from within Palantir, Anduril, Quorum, and more. Twin Prime is developing AI models that natively reason on data from a large number read more

    Twin Prime lands M pre-seed to build frontier AI models for defence and security
  • SPRIND launches €125M Next Frontier AI challenge to back new AI paradigms in Europe

    SPRIND has launched the Next Frontier AI challenge, inviting up to ten teams from across Europe to develop new approaches that expand current paradigms in artificial intelligence. The selected teams will receive seed funding from SPRIND totalling €125 million. To date, the most capable AI models have come almost exclusively from the US and China. read more

    SPRIND launches €125M Next Frontier AI challenge to back new AI paradigms in Europe
  • The eastern frontier is Europe's new critical deeptech engine

    Today, Coinvest Capital, the NATO Innovation Fund (NIF), Depo Ventures, BSV Ventures, Balnord, and New North Ventures — six VC funds actively investing in dual-use and defence — together with market-intelligence platform Dealroom, unveil the inaugural Tough Tech by the Tough Ten report, The report is the first comprehensive mapping of tough-tech ecosystems spanning mission-critical read more

    The eastern frontier is Europe's new critical deeptech engine