Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What Is the Sovereign AI Unit? The Sovereign AI Unit is a £500 million government investment vehicle housed within DSIT — the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. It sits at the intersection of industrial policy and venture capital: rather than distributing grants, it takes equity stakes in commercial AI startups, targets a financial return for taxpayers, and bundles that capital with access to national supercomputing infrastructure and an accelerated immigration route for overseas AI talent. The launch at Wayve's King's Cross office was deliberate signalling. Wayve, the autonomous-driving AI company that raised one of the largest Series B rounds in European AI history, is exactly the kind of deep-tech company the fund is designed to produce more of. Liz Kendall used the…
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