Alan Turing Institute wants to build a UK AI model from scratch and make it free
The UK's Council for Science and Technology has advised the government to back the Alan Turing Institute's proposal to build a sovereign British AI model from scratch and release it free to the public, describing it as national infrastructure. The council also recommends an AI Sovereignty Plan and trials using national AI computing capacity. It matters because it marks the UK's most concrete push yet toward AI sovereignty — reducing dependence on foreign frontier models for public services, research and startups.
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- Hacker News (AI)2026-10-21 16:17