Joséphine Kant

I’m not exaggerating when I say that within minutes of meeting Suzanne Ashman, I knew we had to hire her at Sovereign AI.

We ran a thorough search for our new Managing Partner, with well over 100 candidates, and she stood out at every stage.

Sharp judgement and strategic vision are rare to find.

Finding those qualities alongside founder empathy and a low-ego, collaborative way of working is rarer still.

Suzanne is all of it.

After a decade backing exceptional founders at LocalGlobe, she’s joining us on our mission to back the UK’s best AI companies with the strength of the UK government.

Welcome to the team, Suzanne!

Someone asked me over the weekend what the number on my hat meant.

I just love that OLIX made merch that serves as a litmus test. You either know or you don’t (thankfully I’ve worked in photonics before).

Today, at Sovereign AI, we are announcing our investment in OLIX, ahead of their tape out later this year. They are on track to become one of the most important companies in AI infrastructure not just in Britain, but in the world.

I don’t say this often: James Dacombe is one of the best founders I’ve ever met. And the team around him backs that up (Stevan Boljevic, Tom Elvidge, Holly Burns, Sven Marian Albrecht, Nick McKeown and many more I’ve yet to meet).

Congrats, team OLIX 💡

What do you do when one of the most brilliant minds in AI - and one of the kindest people you've ever met - bets everything on a contrarian path to superintelligence?

You bet with him.

Sovereign AI is proud to back David Silver's new venture, Ineffable Intelligence.

Dave, I know you're not on social media but it is an honour to support you, Heather Gorham, and the entire Ineffable Intelligence team. 🇬🇧

A country's long-term position in AI will not be decided by who wins this week's argument.

It will be decided by who builds this decade's companies.

Today the UK Sovereign AI Fund is investing in one of them.

We are proud to back Isomorphic Labs, the London-headquartered, DeepMind-born AI drug design company led by Sir Demis Hassabis and Max Jaderberg.

Our investment is part of Isomorphic's $2.1B Series B led by Thrive Capital, alongside Alphabet, GV (Google Ventures) Tom Hulme, MGX, Temasek and CapitalG.

A British-built company committed to solving humanity's hardest problems - here.

This is what we were built for.