Cosine Lumen Sovereign UK frontier AI coalition

Cosine announced the formation of an industry coalition to co-design Lumen Sovereign, Britain's first fully sovereign frontier AI model. The coalition includes BAE Systems, Babcock International Group, BT, Era4, HSBC, Leonardo, Lloyds Banking Group, LSEG, NatWest Group, PwC, Telefónica Tech UK&I, Thales UK and The Alan Turing Institute. The project is backed by the UK Government's £500m Sovereign AI programme. Lumen Sovereign will be trained entirely on UK soil using Isambard-AI, one of Europe's most powerful supercomputers, with zero dependence on foreign infrastructure. Cosine and the coalition signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a foundational framework for the co-definition of Lumen Sovereign's use-case parameters, rigorous security protocols and necessary governance standards. The agreement supports delivery of a sovereign frontier capability. To deliver Lumen Sovereign by late 2026, Cosine is upcycling a known-good Mixture-of-Experts architecture to a larger parameter count using its allocation of UK sovereign compute. The focus includes continual pre-training and expert expansion on the 256k-context sparse MoE architecture targeting a long-horizon agentic coding model within a 500,000 GH200 GPU-hour budget. Training dedicates approximately one-third of the total compute time to complex software engineering problems. The remaining two-thirds focus on cybersecurity adversarial testing, KYC and AML alert investigations and clinical trial coordination. Lumen Sovereign will be designed for deployment entirely within a customer's own infrastructure, including fully air-gapped environments, with no external data transfer required.