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Doubleword is part of a $500 million sovereign AI fund established by the UK government.
Doubleword has raised over $26 million in funding from investors including Dawn Capital, Octopus Ventures, and Atomic.
Meryem Arik argues the current AI boom is not a speculative bubble because it is supported by record-breaking revenue growth from companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, and NVIDIA.
Uber exhausted its entire 12-month AI budget in the first four months of the year, by April, due to the high cost of AI adoption.
In Q1, London and the UK saw a record $5.8 billion in venture capital investment into AI startups.
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey has warned that AI usage in the UK may need to be rationed due to energy capacity constraints.
Meryem Arik warns that the UK will be forced to ration AI if the country does not focus on developing efficient inference technologies.
Doubleword is one of the first companies to be backed by the UK government's venture fund for domestic AI startups.
The current UK government is taking a hands-on, interventionist approach to backing strategically important AI companies, a departure from the typically hands-off approach of previous governments.
The UK government's current AI strategy aims to ensure that AI companies not only start in the UK but also stay and scale within the country.
The UK government has provided a compute allocation to Doubleword.
The UK government recently announced a £1.1 million fund to procure compute for building more supercomputers in the country.