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Defence, AI and Policy #Exeter #Devon

[JB @jbinexe]

My take on defining #sovereignty following the @UKParliament SITC report. 3 questions every organisation must to ask itself https://t.co/rkfCwqzcGx

[JB @jbinexe]

Pleasure to chat @mikebutcher at @WorldSummitAI

[Valarian @Valarian]

Don't replicate, add value.

Our VP Strategic Markets at the World Summit AI with @mikebutcher and @Pathfounders, discussing the role Europe should play in the AI race.

[Valarian @Valarian]

Don't replicate, add value.

Our VP Strategic Markets at the World Summit AI with @mikebutcher and @Pathfounders, discussing the role Europe should play in the AI race.

[Valarian @Valarian]

We've partnered with @perplexity_ai to bring Perplexity Computer inside your compute boundary.

ACRA runs it on your infrastructure and enforces which data, tools and networks each workload can access.

You choose the open-weight model, such as Nemotron, GLM, Kimi, DeepSeek-R1 or Qwen, then connect the documents and systems each task needs. Your data stays where it already lives.

[JB @jbinexe]

@Valarian @perplexity_ai 🔥

[Max Buchan @max_buchan]

The digital sovereignty debate has always assumed a trade-off: to keep control of your systems, you have to use worse tools.

That's a trade-off we don't have to accept. And one we must never accept in healthcare.

@Valarian and @RandoxOfficial are going to show everyone in the UK and abroad that organisations can have both control AND capability. You can run best-in-the-world models inside your compute boundary and stay in control of your data.

Don’t rent your intelligence, own it.

[Valarian @Valarian]

AI Security is the next frontier.

Agents must be contained, data must be secured in zero-trust environments.

This isn't a choice. This is now a baseline necessity.

[JB @jbinexe]

@RyanRadloff @Valarian @RyanRadloff love it

[Ryan Radloff @RyanRadloff]

My learnings & opinions on the status of Enterprise Ai - formed from talking to 250+ @valarian customers & prospects in Q3 this year. https://t.co/66dreztwnu

[Max Buchan @max_buchan]

Wrong.

You said a British alternative would “*obviously* not work”

Worse, you said even _searching_ for an alternative is a "dreadful idea".

You automatically assumed Britain can't build.

We can. We must. Britain will.

[Max Buchan @max_buchan]

This is the reason I almost moved to the US to build, the assumption by so many here is it'll be crap if it's built in the UK.

Totally wrong.

Britain built the modern world. We will do so again.

[JB @jbinexe]

@Valarian @bfbsesports Great to represent

[JB @jbinexe]

Delighted to support @bfbsesports final last week - amazing talent on display, demonstrating the skills Defence needs now @Valarian @ForcesNews

[Valarian @Valarian]

"I spent 12 years in the Army working in intelligence and the biggest problem I found was..."

Jonnie Beddall, our VP Strategic Markets, at @bfbsesports Pro League Finale on why he joined Valarian

[Valarian @Valarian]

"I spent 12 years in the Army working in intelligence and the biggest problem I found was..."

Jonnie Beddall, our VP Strategic Markets, at @bfbsesports Pro League Finale on why he joined Valarian

[Valarian @Valarian]

We are proud to have signed the Armed Forces Covenant.

It is crucial that those who serve or have served in the Armed Forces, their families, and the bereaved, should be treated with fairness and respect.

First step of many.

[Max Buchan @max_buchan]

Whitehall is right to cost the outage. Chi Onwurah is also right that an assessment is not a plan, and that "acceptable dependency" needs a definition.

I would define it this way: it is advantageous for the UK to use the best technology available, however, it is unacceptable for critical national infrastructure to be dependent on a single foreign system.

As more programmes leverage AI, we must build infrastructure that gives the UK optionality and control over the intelligence layer.

Optionality is the ability to treat the model as a component. The best system available today should be usable; the best system available next year should be adoptible without tearing up the programmes, the workflows, and the institutional knowledge already built on top. A department that can switch between frontier and open-weight models can keep the programme running when any one of them is withdrawn.

Control means your data, intellectual property, and ideas remain yours even while the model is working on them. That does not come from a contract, or from a model's own refusals. It comes from running intelligence in an environment the organisation governs: who may reach what, under whose keys, with no third party able to read the content, including the firm that supplied the infrastructure. The model can change, and you retain control.

[JB @jbinexe]

@max_buchan of @Valarian fame in SoTA Letters on the Six Tests of Digital Sovereignty @sotalikesfuture here https://t.co/9kJFY5NbvN

[London Stock Exchange @LSEplc]

Congrats to @ValarianHQ on its $50M Series A, led by @NEA. 🎉

The funding will accelerate the rollout of sovereign AI infrastructure, integrating frontier AI while protecting intellectual property, secrets and data from 3rd parties.

[JB @jbinexe]

@valarian Love it

[Valarian @Valarian]

harness :: model
car :: engine

[Valarian @Valarian]

You can now connect your own OpenAI or Anthropic account, and switch between external and local models with ease.