PA Consulting and Cosine collaborate to advance sovereign AI for critical sectors
Tags
PA Consulting (PA), a Jacobs company, is joining a coalition led by London-based Artificial Intelligence (AI) lab Cosine to co-design Lumen Sovereign, the UK’s first fully sovereign frontier AI model for highly regulated and nationally important sectors.
The collaboration brings together PA, Cosine and other industry leaders to help shape the UK’s sovereign AI capability. One of the first priorities is developing a nuclear-trained large language model for the UK’s civil and defence nuclear sectors, designed to help organisations address important challenges including skills and capability gaps, retaining critical expertise, and making decades of nuclear knowledge more accessible.
The coalition aims to support the adoption of sovereign AI applications across other highly regulated sectors, including government, defence, financial services, healthcare, and critical national infrastructure.
This strategic initiative aligns with the UK government’s growing focus on sovereign AI as artificial intelligence becomes increasingly important to national security, economic resilience and critical infrastructure. UK government initiatives, including the Sovereign AI programme and new AI Hardware Plan, are intended to strengthen domestic AI capability and resilience and expand national compute capability.
AI sovereignty is becoming increasingly important for organisations operating in critical national infrastructure. The UK has an opportunity to lead in applying trusted, secure and practical AI to some of its most complex national challenges. By working with Cosine, we want to make sovereign AI a practical capability for critical sectors – starting with applications that build on PA’s work with Sellafield and Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.”
The case for a nuclear-specific large language model is strong. Civil nuclear organisations need AI systems that understand the language of the sector, can support highly specialised workflows and can be deployed in ways that align with operational and governance requirements. PA Consulting brings exactly the kind of sector insight needed to build something genuinely useful for the industry. Together, we want to explore how a focused, high-performance Large Language Model (LLM) can support civil nuclear organisations with practical applications across knowledge management, engineering support and operational delivery.”
The collaboration builds on PA’s work helping organisations apply AI responsibly and effectively in complex, regulated environments, while supporting the growth of the UK’s AI ecosystem of talent and innovative new British tech companies. PA combines deep sector expertise with data, digital and AI capabilities to help organisations move from experimentation to operational deployment.
This builds on PA and Jacobs’ work with Sellafield and Nuclear Decommissioning Authority to pioneer DANI, the nuclear decommissioning industry’s first AI assistant. DANI demonstrates how AI can help nuclear organisations manage complex knowledge, support safety-critical activities and provide engineers faster access to critical information.
The nuclear sector holds decades of specialist information, embedded in very experienced people, technical records, and complex systems. Sovereign AI offers a significant opportunity to preserve this information, make it easier to access and support better decisions across the nuclear enterprise. Working together, this initiative represents an important step in developing secure, trusted AI designed around the needs, standards, and responsibilities of the UK nuclear sector.”
Explore more
