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CloudNC, a London company, has raised $20M (about £15M) to expand CAM Assist, software that uses AI to automate one of manufacturing's most skilled and time-consuming jobs: programming the toolpaths a CNC machine follows to cut a part. The round was led by Nimble Ventures, with Entrepreneur First and Lockheed Martin's venture fund among the backers.
Demis Hassabis is moving from chief executive of Google DeepMind to its chair, also becoming Alphabet's chief scientist, while Koray Kavukcuoglu takes over running the lab day-to-day. For the UK's most important AI research institution, the change is reassuring in one direction and worth watching in another.
In the machinery-of-government changes that followed Andy Burnham becoming prime minister in July, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology was abolished and responsibility for AI moved to the Cabinet Office — with Kanishka Narayan appointed the UK's first Minister for AI to attend Cabinet. A look at what the reshuffle means for UK AI.
Embedd, a London startup, has raised £2M ($2.7M) in a pre-seed round led by Seedcamp to automate one of the most tedious jobs in building intelligent machines: writing the code that lets software talk to a chip. It models chips as digital twins and uses AI agents to generate the integration code, which it says is up to six times faster than doing it by hand.
Prevalent AI, a London company founded by GCHQ alumni, has raised its first outside capital — a $22M (about £16M) growth round led by Integrity Growth Partners — nine years after it started and while already profitable. It sells a "data fabric" that turns messy enterprise data into a knowledge graph for security teams and AI agents.
Growth London
Builds domain-specific AI for analysing, generating and negotiating contracts, used by legal and compliance teams. Founded in Cambridge and headquartered in London.
Growth London
Builds enterprise voice assistants that handle customer-service phone calls in natural conversation. Headquartered in London, having spun out of Cambridge research.
Growth London
Builds decision-intelligence software that connects scattered data into a single view for fraud detection, anti-money-laundering and financial-crime analytics. Headquartered in London.
Growth London
Builds an AI video-generation platform that turns text into videos using synthetic avatars and voices, aimed at enterprise training and internal communications. Headquartered in London, having started as a UCL spinout.
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