James Wise

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This is my third update on our progress at Sovereign AI.

This week Quantum Systems announced a $1.2 billion Series D, valuing the company at around $8 billion.

This is an op-ed I wrote for The Times, published on May 10th 2026 Almost every conversation about artificial intelligence in this country starts in the wrong place.

This is my second quarterly update on our progress and goals at Sovereign AI, I'm now just under 6 months into the role.

We're delighted to announce SAP's intent to acquire our portfolio company, Prior Labs, in one of the largest M&A outcomes in German technology history.

We launched the Sovereign AI fund today, after four months of work at the heart of Government turning an idea into a one-of-a-kind venture fund.

There are just two companies, Abbott and Dexcom, that dominate the $12 billion continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) market.

Since my appointment a little under 3 months ago, the Sovereign AI Unit has been working hard to establish its structure, team and a unique offer to founders, while continuing the day-to-day work of supporting our most successful British-based AI companie…

Today GoCardless announced that they have joined Mollie, creating one of the largest European financial services companies.

Following the announcement from the Secretary of State for DSIT today, I am excited to start as the Chair of the Government's new Sovereign AI Unit.

Since announcing our seed investment into Convergence under 9 months ago, Marvin, Andy and team have been executing at lightning speed.

Today we’ve announced our latest investment - backing Quantum Systems $160M round as the lead investor from Balderton’s growth fund.

The founder of Prior Labs, Frank Hutter, changed the field of data science once with his work on AutoML, which automated the end-to-end process of building machine learning models He and his team are back to do it again with TabPFN, the most performant ta…

Humans are a tool-using species.