UK AI industry sees 'Cambrian explosion' as 4000-person DeepMind spills talent and mega rounds
latticecut · x · 2026-10-12
Steve Crossan argues the UK AI industry is in a Cambrian explosion: DeepMind alone has 4000+ people seeding a generation of founders; stealth startups like Ineffable Intelligence and Callosum are raising very large early rounds, showing capital is no longer a blocker; British Business Bank and Sovereign AI are stepping in. PolyAI, Odyssey, ElevenLabs, Granola and Wayve have reached global scale, with AI+Bio/Chem a dominant sector building on AlphaFold's legacy, backed by a far stronger angel/VC ecosystem than a decade ago.
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