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[Round 4, 30 Oct 2026] UK office: London chosen for first international office (cited May 2024); plans to enlarge London office and build research and engineering teams (July 2025) [Big tech Round 1, 30 Oct 2026] First international office opened in London in June 2023; about 200 London staff by April 2026. On 13 April 2026 it leased 88,500 sq ft at Jahn Court and the Brassworks Building, King's Cross, to open in 2027 as its first permanent UK campus with room for 544 staff; the file says OpenAI calls it its largest research centre outside the US (about 30 London frontier researchers now). Phoebe Thacker is Global Head of Data Research Programmes and London Site Lead. MoU with DSIT in 2025; Stargate UK with NVIDIA and Nscale announced September 2025 (Cobalt Park, North Tyneside); UK data-centre plans put on hold in April 2026, citing electricity costs and regulation. 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OpenAI said it would explore taking up to 8,000 GPUs in the first quarter of 2026, with the potential to scale to 31,000 over time, at sites including Cobalt Park in the North East AI Growth Zone. Its stated purpose was to let OpenAI's models run on UK computing power for uses where jurisdiction matters. On 9 April 2026 OpenAI paused the project, citing energy costs and regulation. The data-centre sites are recorded on the Data centres page. [Round 4, 30 Oct 2026] CLOUD & COMPUTE: Nscale, OpenAI and Nvidia platform to run OpenAI models on UK infrastructure; OpenAI to take up to 8,000 GPUs first, possibly about 31,000 later; sites include Cobalt Park. [Round 4, 30 Oct 2026] capacity; site: First phase: OpenAI to take up to 8,000 GPUs, possibly about 31,000 over time; sites include Cobalt Park in the North East AI Growth Zone [Big tech Round 1, 30 Oct 2026] Announced 16 September 2025 during the US State Visit, linking Nscale (re-registered as Nscale plc on 9 October 2026, per the file), NVIDIA (up to 60,000 Grace Blackwell Ultra GPUs in the UK), OpenAI and Microsoft. OpenAI paused the Cobalt Park build in April 2026 over power prices and regulation. 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OpenAI also said it would expand its London office. The memorandum is voluntary and not legally binding. Stargate UK (BIZ-BIG-002) followed in September 2025. [Round 4, 30 Oct 2026] date; scope: July 2025 (published 21 July 2025); to explore AI in justice, defence and security and education technology; ChatGPT already underpins tools in the government's \"Humphrey\" suite [Big tech Round 1, 30 Oct 2026] GP-11: UK–OpenAI MoU with DSIT exploring model deployment in Whitehall, security and sovereign infrastructure, signed 2025, active. 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[Round 4, 30 Oct 2026] UK office: London chosen for first international office (cited May 2024) [Big tech Round 1, 30 Oct 2026] London chosen for its first European office in 2023; London is the hub for EMEA North (UK, Ireland, Benelux, Nordics and Israel). Pip White joined in September 2025 as Head of UK, Ireland and Northern Europe; Chris Ciauri joined in September 2025 as Managing Director, International, based in the UK. After a February 2025 MoU with DSIT, it was selected on 27 January 2026 to build and pilot a Claude-based assistant for GOV.UK, starting with DWP's Find a Job service; it also works with the AI Security Institute on pre-deployment model testing. 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Cohere describes London as a hub for its engineering, research and commercial work, with chief executive Aidan Gomez and chief technology officer Phil Blunsom based in the UK. It signed a memorandum of understanding with the UK government in June 2025 (BIZ-BIG-007). On 15 June 2026 it announced a move to 100 New Oxford Street, nearly tripling its London office space. 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The GOV.UK page was found in search in this session but not re-opened, so its date and wording rest on Cohere's own mention and the earlier pass. 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Companies House shows MISTRAL AI UK LTD as Active (checked 31 Oct 2026).", "one_line": "The UK company of the French developer of large language models, registered in the City of London.", "description": "Mistral AI, a French developer of large language models, lists Mistral AI Ltd (registration number 14894136) as its UK affiliate. Companies House shows the company as Mistral AI UK Ltd, incorporated on 25 May 2023, active, with its registered office at 11 Old Jewry, London, and a software development SIC code. The earlier pass relied on a business.gov.uk page saying London was Mistral's first international base; that page could not be opened in this session. 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In April 2024 it opened a Microsoft AI hub in London (BIZ-BIG-010). On 16 September 2025 it announced $30bn of UK investment from 2025 to 2028, of which $15bn is capital spending on cloud and AI infrastructure, including the UK's largest supercomputer, built with Nscale (BIZ-BIG-044). Microsoft says it has 6,000 UK employees in several sites. Darren Hardman is UK chief executive. Microsoft is also a partner in the South Wales AI Growth Zone. [Round 4, 30 Oct 2026] UK headcount: 6,000 employees across multiple UK sites and cities (September 2025) [Round 4, 30 Oct 2026] UK head: Darren Hardman, CEO of Microsoft UK (named June 2025; still described as UK CEO in June 2026) [Round 4, 30 Oct 2026] investment pledge (2023): £2.5bn ($3.2bn) over three years from 30 Nov 2023 for AI datacentres; 20,000+ GPUs by 2026; sites in London and Wales, possible northern England (Microsoft corrected the site wording on 1 May 2024; GOV.UK says \"London and Cardiff\") [Round 4, 30 Oct 2026] investment pledge (2025): $30bn (£22bn) for 2025–2028, half ($15bn) capital spending on UK cloud and AI infrastructure, half ongoing operations; announced 16 Sep 2025 [Round 4, 30 Oct 2026] government partnership: Pledged in Nov 2023 to work with the UK Government and AI Safety Institute on responsible AI [Round 4, 30 Oct 2026] skills: Says it has trained more than 1.5 million people in AI in the UK (January 2026); founding partner of AI Skills Boost [Round 6, 30 Oct 2026] key_facts: The £2.5bn of 2023-11-30 (DEAL-BIG-006) covers three years and \"more than 20,000 of the most advanced Graphics Processing Units (GPUs)\" by 2026, with sites in London and Cardiff and possible expansion into northern England [Big tech Round 1, 30 Oct 2026] November 2023: £2.5bn over 2024–2026 for AI data centres in London and Cardiff, more than 20,000 advanced GPUs by end-2026, and AI skills for 1 million people. September 2025: $30bn (£22bn) over 2025–2028, $15bn capital spending and $15bn UK operations. April 2026: Sovereign Private Cloud on Azure Local expanded, with in-country Microsoft 365 Copilot processing for the UK public sector. October 2026: withdrew from its anchor agreement with Nscale for the Loughton, Essex supercomputer after grid-connection delays. Clare Barclay is President, Enterprise and Industry, EMEA (formerly CEO, Microsoft UK); Darren Hardman is CEO, Microsoft UK; Jordan Hoffmann heads the Microsoft AI London hub. 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It is led by Jordan Hoffmann, who previously worked at Inflection and DeepMind in London. Microsoft said it would hire AI scientists and engineers for the hub. GOV.UK cited it in May 2024 among new AI investments in the UK. [Round 4, 30 Oct 2026] announced; head: Announced 7 April 2024 by Mustafa Suleyman; led by Jordan Hoffmann; works on language models and their infrastructure [Labs Round 7, 30 Oct 2026] Listed on Labs (Corporate research labs): (tile could be General-purpose AI models). 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Its first UK deployment launched in November 2025. On 8 June 2026 it announced about £1.7bn to build three more UK deployments, reaching 65 MW combined when fully ramped up in 2027; UK customers named include Revolut and Prima Mente. Its London hub houses EMEA commercial teams, industry teams and AI R&D. Site locations were not named on the pages opened. [Round 4, 30 Oct 2026] investment pledges: June 2025: initial £200m for a UK AI factory, two possible sites in South East England; June 2026: about £1.7bn more UK capacity, London commercial and AI R&D hub, deployment at Ark's Longcross Park [Round 6, 30 Oct 2026] sites: First UK deployment of NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra launched November 2025 in a facility in the London area; three more deployments announced 2026-06-08 [Round 6, 30 Oct 2026] capacity_mw: 65MW combined across the UK deployments when fully ramped up in 2027 [Round 6, 30 Oct 2026] customers_named: London Institute for Mathematical Sciences (2025-06-09); Basecamp Research and Prima Mente (2025-11-06); Revolut (2026-06-08) [Round 6, 30 Oct 2026] sites: Q2 2026 shareholder letter: more UK sites added to contracted capacity; group expects to end 2026 with 5GW of contracted power [Round 6, 30 Oct 2026] gpu_fleet: UK cluster of \"thousands\" of NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra (B300) GPUs, hosted in London; Nebius declined to name the facility [Round 6, 30 Oct 2026] key_facts: Ten-year lease of 22MW at Kao Data Harlow; Nebius's three new UK deployments to total 65MW when fully ramped in 2027 [Big tech Round 1, 30 Oct 2026] On 8 June 2026 (London Tech Week) Nebius committed about £1.7bn for NVIDIA-based AI infrastructure across four UK sites and a larger London commercial and AI R&D hub, reaching 65 MW in 2027, including an anchor tenancy at Ark Data Centres' Longcross Park, Surrey (Ark's £807m, 36 MW expansion of June 2026). The file says it hosts UK Sovereign AI Fund portfolio companies such as Prima Mente. (Big tech file, lines 82–84; no source link given.) [Cloud Round 1, 31 Oct 2026] The file says it runs Nebius AI Cloud 3.5, with agent features using Tavily, Eigen AI and Clarifai, and names Ravi Solanki as chief executive of Prima Mente. 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During the US state visit in September 2025 the government said Scale AI would invest £39m in the UK over the next two years. In June 2026 the government listed Scale AI in the King's Cross AI cluster. No Scale AI page was opened in this session. [Round 4, 30 Oct 2026] UK office; pledge: London chosen as first European HQ (May 2024); £39m over two years and quadrupling staff by end 2026 (Sept 2025) [Big tech Round 1, 30 Oct 2026] London chosen for its first European HQ in May 2024; during the September 2025 State Visit (with a £39m+ UK expansion) it pledged to quadruple UK engineering and AI-evaluation staff by 31 December 2026. 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Companies House shows X.AI London Ltd, incorporated 12 December 2024 with a registered address at 20 Air Street, London; its directors have all been US-resident xAI-linked appointees, the latest from 25 August 2026. Its company status and number were taken from the search listing; the company page itself was not opened. 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Faculty's own pre-acquisition record belongs on another page; this record covers the acquisition only.", "uk_status": "foreign_with_uk_base", "company": { "ch_number": "08873131", "registered_office": null, "incorporated": null, "legal_form": "ltd", "owner_or_acquirer": "Accenture plc", "headcount": "more than 400, 2026-03-16, Accenture newsroom", "ch_number_clean": "08873131", "from_round2": true, "companies_house_url": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08873131", "ch_note": null }, "place": { "text": "London (null)", "postcode": "EC1V 9BW", "lat": 51.525032, "lng": -0.091296, "region": "England: London", "admin_district": "Islington", "geocoded": "postcodes.io" }, "people": [ { "name": "Marc Warner", "role": "CEO and co-founder, Faculty; Chief Technology Officer, Accenture", "from": "2026-03-16", "source": "https://newsroom.accenture.com/news/2026/accenture-completes-acquisition-of-faculty" } ], "money": [], "site": null, "product": null, "dsit_domains": [ "AI implementation", "AI security and assurance" ], "sectors": [ "AI services", "consulting", "decision software" ], "confidence": "verified", "checked": "2026-10-29", "as_of": "2026-10-29", "applied": [ { "from": "Companies House check, 29 Oct 2026", "field": "company.ch_number", "text": "company.ch_number → 08873131; 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[Round 4, 30 Oct 2026] UK parent head: Leon Butler, Chief Executive of IBM UK and Ireland (June 2025) [Round 4, 30 Oct 2026] programme: IBM expanding SkillsBuild with free AI courses (June 2026); founding partner of AI Skills Boost [Labs Round 7, 30 Oct 2026] Listed on Labs (Corporate research labs) [Big tech Round 1, 30 Oct 2026] IBM (UK): sites in London, Hursley and Daresbury; runs the £210m Hartree National Centre for Digital Innovation with STFC at Daresbury (AI and quantum computing), Hursley software labs, watsonx, and a CCS public-sector MoU that ran to July 2026. (Big tech file, line 122; no source link given.) [Gemini gap Round 1, 31 Oct 2026] IBM's lab page gives the address as IBM United Kingdom Limited, Hursley Park, Winchester, i.e. the lab is part of IBM United Kingdom Limited rather than a separate company. 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[Round 4, 30 Oct 2026] investment pledge; headcount: £1.15bn over five years (14 Oct 2024) for UK AI development, data centres with Nvidia GPUs, and office space as UK workforce grows beyond 1,000 [Big tech Round 1, 30 Oct 2026] Committed $1.5bn to UK operations (2024–2029), expanding London and Staines offices (about 1,200+ UK staff) and offering Now Assist generative AI to the UK public sector and NHS under CCS frameworks. (Big tech file, line 128; no source link given.)", "uk_status": "foreign_with_uk_base", "company": { "ch_number": "06299383", "registered_office": null, "incorporated": null, "legal_form": null, "owner_or_acquirer": "ServiceNow, Inc. 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No address, headcount or opening date was given, and no Cursor page was opened in this session. [Round 4, 30 Oct 2026] UK office: London office as European headquarters (announced November 2025; restated June 2026) [Big tech Round 1, 30 Oct 2026] Cursor (Anysphere) announced on 20 November 2025 a London office as its European headquarters, its first expansion outside the US. 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Reports of a planned UK factory (2025, in leads) were not re-opened. Companies House shows ANDURIL INDUSTRIES UK LTD. as Active (checked 31 Oct 2026).", "one_line": "The UK subsidiary of a US defence company that makes autonomous systems and AI-driven surveillance and counter-drone technology for the British armed forces.", "description": "Anduril UK describes its work as transforming the British military with autonomous defence technology and says it reinvests more than 40% of its revenue in research and development. In October 2023 Anduril announced a £17m Ministry of Defence contract to explore force protection, counter-intrusion and counter-drone capabilities for the Royal Air Force and Strategic Command at Permanent Joint Operating Bases. No UK address, headcount or leader was given on the pages opened in this session. [Big tech Round 1, 30 Oct 2026] UK subsidiary founded in 2019, led by Dr Rich Drake (Managing Director, Anduril UK and Europe), with engineers in London, Oxford and Cambridge. Seabed Sentry is the first Anduril product designed in the UK. May 2025: teamed with Archer Aviation, Skyports and AtkinsRéalis on eVTOL cargo testing. 9–10 December 2025: teaming agreement with GKN Aerospace (Cowes) and Archer to bid for the MoD's Project NYX (uncrewed aircraft working with the Army's Apache AH-64E), supporting 100+ UK jobs. Its Lattice software is used by UK Border Force and the Royal Navy. 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The site is recorded on the Data centres page; its location was not stated on the pages opened in this session. [Round 4, 30 Oct 2026] GPUs: More than 23,000 NVIDIA GPUs; described as the UK's largest supercomputer (September 2025) [Big tech Round 1, 30 Oct 2026] Microsoft left the Loughton anchor deal with Nscale in October 2026 because of electricity-connection delays; the file says Nscale is pursuing other power sources and multi-tenant capacity. 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the launch day and city were not given. 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