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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Mark Sweney

Jeff Bezos and UK government invest in £2bn British startup CuspAI

Closeup of circuit board showing four blue-packaged Nvidia chips with surrounding components and capacitors
Nvidia's Groq 3 chip. The firm is part of coalition launched by CuspAI that aims to build software to discover and developed new materials for chipmakers. Photograph: Max A Cherney/Reuters

Amazon’s founder, Jeff Bezos, and the UK government have invested in a £2bn British artificial intelligence startup that is aiming to become the “search engine for rare materials” that accelerates the next wave of technological breakthroughs.

The Cambridge-based CuspAI has raised $450m (£330m) in funding from investors including Bezos and the government’s sovereign AI fund, valuing the two-year-old business at $2.6bn.

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