Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)//Alistair Pullen
Why a Nation Can't Outsource Its Frontier AI - Alistair Pullen (Cosine AI)
Alistair Pullen says Cosine is building a UK sovereign frontier model because export controls and compute constraints forced the company to pursue its own stack. He argues the real bottlenecks are inference economics, active parameters, trajectory data, and better RL reward shaping for coding agents.