NVIDIA BritLLM: UK Sovereign LLM Supporting Welsh and English

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NVIDIA BritLLM: UK Sovereign LLM Supporting Welsh and English

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Bringing AI to UK Languages With NVIDIA Nemotron | NVIDIA Blog Reaching Across the Isles: UK-LLM Brings AI to UK Languages With NVIDIA Nemotron Trained on the Isambard-AI supercomputer, a new model developed by University College London, NVIDIA and Bangor University taps NVIDIA Nemotron open-source techniques and datasets to enable AI reasoning for Welsh and other UK languages for public services including healthcare, education and legal resources. September 13, 2025 by Kari Briski 0 Comments Share Share This Article X Facebook LinkedIn Copy link Link copied. To empower their speakers, the UK-LLM sovereign AI initiative is building an AI model based on NVIDIA Nemotron that can reason in both English and Welsh, a language spoken by about 850,000 people in Wales today. Enabling high-quality AI reasoning in Welsh will support the delivery of public services including healthcare, education and legal resources in the language. to be able to harness the benefits of artificial intelligence. By enabling AI to reason in Welsh, we’re making sure that public services — from healthcare to education — are accessible to everyone, in the language they live by,” said U. “This is a powerful example of how the latest AI technology, trained on the U. ’s most advanced AI supercomputer in Bristol, can serve the public good, protect cultural heritage and unlock opportunity across the country. ” The UK-LLM project, established in 2023 as BritLLM and led by University College London, has previously released two models for U. Its new model for Welsh, developed in collaboration with Wales’ Bangor University and NVIDIA, aligns with Welsh government efforts to boost the active use of the language, with the goal of achieving a million speakers by 2050 — an initiative known as Cymraeg 2050. -based AI cloud provider Nscale will make the new model available to developers through its application programming interface. “The aim is to ensure that Welsh remains a living, breathing language that continues to develop with the times,” said Gruffudd Prys, senior terminologist and head of the Language Technologies Unit at Canolfan Bedwyr, the university’s center for Welsh language services, research and technology. “AI shows enormous potential to help with second-language acquisition of Welsh as well as for enabling native speakers to improve their language skills. ” This new model could also boost the accessibility of Welsh resources by enabling public institutions and busi