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Lindley Lentati

Founder of Tertium AI and co-founder of Cambridge Inference.

Lindley Lentati, founder of Tertium AI and co-founder of Cambridge Inference, argued at Civo Navigate London on 22 September 2026 that the UK's $92bn AI market lacks sovereign capability of its own.

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Lindley Lentati is founder of Tertium AI and co-founder of Cambridge Inference, two UK artificial intelligence companies. He gave a solo talk, Sovereign AI and the UK's strategic future, at Civo Navigate London on 22 September 2026.

Lentati argued the UK is the world's third-largest AI market, worth $92bn in 2024, yet depends on AI systems built elsewhere. He drew a parallel with the 1946 US McMahon Act, under which Washington cut Britain off from nuclear technology it had helped develop, and proposed a phased UK Sovereign AI research programme built with a Coalition of democratic middle powers.

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Who is Lindley Lentati?
Lindley Lentati is founder of Tertium AI and co-founder of Cambridge Inference, and gave a solo talk on Sovereign AI policy at Civo Navigate London 2026.Source: Civo blog
Why does Lindley Lentati compare AI policy to the McMahon Act?
He argues the 1946 US McMahon Act, which cut Britain off from nuclear technology it had helped develop, is a historical parallel for the UK's current dependence on AI systems built elsewhere.Source: Civo blog
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