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The UK's Sovereign AI Lab

Cosine launched Lumen, a coding-focused AI model family it calls the UK's sovereign AI lab, claiming its specialist models outperform generalist systems including GPT-5.4, Gemini 3.1 Pro, GPT-5.5, and Kimi K2.6 on its Niche-Bench benchmark. Cosine published an open letter on sovereign AI for the United Kingdom supported by a coalition of executives from critical national infrastructure, and offers Lumen in public cloud, managed single-tenant, and fully air-gapped deployments with post-training for COBOL, Fortran, Verilog, Rust, and complex SQL.

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The UK's Sovereign AI Lab
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We train AI models and specialised coding agents for organisations that need frontier capability inside secure environments.

In coalition with

Open Letter on Sovereign AI for the United Kingdom #

We have published an open letter, supported by a coalition of executives from critical national infrastructure.

View Open Letter

Real benchmarks. Real results. #

Lumen is optimised for the outcomes that matter: shipping better code, faster, with fewer headaches.

GPT-5.4

Gemini 3.1 Pro

GPT-5.5

Kimi K2.6

Lumen Outpost

Read more about Niche-Bench Most AI models try to be everything to everyone. They write poetry, solve physics problems, and summarise novels.

Lumen does one thing: write exceptional software.

Our thesis is simple. A model trained exclusively on real production code, from real engineering teams will always beat a generalist at the task developers actually need.

That's why every training decision, every optimisation, every evaluation metric is grounded in a single objective: better code.

Less AI Slop

Optimised for maintainability, readability, and production-quality outputs, not bloated code generation.

Built for Real Systems

Designed to reason across complex architectures, legacy infrastructure, and long-lived codebases.

Beyond Mainstream Languages

Post-trained for enterprise and niche languages including COBOL, Fortran, Verilog, Rust, and complex SQL.

Use Cosine wherever you work #

Start in your terminal

Work within a terminal-native interface, with a local-to-remote execution model, external tool access via MCP, and multi-agent orchestration.

Collaborate in the Cloud

Run multiple coding tasks in parallel, plan large changes and collaborate across engineers, PMs, and stakeholders in a shared project.

Built to fit your security environment #

Start quickly in Cosine Cloud, or move into a dedicated tenant or fully air-gapped deployment when your infrastructure, data, and compliance requirements demand it.

Public Cloud

Fully managed Cosine for teams whose requirements fit our standard cloud controls.

Managed single-tenant cloud

A private Cosine environment operated for your organisation with enterprise controls.

Fully air-gapped

For organisations that need Cosine to run entirely inside their own security perimeter.

Three models. One philosophy. #

Lumen isn't a single model — it's a system designed for every layer of the development workflow.

Runs cheaply, operates on-device, and handles the heavy lifting around the coding loop.

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