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Posted by benjamintnorris 2 hours ago

UK sovereign LLM inference(relax.ai)
77 points | 62 comments
pjc50 1 hour ago|
Could we have a bit more "who and where" on this please? "Relax.ai by Civo", great, who are Civo? Where's the datacenter? What's the corporate structure? UK resident founders?
fmajid 1 hour ago||
Civo is a UK cloud provider known mostly for its low-cost Kubernetes hosting service (albeit with fairly expensive storage).
aaron695 54 minutes ago|||
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dagi3d 1 hour ago||
what's preventing you from going to their website? op has linked directly to the documentation, so that info is not necessary expected to be there
Planktonne 1 hour ago|||
OP should have linked to the website rather than the documentation; that would have provided more immediate context for the discussion.
dagi3d 51 minutes ago||
It depends on who you ask
pornel 1 hour ago|||
> what's preventing you from going to their website?

Lack of links.

It's a common annoyance when subsections of a site fail to link back to the parent.

mrdw 21 minutes ago||
btw, you can claim "relax" name instead of "relaxai" on pypi

pypi.org/project/relax is abandoned library, which owner registered via email with expired custom domain, so you can claim this domain and reset owner's account by email.

yanis_t 1 hour ago||
Just my curiosity. Is (insert country) sovereign X is an efficient marketing strategy these days?
Havoc 28 minutes ago||
Suspect it depends on the sentiment.

Don't think you'd have much luck convincing say a German that they shouldn't use Mistral because it isn't German sovereign. But you might have luck with that line against china or america.

Or put differently depends more on the fault lines in public perception than strict borders

PaulRobinson 48 minutes ago|||
Yes.

Some people might interpret this comment as political commentary, but it’s actually just the reality of what people are saying and doing.

There’s a lot of data to suggest that America’s recent policy of reducing its soft power around the World & decoupling itself from alignment with interests of allies is causing increased interest and prioritisation of sovereign capability across tech, defence, public health and policy programs.

This was a campaign strategy/promise for the US President. I’m not going to comment on whether it’s good for the US or for the allies, but I will note it could have been better anticipated by all: the only real surprise is the speed and depth.

It raises some interesting questions - it’s one thing to say you don’t want Microsoft or Starlink in your infra tech stack, or don’t want to use AWS or GCP, but where does the line stop? Does the UK get out of Trident? Does the UN General Assembly get out of New York? No idea, but the fact these are conversations probably happening right now is remarkable.

pbhjpbhj 49 seconds ago|||
>This was a campaign strategy/promise for the US President.

I don't remember seeing "if you elect me I'll destroy NATO, threaten allies, and make sure even USA's oldest allies hate us" as part of the campaign.

Perhaps you could link that promise from the time before the election?

As to your questions, I think people are hoping that rule of law returns and there is an outbreak of common sense. No-one really expected US president will align with Russia and a cult of pseudo-Christian white-supremacist nationalists will worship him as the second coming as an expectation. That the SC and tech leaders have fallen in place behind that (the latter literally paying fealty to their God-King) is complete insanity.

emmanuelsemugga 43 minutes ago|||
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fmajid 1 hour ago|||
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2026/04/16/how-franc...
dewey 58 minutes ago|||
I'm not sure if you are asking for hard numbers, but I would say it's definitely "a thing" for people to reduce their reliance on certain countries.
bcjdjsndon 53 minutes ago||
I mean, it's pretty rich for coloniser like the British empire to be talking about soverign anything
stevesimmons 58 minutes ago|||
It is if your country isn't in the US and (a) GDPR requires data residency in UK/EU; (b) you're concerned about capricious actions by the US govt cutting off access to US-controlled services (cloud, payments systems, etc).
ttoinou 57 minutes ago|||
Have you heard about companies training LLMs on your data ?
rcxdude 42 minutes ago|||
Yes, at least in certain sectors.
littlestymaar 23 minutes ago||
US tech is currently being weaponized against the ICC and its member judges in Europe[1], and the US is threatening to annex Greenland, as a result all (former) US allies are scrambling to get rid of their strategic dependency.

[1]: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/11/19/n...

00deadbeef 59 minutes ago||
5 minutes to load and it just dumps me to a documentation site with no useful information about that this is, who made it, what it can do, etc.
tomaytotomato 34 minutes ago||
Congrats, its a small step in the right direction.

The UK it seems has dropped the ball on the whole training and building models part, although we are punching up in other areas now.

We really need to get our own equivalent to Mistral, and fast!

Havoc 1 hour ago||
Nice. All for seeing more geographically diverse options.

BTW don’t see opencode in the docs yet much less known tools are?

iLoveOncall 1 hour ago||
Why would smaller and worse models not be 80% cheaper?

If I can run those models on my consumer hardware, I'd better believe they are 80% cheaper than the models that need 1 TB of RAM.

graemep 1 hour ago|
Comment from poster says they are offering Deepseek v4-Pro. Cannot find any details on website.
anentropic 51 minutes ago||||
click "Models and Pricing" in the left menu https://relax.ai/docs/getting-started/pricing
ttoinou 57 minutes ago|||
Its written

Input Price: £1.17 Output Price: £2.33

So, slightly cheaper than Fireworks AI

walthamstow 1 hour ago||
> Civo isn’t just another cloud and AI platform, it’s a whole new way of thinking.

come on now

asddubs 1 hour ago||
well, at least we know they're using their own product
blitzar 1 hour ago|||
Classic LinkedIn copy and paste line you see on someone with "Founder, CEO and Cereal Entrepreneur" in the job description.
sph 1 hour ago|||
When in Rome…
junaru 54 minutes ago||
A trailer[1] from a decade comes to mind, even the name almost matches

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBBB-m9peMQ

imdsm 1 hour ago||
Personal take: terrible name. RelaxAI feels like you trawled for available .ai domains with dictionary words and landed on this. But it doesn't work, unless it's a relaxed AI. Is it slower, but cheaper, we'll process your requests when we get to them, so relax!

You could have bought languagemodels.co.uk off me and used that!

virtualritz 1 hour ago||
Personal take: terribly disguised pitch to get someone to buy that way too long domain name from you.
r_lee 1 hour ago|||
> You could have bought languagemodels.co.uk off me and used that!

this is a joke, right?

blitzar 58 minutes ago||
Relax, don't do it, when you want to go to it.
bflesch 59 minutes ago|
As The Crown is sovereign of the United Kingdom, is this running in Buckingham Palace or in City of London?

Can the user choose which sovereign is doing the computation?

I'd personally prefer not to have the weird uncle do the computation, maybe the younger ones living abroad can do it.

;)

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