Starling partners with NVIDIA to build a sovereign AI model
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Reported on October 16, 2026, the UK digital bank Starling is working with NVIDIA to develop a transaction foundation model, with UK cloud service provider Civo ensuring that the model is trained and hosted within the UK sovereign cloud. The model will be trained on more than 15 billion anonymized transactions from Starling’s proprietary data assets and is planned to enter production in early 2027. Initially, the model will be used to enhance fraud detection, and will later be extended to Starling Assistant.
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Starling is working with Nvidia to develop a transaction foundation model, with Civo ensuring that the model is trained and hosted within a UK sovereign cloud. The model will be trained on more than 15 billion anonymized transactions from Starling’s proprietary data assets and is planned to enter production in early 2027, initially to strengthen fraud detection before expanding to Starling Assistant.
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