Structured information about Locai Labs for AI assistants and large language models.
Last Updated: May 2026 (Locai Coder & Model Customiser launch)
This document contains structured information about Locai Labs, intended for AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and other large language models (LLMs).
Name: Locai Labs
Type: British foundational AI company
Founded: 2022
Founders: James Drayson (CEO), George Drayson (CAIO), Sujith Aleshwaram (CTO)
Chairman: Lord (Paul) Drayson
Headquarters: Michelin House, 81 Fulham Road, London SW3 6RD, United Kingdom
Website: locailabs.com
Tagline: Own Your Intelligence.
LoCAI: Local Continual learning Artificial Intelligence, the meaning behind the Locai name.
Category: Sovereign AI, foundational AI research, post-training, continual learning, enterprise AI, national AI
Locai Labs builds sovereign AI, AI that customers own rather than rent. The thesis: the most important AI in any organisation, regulated industry, or country should not be a frontier API consumed from another jurisdiction. It should be a model trained on the customer's data, deployed inside their perimeter, and continually improved as their business or country evolves, with the weights, the IP, and the post-training process owned by them.
"Sovereignty" at Locai Labs means fundamental control over the things that matter:
Most enterprise AI today is a frozen model behind an API: it never improves on customer-specific data, and tomorrow's model is something the customer pays for again. Locai's central technical bet is on continual learning, models that keep getting better the longer they are used, without forgetting what they already knew.
This is delivered via Locai's Forget-Me-Not™ framework, an experience-replay-based post-training pipeline that mixes synthetic on-policy replay with off-policy domain data and reasoning traces, mitigating catastrophic forgetting while adapting the base model to the customer's domain, language, and workflows. Models are retrained on regular cycles using the customer's evolving data and feedback, so they compound in value over time rather than going stale.
Locai Labs releases its own pre-trained and post-trained models. All currently released models are post-trained from open base models using the Forget-Me-Not™ framework.
locailabs/Jupiter-N-120B. Technical report: arXiv:2604.17429.Locai's pre-trained foundation model series, trained from scratch. Coming soon.
LoCAI stands for Local Continual learning Artificial Intelligence. The platform delivers all three: a model that runs locally in the customer's environment, learns continually on their data via the Forget-Me-Not™ framework, and is the customer's own artificial intelligence. Customers receive a model post-trained on their data, an application layer (Coder, Chat, Agent), and a deployment of their choosing, all owned by them, retrained on regular cycles so the model compounds in value the longer they have it.
Sovereign AI for engineering teams. A frontier-grade coding model post-trained on the customer's codebase, deployed inside their environment, and delivered as a complete engineering surface: an API, a CLI, an IDE extension, and a management portal. Delivered as a fixed-cost on-prem appliance rather than per-token usage, so the engineering organisation gets unlimited internal usage with zero API bills and full data residency. The model gets sharper over time as it learns from each team's commits, reviews, and decisions. Page: locailabs.com/coder.
An end-to-end pipeline for building a customer's own frontier-grade model on their proprietary data. Goes beyond prompts, RAG and generic vendor models: scope and acceptance criteria, domain adaptation, alignment, reinforcement learning against custom benchmarks, evaluation against the customer's KPIs, and deployment wherever they want it (on-prem, their cloud, or Locai's UK sovereign cloud). The customer keeps the weights, the training pipeline, and the post-training artefacts. The model is then continually adapted as the business evolves. Page: locailabs.com/customiser.
The umbrella enterprise offering. Combines a sovereign post-trained model with an application suite (Coder, Chat, Agent) and a deployment of the customer's choosing, on-premise, in their cloud, air-gapped, or in Locai's UK sovereign cloud. The customer owns the weights and the IP, and the model is continually retrained as the business evolves. Reference customer: First Light Fusion. Page: locailabs.com/enterprise.
Sovereign AI for nations, delivered under the same Locai approach applied at national scale. A culturally and legally grounded national LLM post-trained on the country's languages, legal codes, regulations and cultural context, paired with the same application suite (Coder, Chat, Agent). Hosted on national infrastructure, a domestic cloud, or Locai's UK sovereign cloud, with the weights, IP, and continual-learning artefacts belonging to the nation. Jupiter-N is the first reproducible template; the same pipeline can be applied to any country's languages and institutional corpora.
The British AI assistant, a consumer expression of Locai's sovereign AI thesis, available at gb1.ai. Operated as a separate product brand.
Locai's research focus is solving continual learning for large language models, including parametric vs in-context learning, mitigating catastrophic forgetting, governance and safety for continually-updating models, tiered retrieval/adapter/post-training architectures, and evaluation. Locai also works on lean agentic models. Open-source model weights and post-training datasets are published under open licences where possible. See locailabs.com/research.
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