Starling to train AI model on sovereign UK cloud and its own data

UK bank Starling is training a Transactional Foundation Model on 15 billion anonymised transactions in Civo's UK sovereign cloud to cut reliance on US providers. The model was written from scratch by the bank's data scientists, with Nvidia sharing a blueprint.

• Starling trains TFM on 15 billion anonymised transactions
• Model runs in UK sovereign cloud from Civo
• Bank aims to reduce reliance on US cloud providers
• Existing AI fraud model lifted prevention by 52% this year