benjamintnorris

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   by benjamintnorris 4mo ago

   Hi jstummbillig, I appreciate the feedback. We’re careful to state only that users can expect up to an 80% cost reduction when switching away from OpenAI. Our DeepSeek V4 Pro model is a good example of this.
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   by benjamintnorris 4mo ago

   Hi Luke - both points are fair and worth answering properly. On the policy: you’re right, that wording is too loose for what we actually do. The inference path is UK-only - no model inference, no prompt or response data, leaves UK jurisdict
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   by benjamintnorris 4mo ago

   Apologies - we had a lot of sudden traffic from Hackernews! We’re looking at it right now. Thanks for flagging.
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   by benjamintnorris 4mo ago

   Thank you! We'll check this out.
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   by benjamintnorris 4mo ago

   Civo isn’t a US company and isn’t a subsidiary of one. UK-incorporated since 2018, UK-resident leadership, no US parent, entirely UK founder owned. We also share the concern on the Azure/AWS “sovereign cloud”, but this doesn't app
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   by benjamintnorris 4mo ago

   For the very hardest reasoning tasks GPT-5 and Opus are still ahead, no argument there. But what we see in practice is customers dropping in an open-source model and getting very similar results on 80-90% of real-world use cases — with sign
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   by benjamintnorris 4mo ago

   Completely agree - we’re really eager to work with any UK model lab that wants to make a difference!
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   by benjamintnorris 4mo ago

   relaxAI is a spin-out from Civo — UK-incorporated cloud provider, been around since 2018, founded by Mark Boost. Probably best known for managed Kubernetes (fmajid’s got it right downthread). We spun out in 2026 to focus on sovereign infere
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   by benjamintnorris 4mo ago

   Also worth checking out https://github.com/jmesout/relax-claude
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    by benjamintnorris 4mo ago

    We’re closely partnered with the LocAI model lab, we’re looking forward to running their models on the platform in the next few months!
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    by benjamintnorris 4mo ago

    Hi! We support OpenCode, as well as any other coding tools accepting OpenAI compatible endpoints. For example, take a look at: https://relax.ai/docs/integrations/developer-productivity-to...
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    UK sovereign LLM inference(relax.ai)

    107 points by benjamintnorris 4mo ago|112 comments
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    by benjamintnorris 4mo ago

    Hi HN, I'm Ben, founding engineer at relaxAI. We built a UK sovereign inference provider for developers who are either paying too much for OpenAI/Claude tokens or can't use US hyperscalers due to data residency requirements.