Key Points
- Gigatokens, a London-headquartered Behavox company, has named UK sovereign cloud and AI platform Civo as its UK infrastructure partner.
- The partnership is designed to provide regulated firms with access to frontier AI inference processed on infrastructure located and operated in the United Kingdom.
- Gigatokens says its service provides UK sovereign data processing, zero data retention by default and no training on customer data.
- The company already serves customers from GPU clusters in the UK, while dedicated capacity secured through an $8 million commitment announced by Behavox on 7 October is being added as it comes into service.
- The infrastructure is intended for organisations handling sensitive information such as client communications, deal information, trading records and personal data.
- Gigatokens provides access through an OpenAI-compatible API and through Gigatokens Conductor, its platform for always-on AI agents.
- Civo operates data centres in the UK and is expanding its sovereign cloud and AI infrastructure, including a planned network of UK edge data centres.
- Behavox said its customers include global banks, hedge funds, asset managers, commodity traders and insurers.
- Civo CEO Mark Boost said the partnership demonstrates that the UK can provide a high-performance alternative to overseas technology providers.
- Gigatokens inference and Gigatokens Conductor are available, with pricing offered on a per-token basis.
Gigatokens, a London-based Behavox company, has appointed UK sovereign cloud and AI provider Civo as its UK infrastructure partner as the companies move to provide regulated firms with AI inference processed on British infrastructure. The arrangement combines Gigatokens’ frontier open-weights AI models with dedicated GPU capacity in the United Kingdom, with the companies highlighting UK data processing and zero data retention by default as key features for organisations handling sensitive information.
What has Gigatokens announced about its partnership with Civo?
As reported by Gigatokens via Business Wire on 8 October 2026, Gigatokens has named Civo as its UK infrastructure partner for its AI inference services. Gigatokens said it already serves customers from GPU clusters located in the United Kingdom, while additional dedicated capacity secured under an $8 million commitment announced on 7 October is being brought online to expand that capability.
Gigatokens is a Behavox company headquartered in London and focuses on providing AI inference to regulated institutions and enterprises. Its service uses frontier open-weights models and is designed around UK sovereign processing, meaning prompts and completions can be processed within the UK rather than being sent to an AI service operating infrastructure overseas.
The company said its offering includes zero data retention by default and that customer data is not used to train its models. It also provides an OpenAI-compatible API, allowing organisations to access the service through an interface compatible with applications already built around that type of API.
The announcement places particular emphasis on organisations for which the location and handling of data are material considerations. Gigatokens said this includes financial institutions and enterprises holding information that they cannot send to an AI service abroad.
Why is UK-based AI infrastructure important for regulated firms?
The central issue behind the partnership is the handling of sensitive corporate and financial information.
According to Gigatokens via Business Wire, the types of information that may require UK-based processing include client communications, deal information, trading records and personal data. The company said prompts and completions can be processed in the UK while nothing is retained by default.
For regulated organisations, the ability to control where data is processed can be an important consideration when deploying AI systems. Banks, investment firms, insurers and other financial businesses routinely handle commercially sensitive and personal information, making data residency and security relevant to decisions about external AI services.
Behavox, the parent company of Gigatokens, said in its 7 October announcement that its customers include global banks, hedge funds, asset managers, commodity traders and insurers. It said those customers trust the company with sensitive information including employee communications and trading records.
The $8 million commitment with Civo therefore represents more than an expansion of computing capacity. It is intended to secure dedicated GPU infrastructure in the UK so that AI models supporting Behavox products can process sensitive customer information locally.
What does the $8 million commitment between Behavox and Civo provide?
Behavox announced the $8 million commitment with Civo on 7 October 2026. The agreement secures dedicated GPU capacity in the United Kingdom for processing customer data locally.
Behavox described the arrangement as part of a broader effort to expand AI computing capacity as demand increases among regulated industries for affordable AI tokens and agentic AI designed for regulated organisations.
The company said the Civo agreement follows Civo’s expansion of its UK infrastructure. Behavox also linked the commitment to Civo’s plans for UK edge data centres and its deployment of NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin platform.
Civo announced on 22 September that it was developing a flagship edge data centre in Hertfordshire, described as the first of 40 planned UK sites. Behavox’s 7 October announcement also referred to Civo’s planned deployment of the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform, targeted for 2027.
This wider infrastructure development provides the computing foundation for the additional capacity being secured by Behavox and sold through its affiliated company, Gigatokens.
How will Gigatokens customers access the AI service?
Gigatokens said its tokens are available through two primary routes.
The first is an OpenAI-compatible API. This is intended to allow organisations to access AI models through an interface that can fit into existing technology environments.
The second route is Gigatokens Conductor, which the company describes as its platform for always-on AI agents. This provides a route for organisations seeking to use AI agents rather than limiting deployment to individual model queries.
Gigatokens also said that its pricing is published on a per-token basis. The company said both Gigatokens inference and Gigatokens Conductor are available.
The combination of an API, agent platform and published token pricing positions the service as an infrastructure and AI-access offering rather than simply a single-purpose AI application.
For firms considering the deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) within regulated environments, the infrastructure location, data-handling model and integration method can all influence how AI systems are incorporated into existing technology operations.
What did Aleksei Shishkin say about the Civo partnership?
Aleksei Shishkin, Vice President of Technology Operations at Gigatokens, said the company needed dedicated GPUs in the UK from a provider that owns and operates the infrastructure.
As reported by Gigatokens via Business Wire, Shishkin said Civo had capacity available and had committed to delivering it within months rather than years. He said this means customers’ sensitive data can now be processed on British infrastructure without being retained, through the API customers already use.
Shishkin’s comments highlight the speed of infrastructure deployment as an important element of the agreement. Rather than relying solely on future capacity, Gigatokens said Civo was able to provide available capacity and commit to a relatively rapid delivery timetable.
The statement also underlines the intended relationship between infrastructure and data handling. Gigatokens is using UK-based GPU resources to support AI inference while maintaining its stated default position of retaining no customer data.
What has Civo said about sovereign AI infrastructure?
Mark Boost, CEO of Civo, said on 7 October that bringing AI processing onto infrastructure built and operated in the UK demonstrates that the country can provide a high-performance alternative to overseas technology companies. His comments were referenced in the Gigatokens announcement published through Business Wire.
Civo separately described the Behavox agreement as part of the company’s role in providing sovereign UK infrastructure for AI workloads. The company said its data centres are located entirely within the United Kingdom and that its cloud and AI platform is designed around data residency, security and compliance.
Civo’s infrastructure business includes Kubernetes and cloud services, while the company is expanding its presence in UK edge computing.
The company said it is trusted by institutions and companies including the University of Oxford, Mercedes-Benz and Orbital. Civo presents its UK-only infrastructure as a way for organisations to maintain data residency while deploying and scaling applications.
How does the agreement fit into Behavox’s wider AI expansion?
The Civo commitment forms part of a wider expansion of computing capacity by Behavox.
In its 7 October announcement, Behavox said it was securing AI compute with other neocloud providers in response to strong demand from regulated industries for affordable tokens and agentic AI designed for regulated entities.
The company said its financial-sector customers operate across several areas, including banking, hedge funds, asset management, commodities and insurance. These organisations can handle large volumes of sensitive communications and financial records, creating requirements around how AI systems process and store information.
Behavox also referred to a $175 million preferred equity investment from HPS Investment Partners, part of BlackRock, announced in June 2026, as part of the company’s broader development.
The Civo agreement therefore sits within a larger strategy involving AI computing capacity, sovereign infrastructure and the development of AI services for highly regulated customers.
What is Gigatokens and what does Civo provide?
Gigatokens is headquartered in London and operates as a Behavox company. It provides frontier AI inference from dedicated GPU clusters in the UK, with the company stating that its infrastructure supports UK sovereign data processing, zero data retention by default and no training on customer data.
Civo describes itself as a UK sovereign cloud and AI platform. Its infrastructure includes data centres located entirely within the UK, where it provides cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure.
The companies’ roles are therefore complementary. Civo provides the UK-based computing infrastructure, while Gigatokens provides access to AI models and inference services for regulated institutions and enterprises.
This relationship also connects the development of sovereign cloud infrastructure with the growing use of AI in financial and other regulated industries.
What does the partnership mean for UK sovereign AI?
The Gigatokens-Civo agreement adds another commercial example of UK-based infrastructure being used to support AI workloads involving sensitive corporate information.
The companies are focusing on customers that may have restrictions or concerns around sending information to AI services operating outside the UK. By processing prompts and completions through infrastructure located in Britain, Gigatokens says it can offer an alternative for organisations seeking UK-based AI processing.
The companies’ approach also reflects a wider shift towards sovereign AI infrastructure, in which data residency, infrastructure ownership, security requirements and regulatory considerations form part of AI deployment decisions.
For businesses building AI systems around sensitive information, this development brings together several areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and IT and Computer Science, particularly AI infrastructure, cloud computing, application integration and data-handling practices.
The partnership does not mean that all AI workloads used by regulated firms must be processed in the UK. Rather, Gigatokens and Civo are offering a UK-based infrastructure option for organisations whose requirements make local processing important.
What services are available from Gigatokens?
Gigatokens said its inference service and Gigatokens Conductor are available now. The company provides access through its OpenAI-compatible API as well as through Conductor for always-on AI agents.
The company has also published per-token pricing, giving prospective customers a defined pricing structure for its AI inference services.
Civo’s infrastructure is intended to provide the underlying UK computing environment, while Gigatokens manages the AI inference offering aimed at regulated institutions and enterprises.
The immediate significance of the announcement is therefore commercial as well as technological: two UK-focused technology companies are combining sovereign cloud infrastructure and AI inference services to address demand from organisations that need to process sensitive information within Britain.
The development also comes as businesses increasingly assess AI not only on model performance but on where computing takes place, how information is handled and whether AI systems can be incorporated into existing corporate technology environments.
For organisations examining these developments, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and IT and Computer Science are directly relevant areas for understanding AI infrastructure, APIs, cloud platforms, data processing and the technical considerations involved in deploying AI within regulated business environments.