London, England, March 5, 2026 — has launched Vera 1.6, a proprietary hybrid AI model, and the Vera Platform, a unified agentic enterprise and professional system trained, owned, and operated entirely within the United Kingdom. The public beta went live on February 6, 2026.

The company says the launch addresses a structural gap in the UK enterprise AI market, where just 23% of businesses currently deploy AI in production—with security concerns and cross-border data risks cited as the primary barriers. Organizations processing sensitive data through US-headquartered providers are subject to the CLOUD Act, which allows US authorities to compel access to data no matter where it is stored.

Vera is designed to eliminate that dependency. By training and serving its own models on owned hardware within the UK, Cortex Research offers enterprises a compliant alternative with full data sovereignty under UK law, with plans to expand to the EU in the future.

Model architecture and performance

Combines Gated Delta Networks with a Sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture—a hybrid design the company says delivers competitive reasoning performance at production scale, inherited from the Qwen 3.5 foundation model used.

The model scored 92% on the HMMT February 2025 mathematics benchmark and 85.9% on GPQA Diamond, a graduate-level scientific reasoning evaluation, placing it in the competitive range of top closed-source frontier models such as Claude 4.5 Sonnet, Grok 4.1 & GPT-5-Mini.

Platform capabilities

The platform ships with 20 specialised featuring traceable, auditable execution workflows. Users can delegate multi-step tasks including research, data analysis, document generation, client communications, and presentation creation, with agents coordinating across enterprise systems in real time.

The platform integrates with Slack, Gmail, and Google Drive, and includes voice & and multi-modal capabilities alongside access for enterprise & professional deployment. Security and compliance features are built in, targeting regulated sectors including finance, legal, and healthcare. The company aims to achieve safety compliance by Q4 2026.

Pricing

The Vera Platform is available now at www.cortexresearch.co.uk across three subscription tiers: Starter at £20 per seat per month, Advanced at £40, and Professional at £200—which includes enterprise integrations, API access, compliance features, and dedicated support. Annual Teams and Enterprise plans are available on request.

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Cortex Research is building the next generation of enterprise Agentic AI in the UK, combining proprietary models with practical business solutions designed for real-world deployment. We empower organizations to move faster, innovate confidently, and achieve breakthrough outcomes through advanced AI.