Cambridge Quantum Computing, or CQC, is truly one of the most exciting - if not shrouded in awe-making mystery - businesses that are actively researching and profiting from quantum computing. Yes, quantum computing “isn’t'' artificial intelligence by the most binary (pun intended) computation we could write with for this article. However, as CQC are actively showcasing in their latest announcements, the use of applied quantum computing beyond research is already reaping benefits in non-binary cryptography. In a quote from their Medium blog, we can learn that their security solutions: “rel[y] on the intrinsic randomness of quantum-mechanical systems.” Most recently, CQC began an AI-based venture into QNLP. That stands for Quantum Natural Language processing, which is an entirely new concept in the world of NLP. The hopes that quantum-based natural language processing will far exceed the machine-computation efforts of BERT, GPT 3 and others, by being able to better simulate the ‘doubt and randomness’ of how humans compose their ideas and thoughts using language.

Featurespace™ is, by analogy, the ‘Batman of financial crime AI’ (If we’re saying Silicon Fen, we can say Batman of AI). Anyway, Featurespace is a leading force in Enterprise Financial Crime prevention for fraud and Anti-Money Laundering. So if working in a fintech-focused AI business sounds fun, Featurespace is one of the very best places to be in the UK for it.

  They invented what they call Adaptive Behavioral Analytics and created the ARIC™ platform, which is real-time machine learning software that risk scores events in more than 180 countries to prevent fraud and financial crime. ARIC Risk Hub uses advanced, explainable anomaly detection to enable financial institutions to automatically identify risk, catch new fraud attacks and identify suspicious activity in real time. And if you have more than passing fancy in crypto - good news: they work in this field too.