British AI start-up founded by sixth form dropout valued at £2.5bn

He dropped out of college as a teen. Nine years later, his AI firm is worth $3.3bn

Olix, 25-year-old Dacombe's chip startup, hit $3.3bn valuation (tripled in 6 months on $312m raise) backed by Arm and Reed Hastings. Specialized silicon for LLM inference undercuts Nvidia on cost; signals competitive threat to GPU provider dominance.