Multiverse, the upskilling platform for AI and tech adoption, has opened its new technology hub in Edinburgh.
The news follows its recent $70m (£52.3m) funding round, with the new hub marking an expansion of Multiverse’s engineering footprint and places an additional centre of technical excellence outside of London.
Former Amazon leader Colin Mackenzie has been appointed as the company’s first VP of AI engineering to oversee the Edinburgh hub’s growth and bring his expertise to Multiverse’s AI talent development programme.
As part of its broader expansion, Multiverse will create 200 jobs in the next year across the new office and its London HQ, while continuing to grow revenue per employee. The firm says this will fuel its mission to translate AI’s potential into practical outcomes for employers across the UK and Europe.
For incoming and existing tech talent, Multiverse is also launching an internal upskilling model, pairing junior AI engineers with senior engineering leaders. This approach, Multiverse says, treats mentorship as a core engineering function, accelerating the development of practical AI skills through on-the-job learning alongside experienced practitioners.
“AI is changing how people work faster than they can retrain for it and without equitable access to AI skills, a lot of people get displaced and left behind,” says Mackenzie.
“We need to innovate at pace to solve this problem, and thankfully Scotland has the world-class AI talent required to help us do it. When we get it right, we change lives at a national scale.”
