This week, the United Kingdom became the main focus in the AI world. NVIDIA’s founder and CEO Jensen Huang visited London for a special event, joined by the UK’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer and top leaders from the UK and US governments. Their goal is to help the UK become a world leader in artificial intelligence, bringing together its strong universities, expert researchers, smart startups, and active investors.
At the event, leaders discussed how the UK has evolved from leading the industrial revolution to being the third largest AI market in the world. The country is home to thousands of AI companies and tens of thousands of skilled employees. Prime Minister Starmer announced that the UK and the US are working together with NVIDIA to use AI for national security, business, trade, and safety.
Liz Kendall, the UK’s Secretary for Science, Innovation and Technology, explained how AI can create opportunities for everyone, even though some might find it confusing at first. Peter Kyle, the UK’s Secretary for Business and Trade, reminded everyone that this plan includes all regions across the country, not just London. Howard Lutnick, the US Secretary of Commerce, emphasized the need to build strong digital infrastructure to support these new AI technologies and to ensure that both the UK and US can remain leaders in this important area.
Hundreds of people attended the event to create new business connections, share ideas, and learn how AI can help grow the economy.
One of the big announcements was that NVIDIA will invest two billion pounds in the UK in partnership with several respected investment firms. This investment is designed to help new AI businesses get started, create jobs, and bring fresh ideas to a wide range of industries.
Other key updates included the launch of the largest AI infrastructure project in UK history, using 120,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs. By 2026, these GPUs will power advanced AI facilities run by companies like Microsoft, Nscale, OpenAI, and CoreWeave.
NVIDIA is also working with Oxford Quantum Circuits to build a special center that brings together quantum computing and AI. To develop future AI talent, NVIDIA is partnering with techUK and QA to open a robotics research and training center.
The University of Bristol is now home to the UK’s most powerful AI supercomputer, called Isambard-AI, built on NVIDIA’s Grace Hopper Superchips. This supercomputer will help speed up important national projects in healthcare, climate science, and public services.
All of these moves are designed to strengthen the UK’s place in the fast-growing field of AI, support innovation, drive more economic growth, and create many new jobs for people across the country.
Original article and image: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/uk-ai-ecosystem-celebration/
