The UK will become an “AI maker not an AI taker”, according the prime minister, as he announced millions of pounds of funding to train students in AI.
Sir Keir Starmer said the UK public needed to “lean in” and embrace artificial intelligence.
NVIDIA chief executive Jensen Huang, who shared the stage with the prime minister, predicted that in the next 10 years, “every industry in the UK will be a tech industry” because of AI.
He said the UK has one of the “richest AI communities anywhere in the world” and is the biggest country for AI investment other than the US and China.
However, it currently doesn’t have the infrastructure needed to become a global AI superpower, he said.
“You can’t do machine learning without a machine. The ability to build AI supercomputers here in the UK will naturally attract more AI startups and create a better ecosystem, said Mr Huang.
His comments come on the morning two UK tech firms, Alphawave and Ionics, agreed takeovers by US rivals.
When Labour entered office, it cancelled a planned supercomputer, saying it wasn’t funded.
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It has since announced it wants to increase UK computing power 20-fold by 2030 and build a brand-new supercomputer.
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