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Britain seeks to build homegrown rival to OpenAI in bid to become world leader in artificial intelligence

The British government announced plans to become a world leader in artificial intelligence by removing red tape for data centers and expanding computing power, as stated by Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
Starmer's administration aims to create dedicated AI growth zones and increase server capacity twentyfold by 2030, according to the 50-point plan.
Three tech companies, including Vantage Data Centres, committed to investing £14 billion in AI, creating over 13,000 jobs, as reported by the government.
Starmer emphasized the potential of AI to transform various sectors, claiming it could be worth £47 billion annually to the UK over a decade.

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GZERO Media

British PM wants sovereign AI

On Monday, the British government announced the AI Opportunities Action Plan, Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s economic and technological development plan for artificial intelligence. Starmer’s goals include building a homegrown challenger to OpenAI, building data centers nationwide, and exploring renewable energy sources — including nuclear energy — to power the data centers. Last year, Starmer canceled $1.7 billion of spending commitments meant f…

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Fast Company

Britain wants to become an AI powerhouse. Here’s how

The British government pledged on Monday to rip up the red tape hindering construction of data centers that underpin artificial intelligence while promoting its “pro-innovation” approach to regulating the technology. Prime Minister Keir Starmer hailed the potential of AI as he outlined wide-ranging plans to harness the technology, indicating that it will be a key part of his government’s efforts to “turn around the economy” and jump-start lacklu…

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Channel 4

Starmer says UK can become ‘AI superpower’ to boost growth

Britain will be an “AI superpower” according to Sir Keir Starmer as he launched the government’s artificial intelligence action plan this morning. He said the technology holds the key to boosting economic growth as well as increasing productivity in public services. And – against a background of gloomy economic data – Downing Street tonight insisted that the Chancellor Rachel Reeves would stay in her post for the whole of this Parliament.

2 months ago·London, United Kingdom

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RNZ

Prime Minister Starmer plans to make Britain AI 'superpower'

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he wanted to make the UK an artificial intelligence "superpower", promising to take a pro-innovation approach to regulation, make public data available to researchers and create zones for data centres.

2 months ago·New Zealand

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Semafor

UK plans to ramp up AI in ‘decade of national renewal’

The NewsThe UK government unveiled details of a far-reaching plan to boost artificial intelligence adoption on Monday, including a multibillion-pound investment in computing capacity and the creation of zones across the country with expedited planning approvals to facilitate the buildout of data centers.It also announced plans to build a National Data Library of public sector data assets for the purpose of training AI models.“AI has the potentia…

2 months ago·New York, United States

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