- The U.K. is in a "Goldilocks circumstance," Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Monday as he praised the country's artificial intelligence sector.
- Britain has been touting its potential as a global AI player of late as Keir Starmer prioritizes a growth-focused agenda with his Labour government.
LONDON — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang poured praise on the U.K. on Monday, promising to boost investment in the country's artificial intelligence sector with his multitrillion-dollar semiconductor company.
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WATCH HERE"The U.K. is in a Goldilocks circumstance," Huang said, speaking on a panel with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Investment Minister Poppy Gustafsson. "You can't do machine learning without a machine — and so the ability to build these AI supercomputers here in the U.K. will naturally attract more startups."
The Nvidia boss went on to say, "I think it's just such an incredible, incredible place to invest. I'm going to invest here."
Huang also stressed that Britain "has one of the richest AI communities anywhere on the planet," along with "amazing startups" such as DeepMind, Wayve, Synthesia and ElevenLabs.
"The ecosystem is really perfect for takeoff — it's just missing one thing," he said, referring to a lack of homegrown, sovereign U.K. AI infrastructure.
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Earlier Monday, Nvidia announced a new U.K. sovereign AI industry forum, as well as commitments from cloud vendors Nscale and Nebius to deploy new facilities in the country with thousands of the semiconductor giant's Blackwell graphics processing unit, or GPU, chips.
The U.K. has been touting its potential as a global AI player in recent months, amid Starmer's efforts to lead his Labour government with a growth-focused agenda.
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SIGN UP In January, Starmer unveiled a bold plan to boost the domestic U.K. AI sector, promising to relax planning rules around new data center developments and increase British computing power by twenty-fold by 2030.
