Today, Nvidia has announced its plan to establish a new UK sovereign AI industry forum, with cloud providers Nscale and Nebius also pledging to build new facilities in the region using Blackwell GPU chips.
During a meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Investment Minister Poppy Gustafsson, Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang pledged to increase investment in the UK’s artificial intelligence sector, describing the UK as “one of the richest AI communities anywhere on the planet.”
Recently, the U.K. has shown signs of emerging as a major global player in AI, with its government pushing for a growth-driven agenda. As Huang put it, “The U.K. is in a Goldilocks circumstance.”
“I think it’s just such an incredible, incredible place to invest. I’m going to invest here,” Huang stated.
The UK, home to AI startups such as DeepMind, Wayve, Synthesia, and ElevenLabs, is “just missing one thing,” Huang explained: homegrown AI infrastructure. “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.”
Britain’s current government plans to quadruple its computing power by 2030.
By CEO NA Editorial Staff
