UK is going to be AI superpower', says Nvidia boss as he invests 500m

"We're here to announce that the UK is going to be an AI superpower, he told a press conference in London. Huang cited as evidence of Britain's potential its universities and several companies founded in the UK, ranging from the AI giant DeepMind to the driverless car startup Wayve. You just don't appreciate it. Your universities. Come on. You're too humble, he said. The semiconductor boss spoke as China moved to ban its biggest AI firms from buying Nvidia chips, in a sign of the growing geopolitical battle to gain dominance in AI."

"Huang said Nvidia was selling 120,000 graphics processing units to the UK as part of an investment amounting to 11bn, with 70% of that cost coming from computing and networking, including the chips, and 30% going on land, power and the structures of the data centre. Huang said the combined additional computing power would be approximately 100 times the performance of the fastest supercomputer in the UK right now, the Isambard AI supercomputer [in Bristol]."

"Huang said he was disappointed at reports that Beijing was bringing in the ban, adding: It is safer for the world that China and the United States collaborate in AI, and Chinese researchers collaborate in AI than to isolate. He also stepped into a row over how AI companies treat artists' copyrighted material, which has been used wholesale to train AI systems, saying: Artists should have the ability to monetise their creation we have to find ways for them to continue to do so."

Jensen Huang predicted the UK will become an AI superpower and announced a 500m equity stake in NScale, a British cloud computing company. He projected NScale could earn up to 50bn in revenues over the next six years. Nvidia is supplying 120,000 GPUs to the UK as part of an 11bn investment, with 70% of costs for computing and networking and 30% for land, power and data centre structures. The added computing power would be roughly 100 times the performance of the UK's fastest supercomputer, Isambard. Huang urged collaboration between China and the US on AI and said artists should be able to monetise their creations.

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