The UK will invest in a huge expansion of government-owned AI computing capacity over five years including building a new supercomputer as it seeks to establish a globally competitive artificial intelligence sector, ministers will announce on Monday.
The move is in response to a newly published report on AI opportunities for the UK economy, commissioned by the government and drafted by British venture capitalist Matt Clifford.
The supercomputer will join the UK’s two other advanced machines including Isambard-AI at the University of Bristol, which contains about 5,000 graphics processing units (GPUs), specialised chips to build AI software, and Dawn at the University of Cambridge.