Relevant news indicates that British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak plans to spend 1 million pounds to purchase thousands of high-performance artificial intelligence chips to promote the application of artificial intelligence technology in the UK and enhance the UK's important position in promoting the growth of artificial intelligence technology.
The UK government has been in talks with companies such as NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel, with discussions expected to be final with NVIDIA. The government is expected to purchase 5000 high-performance GPUs from NVIDIA. In addition to the current £1 million allocated, the government appears to be planning to allocate further funding for AI development, hoping to make the UK an "AI superpower."
As the UK lags significantly behind the United States and major European countries in the current development of artificial intelligence technology, it hopes to accelerate the development of artificial intelligence research and training in the UK by purchasing more high-performance GPU products that can be used for artificial intelligence training.
The results of the negotiations between the UK government and NVIDIA cannot be confirmed at the moment, nor can the specifications of GPUs that the UK government will mainly purchase be confirmed, but it is expected to be officially put into use as early as next summer.
