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58 Britain Seeks to Build a Homegrown OpenAI Rival, Become a World Leader in AI

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 01/12/2025 19:07 EDT

Britain Seeks to Build a Homegrown OpenAI Rival, Become a World Leader in AI

"The U.K is looking to build a homegrown challenger to OpenAI and drastically increase national computing infrastructure," reports CNBC, "as Prime Minister Keir Starmer's government sets its sights on becoming a global leader in artificial intelligence."


The government is primarily seeking to expand data center capacity across the U.K. to boost developers of powerful AI models which rely on high-performance computing equipment hosted in remote locations to train and run their systems. A target of increasi

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