Today, @leicesterliz and I are announcing a transformational c.£25bn AI growth package - deals, reforms, appointments - that together put AI opportunity firmly in the hands of British workers, kids and communities. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐂 𝐈𝐍𝐕𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐒 (with exceptional leadership from @JoStevensLabour and @PrifWeinidog) A £10bn AI Growth Zone in North Wales, with thousands of jobs to power a proud AI future And now, a £10bn AI Growth Zone in South Wales, 5000 jobs, transforming our community for the next technological revolution A total of c.8500 jobs in communities that have shaped industrial progress before and will shape AI progress again A wider policy package to take years off grid connection, months off planning, and makes Britain an exceptional place for AI Growth Zone investment 🚀𝐀𝐈 𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐃𝐎𝐔𝐁𝐋𝐄 𝐃𝐎𝐖𝐍 𝐎𝐍 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐒𝐇 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐅𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 @Equinix £3.9bn compute investment in Hertfordshire Leading US inference platform, @GroqInc, investing £100m and opening its first UK data centre Emerging UK AI hyperscaler, AI Pathfinder, investing £150m @perplexity_ai, popular AI search platform, investing £80m to expand their London office, creating 100 jobs UK chip leader, @graphcoreai, doubling its UK headcount and opening a new AI dev lab in Bristol AI coding automation platform, @cursor_ai, opening its first UK office @cerebras, leading US AI chip maker, expanding in the UK and announcing its ‘Cerebras for Nations’ partnership with the UK @Zoom investing a further £24m in the UK 🤝𝐀𝐈 𝐀𝐌𝐁𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐃𝐎𝐑𝐒 𝐁𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐑𝐔𝐌 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐔𝐊 𝐀𝐈 @t_blom, exceptional founder of Monzo and GoCardless, will be AI Ambassador helping us ensure British talent builds an audacious AI future Deepmind’s VP Research, @RaiaHadsell, will be AI Ambassador supporting our effort to grow the UK's AI research and commercial lead Simon Johnson, Nobel-winning economist, will be our AI Ambassador focused on driving AI adoption and productivity impact cross-economy 🇬🇧 𝐒𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐈𝐆𝐍 𝐀𝐈 𝐓𝐎 𝐁𝐔𝐈𝐋𝐃 𝐀 𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐓𝐋𝐘 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐒𝐇 𝐀𝐈 𝐅𝐔𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄 @jamespaulwise, brilliant tech investor @balderton, will chair Sovereign AI, a new £500m initiative to back strategic British AI firms A £250m AI Research Resource (AIRR) procurement will ensure compute resources for the best of British research in public interest A world-first £100m Advance Market Commitment (AMC) for novel compute will focus on how Britain can build global leadership in new forms of AI compute 🧪𝐀𝐈 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐒𝐂𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄, 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐀𝐈 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐒𝐋𝐎𝐏 (with Lord Vallance) A £137m strategy that focuses on a clear national mission: using AI in pursuit of novel therapeutics, new drugs to tackle life-threatening disease Compute for leading UK AI for materials firm, @cusp_ai, to double down on its world-changing work from the UK Data call with @RenPhil21 and data generation capabilities to drive major advances in AI-driven science