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How the UK Is Turning Sovereign AI Ambition Into Action With NVIDIA Technologies
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A year ago at London Tech Week, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang and U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer made a declaration: the U.K. would be an AI maker, not an AI taker.
Key facts
- Achieving nearly 3x speedups in model training with NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, Prima Mente also uses NVIDIA Parabricks for genomic data processing and NVIDIA Transformer Engine for model optimization
- On Isambard, Doubleword’s early results achieved 70x faster model cold starts, aka model loading times, and 4x lossless KV cache compression, critical advancements for long-running agentic workloads
- In May, the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute (DLI) delivered two new courses, added to support the nation’s wireless research community, to participants from over 30 U.K. universities
- A year ago at London Tech Week, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang and U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer made a declaration: the U.K. would be an AI maker, not an AI taker
Summary
A year ago at London Tech Week, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang and U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer made a declaration: the U.K. would be an AI maker, not an AI taker. At this year’s event, NVIDIA and its partners are showcasing how that commitment is producing real momentum across the nation’s infrastructure, startups and enterprises. U.K. technology leaders are innovating across healthcare and life sciences, coding, agentic AI, inference and more, all running on sovereign AI deployments. AI Minister Kanishka Narayan said: “A year ago, they said the UK would be an AI maker, not an AI taker. “NVIDIA’s decision to invest billions here is a reflection of the strength of what’s being built in Britain.