At a news conference yesterday in London, the Nvidia CEO predicted the UK can become an “AI superpower” and announced a new £500 million ($681 million) in NScale, a UK cloud computing company.
Huang said Nvidia was selling 120,000 chips to the UK, allowing it to build a supercomputer 100 times larger than the fastest one currently in the country.
Speaking today outside Chequers, where US President Donald Trump is holding talks with Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Huang said the UK’s artificial intelligence industry had reached a “Goldilocks moment.”
“The UK is the home of some of the brightest AI researchers, some of the best universities, a really vibrant AI startup ecosystem,” Huang said. “All of this flywheel is actually right here – it just needs infrastructure.”
Building that infrastructure will create skilled jobs and spur economic growth in Britain, he said.
Despite Huang’s optimism, Nick Clegg – Meta’s former president of global affairs and the UK’s former deputy prime minister – has cast doubts on the claims of the AI industry.
On Wednesday, Clegg said the UK risked getting “sloppy seconds from Silicon Valley,” and that the tech deals unveiled during Trump’s visit were “mutton dressed as lamb.”
There are also concerns that building new energy-hungry AI data centers will require the UK to burn more fossil fuels.
CNN’s Anna Cooban contributed reporting. See more
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