{"id":83347,"date":"2023-08-21T11:57:20","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T08:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=83347"},"modified":"2025-09-12T10:36:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T07:36:21","slug":"britain-to-spend-130m-on-ai-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/britain-to-spend-130m-on-ai-chips\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain to spend $130m on AI chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The British authorities will spend \u00a3100 million (~$130 million) on AI chips used to process AI tasks. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/business\/2023\/08\/20\/sunak-spend-100m-taxpayer-cash-ai-chips-global-race\/\"> The Telegraph<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was taken as part of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak&#8217;s initiative to <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/uk-to-commit-100m-to-ai-development\">transform the country into an AI-tech hub<\/a>. There is currently a global chip shortage amid the race to boost computing power.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the Agency for Research and Innovation is at a late stage of ordering 5,000 GPUs from NVIDIA. Talks are also under way with AMD and Intel.<\/p>\n<p>The agency could seek an increase in funding at the AI Security Summit scheduled for November.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in May 2023, the UK&#8217;s Competition and Markets Authority <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/uk-antitrust-watchdog-to-study-ai-market\">initiated an investigation<\/a> into the AI industry.<\/p>\n<p>In April, Sunak announced a grant <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/uk-to-allocate-100m-for-sovereign-ai\">of \u00a3100 million<\/a> to stimulate the development of &#8216;sovereign AI&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British authorities will spend \u00a3100 million (~$130 million) on AI chips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[438,1295,810],"class_list":["post-83347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-chips","tag-united-kingdom"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"29","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83349,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83347\/revisions\/83349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}