Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to support the development of artificial intelligence supercomputers to encourage increased investment in artificial intelligence in the UK.

As outlined in the AI Opportunities Action Plan the Government committed to increase the UK’s AI compute capacity by twentyfold by 2030. At the Spending Review, we committed £1 billion to deliver this expansion, positioning the UK as a leader in high-performance AI computing, driving global innovation and scientific discovery. This will build on the capacity coming online this summer through the initial phase of the AI Research Resource, which is made up of 6,500 state of the art AI chips.