Speaking at the start of London’s Tech Week, with a line-up of speakers including Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Starmer said: “In this global race, we can be an AI maker and not an AI taker.”
Ahead of the event bringing together industry giants, Starmer announced a government-industry partnership to train 7.5 million workers in AI skills, including in using chatbots and large language models to boost productivity.
Google EMEA region President Debbie Weinstein called it a “crucial initiative” essential for developing AI skills, unlocking AI-powered growth “and cementing the UK’s position as an AI leader”.
The UK has a “responsibility” to “harness this unprecedented opportunity and to use it to improve the lives of working people”, Starmer added.
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“We are putting the power of AI into the hands of the next generation -- so they can shape the future, not be shaped by it,“ Starmer said in a press release before the event.
He called it a “step change in how we train homegrown talent for the AI age”.
Starmer also announced a “commitment from Nvidia to partner on a new AI talent pipeline”, including through expanding a Nvidia lab in Bristol, southwest England.
It was growing 30 times faster than the rest of the economy, according to government figures from 2023 -- an “incredible” rate, according to Starmer.
Other speakers at the tech conference include the CEO of Mistral AI, Arthur Mensch, the UK’s Science Secretary Peter Kyle and Markus Villig, founder of ride-hailing app Bolt.
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