The government of United Kingdom has announced this week that Britain and OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, have entered into a new strategic partnership.

The partnership aims to enhance collaboration in AI security research and to investigate the possibility of investing in British AI infrastructure, including data centers.

Peter Kyle, the secretary of state for technology, stated in a statement that AI will be essential in facilitating the change that is required to be implemented throughout the nation, whether it be in the repair of the NHS (National Health Service), the removal of obstacles to opportunity, or the promotion of economic development.

“This cannot be accomplished without the support of companies such as OpenAI, which are spearheading this global revolution. This partnership will result in a greater amount of their work being conducted in the United Kingdom.”

The government has announced its intention to allocate 1 billion pounds to the development of AI computing infrastructure, with the objective of doubling the public compute capacity within the next five years.

The competition to develop AI is being led by the United States, China, and India, which is placing pressure on Europe to close the gap.

The company may expand its London office and investigate the potential for AI deployment in sectors such as education technology, defense, security, and justice, as a result of its partnership with OpenAI, whose previous collaboration with Microsoft attracted the attention of Britain’s competition regulator.

In the same statement, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman commended the government for being the first to acknowledge the technology’s potential through its “AI Opportunities Action Plan.”

The AI initiative was launched by Prime Minister Keir Starmer to transform the United Kingdom into an artificial intelligence superpower.

The Labour government, which has been unable to significantly boost economic growth in its first year in office and has since dropped in the surveys, has asserted that the technology has the potential to increase productivity by 1.5% annually.
This would be equivalent to an additional 47 billion pounds ($63.37 billion) annually over the course of a decade.