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UK Unveils TechFirst AI Skills Drive and £1 Billion Compute Investment

The programme’s combination of skills training for one million students and 7.5 million workers by 2030 with a £1 billion boost in AI computing power reflects the government’s ambition to lead in artificial intelligence.

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Overview

  • TechFirst allocates £187 million across four strands, including £24 million for TechYouth to train one million secondary pupils and funding for scholarships, PhD grants and regional innovation support
  • Google, Microsoft, IBM, Nvidia, BT and Amazon have pledged to provide free training materials to equip 7.5 million UK workers with essential AI skills by 2030
  • Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced an extra £1 billion to scale the nation’s AI compute capacity twentyfold by the end of the decade
  • Nvidia will establish a UK AI lab and co-found the SovereignAI Industry Forum with leading British firms to strengthen domestic infrastructure and support startups
  • The government introduced Extract, an AI assistant powered by Google’s Gemini model, to digitise planning documents and speed up local council decisions