UK government

“We recently won some investments from the government, where the, you know, the UK government will be investing five million pounds into businesses through, through Crowdcube for, you know, tech startups in London.”

“I think that the UK government and sort of regulatory bodies have also you know, been ahead of the curve really, and have fostered an ecosystem here. And have been very plugged in and kept the dialogue very open with entrepreneurs to the extent that we see, yo…”

“We ultimately created something called Help to Grow in the budget, which is, I hope, will be something that stays in this country for a very long time. That's a scheme to help small and medium-sized businesses get the management training they need, mini MBAs, …”

“So at the budget, we announced what I think of, Probably the most far reaching set of reforms to high school migration that we've seen in this country for years. So we said we're going to introduce an unsponsored visa, right? So it's not linked to a job. It's …”

“Our new task force, AI task force, which we should talk about as a hundred million pounds, which means that we're investing more in safety research for AI than any government anywhere in the world.”

“We're working with the companies themselves, DeepMind, Anthropic and OpenAI. I'm pleased that they've said that they will give early or priority access to the models.”

“We've got a special AI program that's deliberately targeting a hundred of the top global AI talents and trying to attract them here.”

“And what I did was increase our funding for AI masters conversion courses. So this is for people who are coming from non STEM backgrounds to develop masters level capability in AI competencies like data science. So we, and to make sure that universities develo…”

“In my view, it would be much, much, much better to take that same amount of money and put it into funder funds and put it into active venture.”

“That's why we came out in support of Apple. That's why other companies have come out in support of Apple in that situation. Despite the fact, as companies, we've had a lot of disagreements. We supported Apple in that.”