Nvidia boss Jensen Huang to meet Technology Secretary Liz Kendall

Nvidia brag Jensen Huang is to conscionable Technology Secretary Liz Kendall connected Wednesday, Sky News understands.

The US machine hardware institution is the biggest supplier of AI chips successful the world, and is targeting the UK arsenic a cardinal country for growth.

Mr Huang is successful Britain to talk to the Cambridge Union Society connected Tuesday evening, and person an grant astatine the Queen Elizabeth Prize of Engineering connected Wednesday.

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Sir Keir Starmer and his authorities person besides identified AI information centres - specifically successful the alleged "AI Growth Zones" (AIGZ) arsenic a imaginable country of maturation for the UK economy.

And immoderate large announcement, including investment, could assistance the Treasury up of adjacent month's budget.

However, concerns astir the interaction of an accrued adoption of AI - including astir occupation losses - person been raised, particularly arsenic the authorities wants to find £45bn successful the civilian work utilizing the technology.

Nvidia announced a £2bn concern successful the UK successful June astatine a gathering with the premier minister, and successful September Mr Huang told Sky News the UK was connected the cusp of a caller concern revolution.

"This is the location of the origins of artificial quality and immoderate of the brightest minds successful AI are here," helium told Sky News concern and economics analogous Gurpreet Narwan earlier this year.

Nvidia precocious became the archetypal institution to beryllium valued astatine $5trn (£3.8trn), much than the UK's yearly GDP.

Ms Kendall has lone been exertion caput for astir 2 months, pursuing the furniture reshuffle successful the aftermath of Angela Rayner's resignation.

She has met Mr Huang before, and volition beryllium looking to cement a narration with a antheral worthy much than £100bn.

Sir Keir volition not beryllium contiguous astatine the acme arsenic helium volition beryllium travelling to the COP acme successful Brazil.

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Last week, Ms Kendall welcomed the £4bn concern successful the UK by information centre institution Equinix - though this was not for an AIGZ.

So far, 2 sites for these maturation zones person been announced - 1 successful Culham, Oxfordshire, and 1 successful Blythe, Northumberland.

Details connected much sites are expected soon, with zones expected to beryllium confirmed successful Scotland, Wales and perchance Northern Ireland arsenic the authorities looks to dispersed concern astir the UK.

Ahead of the meeting, manufacture sources person said they privation to cognize much from the authorities astir the imaginable locations of the adjacent question of zones, and what benefits they volition really bring.

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One insider besides called for the authorities to instrumentality much enactment connected vigor prices they accidental are "extremely prohibitive" to Sir Keir's extremity of becoming an AI "superpower".

Nvidia declined to comment.

The authorities has been approached for comment.