Tim Bradshaw
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 10 Sep
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And I think, you know, the UK tech industry owes Demis Hassabis some thanks for keeping DeepMind there rather than moving himself and his team to San Francisco along with the rest of the Google crowd.
And so a lot of the folks that are now starting companies have spun out from there.
That has made King's Cross a real magnet for AI talent.
And so that's great in some ways that there's lots of money coming into King's Cross and that cluster exists.
But as you said at the beginning, this is still largely American money.
And a lot of the complaints that I hear from British or UK-based companies
AI founders and entrepreneurs is that actually extracting talent from those big tech companies is quite difficult because you have to pay very high salaries.
AI in general is a game of talent.
There is still a very small number of people in the world that actually know how to build AI and do that from scratch and make research breakthroughs.
And a lot of those people are in London.
So it's really just a question of whether these startups can incentivize some of those researchers to take a risk and leave the very deep
comfortable rich pockets of big tech.
Like 15 years ago, I was the first reporter to write down the nickname for London's tech scene, Silicon Roundabout, which was at the time kind of intended to be ridiculous and slightly self-parodying because it was such a small scale phenomenon compared to what was happening in Silicon Valley.
But there was nonetheless the sort of germ of an idea there of British startups kind of doing something interesting for the first time.
And to kind of see how far the UK has come in that 15 years that we are talking about companies that have raised hundreds of millions of dollars in their seed round is, you know, extraordinary progress for this country's tech scene.
And I don't think that should be dismissed lightly.
But it remains to be seen whether that is just the UK is being sort of carried up in this broader AI boom.
I think it is indisputably a good thing that these companies are being based here.
The other question that I hear from some folks in Westminster is that they would like
those companies to be truly British and truly sovereign.
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