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Money for UK supercomputer plan ‘needs to be in billions’, says Javid

Former chancellor warns modest investment will leave Britain lagging its US and EU rivals

Britain’s £900mn plan to build a supercomputer to boost research in artificial intelligence is far too modest and will leave the country lagging rivals, former chancellor Sajid Javid warned on Tuesday.

Javid told the London Tech Week conference that “billions” should be invested in the project to provide 10 times the capacity of the “exascale” machine promised by Jeremy Hunt, current chancellor, in his March Budget.

Hunt announced £900mn of funding to implement the recommendations of an independent “Future of Compute” review for the supercomputer, saying that “AI needs computer horsepower”.

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