Beneath the brand new AI Alternatives Motion Plan, serial entrepreneur Matt Clifford has known as for the creation of a bunch of ‘AI Progress Zones’ dotted throughout the UK to draw clusters of AI experience, during which regular planning processes could be overturned in favour of a fast-track approval system.
The primary of those zones has already been named as Culham, Oxfordshire – house to the UK’s Atomic Power Authority and a stone’s throw away from a number of the UK’s high tech corporations resembling Oxford Nanopore, Oxa and Oxford Devices.
However the place may the opposite zones be? The workforce at UKTN have recognized three of the highest candidates for the initiative.
If Keir Starmer is searching for a spot to designate as an AI Progress Zone, he ought to definitely think about the North East. The area already has a burgeoning tech cluster in Newcastle and has important development potential. The UK’s second-largest tech firm, enterprise software program and fintech agency Sage, is already headquartered within the metropolis whereas different high corporations have important bases there too….
