The current UK government is taking a hands-on, interventionist approach to backing strategically important AI companies, a departure from the typically hands-off approach of previous governments.

The UK government's current AI strategy aims to ensure that AI companies not only start in the UK but also stay and scale within the country.

The UK government is using venture capital and investment professionals, rather than civil servants, to select which AI startups to back.

Anthropic recently released a new model which is a version of the widely discussed 'Mythos' model.

Meryem Arik warns that the UK will be forced to ration AI if the country does not focus on developing efficient inference technologies.

Doubleword is conducting research on the UK's Isambard supercomputer to improve its efficiency for producing tokens.

Meryem Arik observes that Anthropic currently has slightly wider adoption among businesses, whereas OpenAI has stronger consumer traction.

A common pattern for UK tech companies is to start in the UK but then move to and scale in the US, where their customers are primarily located.

Meryem Arik argues the current AI boom is not a speculative bubble because it is supported by record-breaking revenue growth from companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, and NVIDIA.

In Q1, London and the UK saw a record $5.8 billion in venture capital investment into AI startups.

Doubleword is predominantly VC-backed and has not taken direct monetary investment from the UK government, only compute resources.

The UK government has provided a compute allocation to Doubleword.

Meryem Arik believes the high cost of tokens will become a significant issue for AI adoption in the UK, exacerbated by the country's high energy bills.

The UK government recently announced a £1.1 million fund to procure compute for building more supercomputers in the country.

Uber exhausted its entire 12-month AI budget in the first four months of the year, by April, due to the high cost of AI adoption.

Doubleword is part of a $500 million sovereign AI fund established by the UK government.

The high cost of AI is a particularly acute problem in the UK due to the country's high energy costs.

Doubleword is committed to building its R&D tech hubs in London to leverage the local talent pool.

Meryem Arik is concerned that a change in the UK government will lead to a change in the ministers at the Department of Science and Technology.