Why the UK wants to partner with India’s AI innovators

In the last 18 months, the UK artificial intelligence (AI) sector has raised around £100 billion worth of private investment.

- David Lammy

That means jobs for hardworking communities, new opportunities for businesses to start up and scale up, and vital injections of cash to our economy. Opportunities not just for the UK but for our friends and partners around the world.The deep friendship between the UK and India is something we can both be immensely proud of. India is very special to me, personally. As foreign secretary, it was one of the first places I visited, and minister S Jaishankar was the first guest I hosted at Chevening House in England as we worked to solidify our revitalised trade relationship.

This week, I am back here representing the prime minister (PM) for the AI Impact Summit, a gathering of tech leaders and thinkers who are driving progress on this era-defining technology.

It feels fitting to be here in New Delhi to continue the international conversation that first began back home, at Bletchley Park, and later in South Korea and France.

The World War II code-breakers at an unassuming country house in South-East England changed the course of the war and the future of the world. And it was in that remarkable place, steeped in history and British innovation, where the world came together to talk seriously about the future of AI. And now that conversation has reached New Delhi — one of the great global capitals of technology and enterprise.