Post by Danilo McGarry

Most people think AI is an American story. It is not. It is a British one. Geoffrey Hinton is British. DeepMind was founded in London. AlphaFold, the breakthrough that compressed decades of biological research into a single model, happened here. The world's first government AI safety institute is here. The researchers who left British labs went on to co-found OpenAI, build Mistral, and run Microsoft's entire consumer AI division. Britain trained the people who built the industry. Then watched them get credited elsewhere. I wrote a full article on this. It covers the complete story, from DeepMind's London origins to the 20 people actively fighting for Britain's AI future right now. It is the story most people in this industry have never heard told properly. Matt Clifford Harry Stebbings Brent Hoberman Carolyn Dawson James Wise Kanishka Narayan MP TS Anil, Michele Attisani, Dame Clare Barclay DBE, Euan Blair, Richard Browning, Alexandra Depledge, MBE, Rick Haythornthwaite, Julia Hoggett, Tom Hulme, Alison Rose DBE, Gyve Safavi, Sir Martin Sorrell, Louis Taylor CBE