"In front of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, many members of the British and US cabinets and the cream of the European tech industry, a highly-crafted video played, featuring the long history of UK science. It included George Stephenson, Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing and Sir Demis Hassabis, with dozens of UK start-up companies from every corner of the country listed."
"Huang shouted out the long list of British entrepreneurs Nvidia has taken stakes in and expanded after a further 2bn of investment. He invited Business Secretary Peter Kyle and his US counterpart Howard Lutnick on to the stage to address the assembled British entrepreneurs. Lutnick, the face of the global trade war, said: "We are America first, but we are not America only....we want to win, we want you to win.""
"This was one vignette from the striking array of the world's biggest Silicon Valley tech companies turning on the transatlantic investment tap. The "tech bromance" embraced the UK this week with a hat-trick of multi-billion investments from Nvidia, Microsoft and Google. It was an early win for the government's strategy in attracting this sort of investment to help transform Britain and the UK economy long term."
A high-profile Camden Town Hall event showcased UK scientific heritage voiced by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and highlighted dozens of British start-ups. Nvidia has expanded stakes in numerous UK entrepreneurs and committed a further £2bn investment after reaching a $4tn market value. Howard Lutnick emphasized cooperative commercial intent with the line: "We are America first, but we are not America only....we want to win, we want you to win." Major Silicon Valley firms, including Nvidia, Microsoft and Google, deployed multi-billion investments into the UK, offering an early win for efforts to attract transformative tech capital while leaving structural challenges to be addressed.
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