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The UK employs almost a quarter (24%) of all AI workers in Europe, ahead of Germany (14%) and France (12%). Its AI economy was worth £72 billion in 2024 according to UK government figures, employing over 362,000 workers, and 3,700 AI companies directly employed 60,000 people in 2024. This increased to 5,800 companies by September…
Although the USA and China are the current artificial intelligence (AI) superpowers, Germany actually employs 14% of all AI workers in Europe, second only to the UK, which employs 24% of them. There are over 900 AI startups in Germany at the time of writing, up from 687 in 2024. The main clusters are in…
When we think about leaders in artificial intelligence (AI) we typically think of the USA or China, or possibly Japan. However, France is also emerging as an important part of the AI landscape. France has national ambitions to become a leading AI power. A national AI strategy was launched in 2018, with two government agencies…
Japan has a strong history in artificial intelligence (AI), dating back to the 1960s. As far back as 1967, Shun’ichi Amari proposed a way to enable neural networks to self-adjust the way that they categorise patterns through repeated training examples. This was one element that led to backpropogation, a key development in AI. Geoffrey Hinton,…
India is the most populous country in the world, with well over 1.4 billion people, slightly more than China. With its economy at over $4 trillion and growing at 6.5%, it is the fourth largest economy in the world (after the US, China and Germany, having overtaken Japan) and is on course to be the…
From the invention of gunpowder to the machine gun and tank, the military has always been an early adopter of the latest technological innovations. Computing has had a major impact on warfare ever since Alan Turing’s Bombe machine was used to crack the German Enigma cyphers in World War II. The driverless taxis from Waymo…
As well as impacting many different industries, AI has the potential to be used in various areas of the public sector. In the UK, for example, 18% of all jobs are in the public sector, and the proportion is large in other countries too – 16% in the USA, 20% in France, 29% in Sweden.…
Artificial intelligence (AI) has long been a subject portrayed in movies, from ground-breaking films like Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927) to the robot character Gort in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) and the lovable Robbie in Forbidden Planet (1956). In recent times, we have seen the artificial intelligence HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey…
There are very few aspects of life that artificial intelligence (AI) is not embedding itself into, and the sports industry is no exception. There are many different use cases appearing, from athlete training to sports analysis, through to television coverage. When the marathon runner Tola Tamirat crossed the finish line in the 2024 Paris Olympics,…
The mining industry may not be the first that we think about when it comes to cutting-edge technology, unless it is the edge of a drilling rig. However, artificial intelligence (AI) is having an impact on mining just as it is having on more obviously high-tech industries like life sciences. It is a trillion-dollar industry…