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The UK is investing £360 million in artificial intelligence, nuclear fusion and genetics to become a science ‘superpower’ by the end of the decade, Rishi Sunak will announce today.
As part of the commitment, the Government will also pledge to ensure researchers have access to the ‘best physical and digital infrastructure’ for research and development, to attract the best talent to this country.
The PM will say the UK ‘can only stay ahead with focus, dynamism and leadership’, and his ten-point plan promises to use post-Brexit freedoms to develop a ‘pro-innovation culture’ in the public sector.
As part of the programme, the Government will set up an exascale supercomputer facility.
An exascale computer can carry out one quintillion calculations a second. A quintillion is
