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> “The ATI brand is well recognised internationally,” says Dame Wendy Hall, a professor of computer science at the University of Southampton and the co-chair of a 2017 government AI review. “If it ceases to be the national institute for AI and data science then we are at risk of weakening our international leadership in AI.”

'our [UK?] international leadership in AI' -> citation needed?

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DeepMind was founded in London, UK and still headquartered there, and is one of the leaders in the field..

Notable well-known things from DeepMind are AlphaGo (the first time a computer beat a world champion at Go), AlphaFold (resulting in a Nobel prize). Gemini (LLM, a variant of which is used in Google search results) and Gemma (open-weights LLMs).

They were acquired by Google, so you could argue they aren't centred in the UK any more, but I still think they qualify as international leadership in AI coming from the UK.

> They were acquired by Google, so you could argue they aren't centred in the UK any more [..]

They've been acquired. There's nothing left to argue.

I was reading earlier today about how Kuka AG, the German mechanical engineering company, was sold to a Chinese investor in 2016. A fascinating story:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KUKA

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