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The UK Compute Roadmap is a long-term national strategy for expanding the United Kingdom’s computing capacity to support AI research, innovation, and industrial development.

The UK Government's central AI strategy document, published in January 2025, setting out a comprehensive national agenda to secure the UK's position as a world-leading AI nation.

Government support initiative helping SMEs improve productivity and adopt digital technologies.

A national strategy designed to accelerate the application of artificial intelligence across scientific research and discovery in the United Kingdom.

The UK's national body for advanced AI safety and security research, model evaluation and international AI safety coordination. Originally established as the AI Safety Institute (AISI) in November 2023, it was renamed the AI Security Institute in January 2025 to reflect a broader mandate encompassing both safety and security risks from advanced AI systems.

AI Growth Zones are designated regions in the United Kingdom aimed at accelerating the development of AI infrastructure, including data centres and computing capacity, while fostering AI innovation ecosystems.

A government-led public AI compute capability (suite of AI-optimised supercomputers and gateways) to provide specialised compute to UK researchers, industry and SMEs for ambitious AI R&D.

A UK tax incentive allowing companies to elect a reduced 10% corporation tax rate on profits derived from qualifying patented inventions, including AI-enabled products and processes, to encourage the commercialisation and retention of intellectual property in the UK.

A unified UK corporation tax relief scheme replacing the previous SME and RDEC regimes, providing a 20% above-the-line expenditure credit for all companies, with an enhanced 27% payable credit for R&D-intensive loss-making SMEs (ERIS).

Free, flexible training courses of up to 16 weeks co-designed with employers, enabling adults to rapidly gain in-demand digital and AI skills, with a guaranteed job interview on completion.

The UK Government's wholly-owned economic development bank, whose equity and debt programmes provide growth capital to innovative UK businesses including AI and technology firms, operating through accredited fund managers and lenders rather than lending directly.

A landmark UK Act of Parliament, which received Royal Assent in May 2024, that gives the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) new strategic market status (SMS) powers to regulate the most powerful digital platform companies and introduces a new pro-competition regime for digital markets.

The UK National Data Library (NDL) is a government initiative to create a central infrastructure for the responsible management and sharing of public sector data, enabling businesses, researchers and public servants to access high-value datasets to deliver better public services, drive economic growth and support AI innovation.

Assist is a secure tool created in-house to support government communicators. It went live in April 2025, following the initial prototype launch in November 2023. The tool features pre-built, task-specific prompts to save users time. It enables communicators to brainstorm ideas, produce first draft communication products and review work in a fraction of the time it would otherwise take manually.

An application that allows users to use Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT) to generate draft Fraud Risk Assessments (FRA)s by reference to a defined set of source documents. This allows the UK's Public Sector Fraud Authority (PSFA), and external teams it collaborates with, to generate draft FRAs using Large Language Models (LLMs).

The Health Data Research Service (HDRS) is a new UK-wide, government-owned company to transform how researchers and innovators access health and care data across the UK.

The Regional AI Adoption Hubs are part of the UK Government's effort to drive AI adoption beyond London and the South East, supporting businesses across the country with tailored, regional guidance, funding and expertise to implement AI in their operations.

The AI Assurance Innovation Fund is a £11 million initiative to support the development of innovative and novel AI assurance mechanisms.

The UKRI AI Research and Innovation Strategic Framework is the first dedicated AI strategy for UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), the UK's largest public research funder.

The UK Sovereign AI Unit is a government body established within the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) to build and harness the UK's domestic AI capabilities.