UK government pledged £1B for BritGPT training, then nothing happened for 1.5 years
menhguin · x · 2026-09-10
A thread recalls that the British government once announced plans to spend around £1 billion training a homegrown LLM, BritGPT — and 1.5 years later the project has produced nothing. Commenters joke that DeepMind remains the UK's only real AI success story, calling the contrast hilarious.
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