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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Robert Booth UK technology editor

OpenAI signs deal with UK to find government uses for its models

The OpenAI chief executive, Sam Altman.
The OpenAI chief executive, Sam Altman. Photograph: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters

Sam Altman, leader of one of the world’s biggest artificial intelligence companies, has signed a deal with the British government to explore the deployment of advanced AI models in areas including justice, security and education.

The chief executive of OpenAI, which has been valued at $300bn (£220bn) and provides the ChatGPT suite of large language models, agreed the memorandum of understanding with the science and technology secretary, Peter Kyle, on Monday.

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