🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇳 On India’s Independence Day, at Cardiff Castle, I loved sharing themes that most capture the undertold story, interwoven with my own story, of Wales and India’s distinct connection. 🏏 𝐶𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑡: One of the first ever matches for the Indian national cricket team at Cardiff Arms Park in 1932 (luckily, a tie for all of us tested by Tebbit’s test!). A heritage continued by Sourav Ganguly and Ravi Shastri at Glamorgan. For me, personally, the most beautiful memories of a club homeground at Bassleg, the springboard for tours across Welsh village grounds. 👩‍⚕️ The care of a tight 𝑐𝑤𝑡𝑐ℎ: Nye Bevan’s vision of an NHS shared and carried by so many of Wales’ Indian diaspora. In the early 2000s, 70%+ of Rhondda and Cynon Valley’s GPs of Indian and South Asian heritage. In a moment of Wales’ deep tragedy - Aberfan - one of those Indian doctors, Dr Subrahmanyam, amongst the rescue medical team. The present day dignity of care recipients finding laughter alongside their Keralan carers. 🤝An extroverted 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑡ℎ: at a time of insular politics in so many places, two nations grounded not in the repudiation of another, but in the extraversion that says: we are stronger when we look outward. 💛 𝐶𝑦𝑛𝑒𝑓𝑖𝑛: a fierce pride in preserving our mother tongues, our cultures of storytelling, our lands of poets and singers, deepened alongside the pressures of modernity. ☀️ And, crucially, 𝐶𝑦𝑛𝑒𝑓𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑐ℎ𝑦𝑛𝑛𝑦𝑑𝑑: Belonging alongside progress. Two nations tied together not primarily by our past, but by two sets of people chasing the future. What is an ambitious future - on AI, on the future of steel, on vaccines, on care - that isn’t a Welsh-Indian future?

The British people must have a stake in building our tech future. That’s why we are building AI with British agency.

Asked at @ProspectUnion to define AI success: ▪️Reindustrialised communities across the UK, with well-paid, secure AI jobs ▪️Deep AI adoption that values workers’ tacit knowledge ▪️A tax base that sustains good public services and spaces ▪️Frontier AI serving dignity of job search

🚨 2 major new AI labs in the UK 🚨 3 months ago, we launched a £40m call for a fundamental AI lab in the UK. Given the exceptional bids we received, we have doubled down: 2 new AI labs, £60m seed funding. ▪️@BOLD_LAB_AI: led by @j_foerst, with an exceptional team of @CULLYAntoine, @shimon8282, @tonizza82, Ani Calinescu & @_rockt ▪️SOFAIR: led by Prof David Barber, with a world-leading team of Mirella Lapata, @yaringal and @LourdesAgapito The best of UK academia, government and industry, together, to make fundamental advances in AI 🚀 researchprofessionalnews.com…