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Britain’s DeepMind success may not bring its full benefits at home if promising AI businesses cannot find enough domestic capital. The Financial Times frames the shortage, and the pull of the US, as a threat to that dividend.

That is a pointed argument about what happens after research breakthroughs: whether the money to build businesses around them stays in Britain or heads elsewhere. The available account does not give figures or detail the proposed remedies, so this is a warning about the stakes, not a map of the funding gap.

Discuss: Should Britain prioritise keeping AI investment and companies at home, even if that means the state taking a larger role in financing them?

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