ChatGPT developer OpenAI has revealed plans to bolster its British workforce after securing its first permanent London office less than a week after halting plans for a major UK data centre project.<\/p>\n
The US technology giant said the new office in King\u2019s Cross will have capacity for 544 workers and is set to open next year.<\/p>\n
OpenAI currently has about 200 staff in the capital in areas such as research, engineering, customer support, policy, communications, marketing and sales.<\/p>\n
It said it would look to grow its UK teams in these areas.<\/p>\n
But the plans for its new office follows last week\u2019s news that it was shelving its Stargate UK project, which was due to based across a number of sites including Cobalt Park near Newcastle and in the Northumberland town of Blyth \u2013 a so-called AI growth zone.<\/p>\n
It said energy costs and regulation were holding back investment and said the plans would be put on ice until the \u201cright conditions\u201d allow for long-term investment in the UK\u2019s infrastructure.<\/p>\n
The plans for Stargate came as part of a landmark tech deal between Britain and the US, announced last September amid President Donald Trump\u2019s second state visit.<\/p>\n
But OpenAI insisted the office opening reflects its \u201clong-term commitment to the UK\u201d, with the group having recently said it wants London to be its largest research hub outside the US.<\/p>\n
Phoebe Thacker, OpenAI\u2019s global head of data research programmes and London site lead, said: \u201cThe UK has an incredible depth of talent and a strong track record in AI.<\/p>\n
\u201cLondon is already a key hub for our research and teams, and this new office gives us the space to keep building here.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re seeing real momentum in how businesses, developers and institutions across the UK are using AI, and we want to support that growth.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis investment reflects our long-term commitment to the UK and the role it can play in shaping how AI is developed safely and used to benefit people all over the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
The office will span 88,500 square feet at Regent\u2019s Quarter in King\u2019s Cross \u2013 an area which also houses Google\u2019s head office and its soon to open \u00a31 billion European HQ, which will be home to its DeepMind AI division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ChatGPT developer OpenAI has revealed plans to bolster its British workforce after securing its first permanent London office…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[6099,27,1187],"class_list":{"0":"post-12938","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-kings-cross","9":"tag-london","10":"tag-openai"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116397008658186537","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}