📈 Data to start your week

$100 bn server farms ↑ Grad jobs ↓ Alzheimer's ↑ Deep$eek < GPT-4

Hi all,

Here’s your Monday round-up of data driving conversations this week – 10 stats, in less than 250 words.

Let’s go!

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1. Sovereign AI? ↑ US tech firms pledged $42 billion in the UK last week, 1.5x all the venture capital invested there in 2023.

2. H-1B visa price ↑ The US has announced a $100,000 fee for H-1B visas. Roughly 8-9% of tech workers depend on them.¹

3. Server backup ↑ OpenAI plans to spend $100 billion on backup servers over the next five years to avoid compute shortages.

4. Elon’s catching up ↑ xAI is narrowing the compute gap with OpenAI and is on track to overtake Anthropic and Meta.