Daryl
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incredibly bullish on the future of tech + AI in London. just to name a few: • OpenAI just announced (last week) that London will become its largest research hub outside San Francisco • Anthropic kicked off a 100+ person hiring spree across London and Dublin in 2025 • xAI set up shop in London in early 2025, based in X's former Piccadilly office, led by former DeepMind researcher Toby Pohlen • Microsoft hired 24+ researchers from Google DeepMind for its London AI hub • Google DeepMind announced its first automated research lab in the UK (opening 2026), focused on discovering new materials using AI and robotics • Perplexity committed £80M to expand London offices • Groq is opening its first UK data centre in London • Cursor chose London as its European HQ



My wife and I earn much, much less than this and live a reasonably comfortable life with our 2 small children. If you feel poor on this salary then your lifestyle has clearly got out of hand, whatever the no doubt illogical vagaries of the tax system
















