Suleyman said that the UK needed to foster a culture of risk-taking and encourage large-scale investments. 

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak wants the UK to be a global hub for AI. He has pledged 1 billion pounds in funding over the next 10 years, and founded a UK taskforce with a remit of maximising the benefits of the tech while keeping it safe. 

Suleyman said the UK had "every chance" of becoming an AI superpower and praised its research facilities, but added there were not the same opportunities for businesses to grow as there are in the US.

"I think the culture shift that it needs to make is to be more encouraging of large scale investments, more encouraging of risk taking, and more tolerant and more celebratory of failures," he said.

"The truth is, the US market is not only huge, but also more predisposed to big risk taking, taking big shots and having big funding rounds."

Suleyman has chosen to base his new company, Inflection AI, in Palo Alto, California, which is also home to the headquarters of Google, Facebook and Tesla.

Ian Hogarth, a British entrepreneur and investor who has been appointed to lead the UK's AI taskforce told the BBC that while the UK was a good place for start-ups, it should be easier for them to grow.

"We've had some great [tech] companies and some of them got bought early, you know - Skype got bought by eBay, DeepMind got bought by Google. I think really our ecosystem needs to rise to the next level of the challenge."