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GCSE student gets $1m for AI start-up

A teenage boy sits on a carpeted floor next to a cello and an old iMac computer. In his lap he holds a modern Apple laptop.Bright young thing: Toby will be staying with a family friend in San Francisco — after he has fended off questions from his school friends about whether or not he is a millionaire.

Could he be the next Steve Jobs? At 16, Toby Brown has come up with an invention he hopes will revolutionise computing — and is heading to Silicon Valley to pursue his dream.