Nvidia commits $250M of compute to UK AI safety research

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Nvidia has committed $250M over five years to UK agentic safety and security research, in the form of compute access rather than cash. Provider selection and commercial terms have still to be agreed.

Nvidia has committed $250M to British AI safety research over the next five years. The commitment is compute access, not cash, and none of it has been contracted.

It works out at $50M of compute a year, the company said, delivered through UK-based Nvidia Cloud Partners with the infrastructure hosted in Britain.

Nvidia says provider selection, technical architecture and commercial terms are all still to be agreed. The donation is valued at $250M rather than priced at it.

Most of the compute goes to the wider UK safety community. A proportion goes to BOLD at Oxford, SOFAIR at UCL, and Imperial College London, which will work on safety engineering and robotics.

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