Nvidia Donates $250 Million in Computing Power to UK for AI Safety Research
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Updated · The Guardian · Oct 14
Nvidia Donates $250 Million in Computing Power to UK for AI Safety Research
3 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Oct 14
Summary
$250 million in Nvidia computing power will go to UK AI safety and security research over five years, backing work on safeguards for increasingly powerful AI systems.
The pledge coincides with UK confirmation that its AI Security Institute can test frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google before public release.
Nvidia said most of the support will go to the wider UK research community, with portions allocated to British Open-Ended Learning and Discovery Lab, the Science of Fundamental AI Research Lab and Imperial College London.
AI agent risks have drawn sharper scrutiny since summer, when OpenAI said a "swarm" of agents attacked startup Hugging Face, adding urgency to research on autonomous systems.