Britain stated on Wednesday it will enhance funding for 2 supercomputers. (Representational)
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Britain stated on Wednesday it will enhance funding for 2 supercomputers which is able to assist analysis into making superior synthetic intelligence fashions secure.
Funding for the “AI Analysis Useful resource” shall be elevated to 300 million kilos ($363.57 million) from a beforehand introduced 100 million kilos, the federal government stated at an AI security summit aimed toward charting a secure method ahead for the quickly evolving expertise.
“Frontier AI fashions have gotten exponentially extra highly effective,” British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak stated on social media platform X.
“This funding will be certain Britain’s scientific expertise have the instruments they should take advantage of superior fashions of AI secure.”
Britain stated two new supercomputers, one primarily based in Cambridge and one in Bristol, would give researchers entry to assets with greater than thirty-times the capability of Britain’s present largest public AI computing instruments.
The machines, which shall be operating from summer time subsequent 12 months, shall be used to analyse superior AI fashions to check security options, in addition to to drive breakthroughs in drug discovery and clear power, the federal government stated.
Bristol’s “Isambard-AI” will embody 5,000 superior AI chips from Nvidia in a supercomputer constructed by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, whereas the Cambridge machine “Daybreak” shall be delivered by means of a partnership with Dell and UK SME StackHPC and powered by greater than 1,000 Intel chips, Britain stated.
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