UK to invest 300M pounds in 2 AI supercomputers, Harris presses for AI safety

cointelegraph.com:

The United Kingdom announced on Nov. 1 after the conclusion of the first day of its global “AI Safety Summit” that it will increase funding for two artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputers to 300 million pounds ($363.57 million).

These supercomputers, also known as the “AI Research Resource” are intended to support research into creating safer advanced AI models, which was the primary topic of the summit. 

In a post on X the U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak commented that as frontier AI models become more powerful, this investment will, “make sure Britain’s scientific talent have the tools they need to make the most advanced models of AI safe.”

Frontier AI models are becoming exponentially more powerful.

This investment will make sure Britain’s scientific talent have the tools they need to make the most advanced models of AI safe.

It cements our position as a world-leader in AI Safety https://t.co/07zqNDmkbp

The two new supercomputers will give U.K. researchers more than 30 times the capacity of the country’s current largest public AI computing tools. The computers should be up and running by summer 2024. 

This development also bolsters the U.K.’s quickest computer which will be the Isambard-AI. It will be built by Hewlett Packard Enterprise and equipped with 5,000 advanced Nvidia AI chips.

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The second machine called “Dawn” will be created with Dell and powered via 1,000 AI chips from Intel. In August, it was reported that the U.K. spent $130 million on AI chips.

According to the U.K.'s announcement Isambard-AI will be able to compute over 200 ‘petaflops’, or 200,000,000,000,000,000 calculations (200 quadrillion) each second.

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