Nvidia pledges $250 million to UK AI safety research
Source: CNA
Published on: 2026-10-14 07:27
LONDON, Oct 14 : US chipmaker Nvidia has pledged $250 million worth of computing resources to Britain over five years, to fund AI security research, bolstering the country's ambitions to become a global centre for AI governance and security. While Britain is not home to any major AI developers, it is seeking a leading role in evaluation and managing the risks posed by AI systems, partly through its AI Security Institute, one of the world's first state-backed bodies set up to assess the technology. Nvidia's founder and CEO Jensen Huang said on Wednesday that the UK would receive accelerated computing resources worth $50 million annually. They would be dedicated to agentic safety testing and help British researchers strengthen safeguards for increasingly powerful AI. "AI capability and safety must advance together," he said. "This is how the UK turns research leadership into real-world...
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