Nvidia says it will donate compute access valued at $250 million over five years for research into the safety and security of AI agents in the United Kingdom. The commitment amounts to $50 million in compute access each year. Most is intended for the wider UK AI safety and security research community.
A portion will support work with the British Open-Ended Learning and Discovery Lab, known as BOLD, the Science of Fundamental AI Research Lab, known as SOFAIR, and Imperial College London.
BOLD, led by the University of Oxford, studies ways for AI systems to learn, adapt and work alongside people. SOFAIR, led by UCL, explores open source AI architectures and ways to make AI easier to develop and deploy. Imperial’s work will include safety engineering and robotics.
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Nvidia says researchers will access the compute through UK-based Nvidia Cloud Partners, using infrastructure hosted in the UK. The company has not named the providers or said when researchers can begin using the compute.
The research programs will examine secure agents, open-model security and ways to address real-world threats. They will also support secure testing environments, reproducible research and benchmarks for assessing safety. Nvidia says some research will use its OpenShell runtime software and Sentry reference design.
The pledge follows Nvidia’s work with the UK research community on the University of Bristol’s Isambard-AI supercomputer, which uses Nvidia Grace Hopper Superchips. Nvidia says it still needs to agree on provider selection, technical architecture and commercial terms for the new initiative.
