ARIA's £50M Scaling Trust Arena picks partners, targets 2027 launch for agent testing
DavideCrapis · x · 2026-09-16
ARIA's £50M Scaling Trust programme shared an update on its Arena: a cyber-physical testbed for secure multi-principal multi-agent coordination.
- Goals: measure state of the art in multi-agent coordination under adversarial pressure, observe emergent secure agentic interactions, and evidence critical failure modes
- Partners selected via open call: Andon Labs, Amodo Design, and BT6
- The Arena will be a physical UK space going live in early 2027; an initial spec draft is open for feedback
- Public competitions will pit submitted agentic systems against each other, with top performers rewarded from a multi-million pound prize pool; interest registration is open
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