UK to pour another £120M into AI model testing lab, 10x its US counterpart's budget
Miles_Brundage · x · 2026-10-29
Per Semafor, the UK plans to invest another £120 million ($160 million) into the government lab that tests the world's most powerful AI models. That single infusion alone is more than 10 times the annual budget of its US counterpart, underscoring Britain's outsized bet on AI evaluation infrastructure.
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