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UK Government Commits £100 Million to AI Biosecurity Lab
The lab involves OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind as the UK AI Security Institute formalizes and scales its existing frontier-model evaluations.

The UK government is committing £100 million to an AI biosecurity lab involving OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind. The project addresses risks associated with AI, with a focus on biosecurity.
The facility will help the institute expand its evaluation work on frontier AI models. The institute’s earlier partnerships with the three companies included biosecurity red-teaming and safety research.
Separately, NVIDIA’s commitment to UK AI safety research provides $250 million in computing access over five years.