The $5.5tn US chipmaker said the donation, spread over five years, would “support agentic safety and security research across the UK”. The announcement comes amid rising concerns about AI agents—autonomous programs capable of designing and executing sequences of tasks—after OpenAI confirmed in the summer that a “swarm” of its agents had attacked a tech startup.
Most of the computing power will go to the wider UK AI safety and security research community, while a portion will support the British Open-Ended Learning and Discovery Lab, the Science of Fundamental AI Research Lab (run by the universities of Edinburgh, Cambridge, Oxford and University College London), and Imperial College London.
“The UK brings world-class scientific rigour to this essential engineering challenge,” said Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s chief executive. “With this $250m commitment, Nvidia will put accelerated computing in the hands of UK researchers to develop, test and strengthen safeguards for increasingly powerful AI.”
The UK government separately confirmed that its AI Security Institute (AISI) will now be able to examine advanced technology from companies including OpenAI, Anthropic and Google before release. Kanishka Narayan, the UK’s AI minister, called the Nvidia donation a “vote of confidence in our world-leading strength and expertise in AI research”.