"The government has announced it is ploughing £36m into the Dawn supercomputer, which will lead to a sixfold increase in performance and make it one of the most powerful supercomputers in the UK. Through the funding, Cambridge, which is home to Dawn, will be provided with advanced artificial intelligence (AI) chips, which the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) said would be made available free of charge to UK researchers and startups."
"This latest investment builds on Cambridge's position at the heart of the Oxford-Cambridge corridor. Dawn is based at the University of Cambridge, a part of the AIRR - a national programme that gives free access to the kind of high-powered computing usually only available to the world's biggest tech companies."
The government is investing £36m to upgrade the Dawn supercomputer, increasing its performance sixfold. Cambridge will receive advanced AI chips that DSIT said will be available free to UK researchers and startups. The funding forms part of an AI opportunities action plan backing British AI with over £2bn in public compute infrastructure. Plans include expanding the AI Research Resource (AIRR) twentyfold by 2030 and building a national supercomputer in Edinburgh. A government roadmap targets 420 Exaflops by 2030 to boost sovereign AI for scientific and economic goals. Dawn supports around 350 projects, including personalised cancer vaccine research and environmental studies, with extra AI processing due in Spring 2026.
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