UK government launches £500,000 open source AI fund with compute resources and developer board
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The UK government has announced a package of measures to support open source AI developers, including a £500,000+ compute fund providing 160,000 GPU-hours from the UK's AI Research Resource, a mentoring scheme pairing Hack for Impact winners with government AI experts, and a new Open-Source AI Dev Board giving ten UK-based developers under 30 direct access to government roundtables chaired by AI Minister Kanishka Narayan. The initiatives aim to help innovators turn prototypes into public-service AI tools across sectors from libraries to the NHS.
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bskyUK government launches £500,000 open source AI fund with compute resources and developer boardbriefly.coKey quotes
· 3 pulledThe Open-Source AI Builder Fund will provide more than £500,000 in compute, including 160,000 GPU-hours from the UK's AI Research Resource
A new Open-Source AI Dev Board will give ten UK-based developers under 30 a direct line into government
The Hack for Impact hackathon, held with Nvidia, brought hundreds of developers using City of London open data to address public services and city infrastructure challenges
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