"The name might sound like a science fiction franchise, but Stargate UK is in fact Britain's most ambitious supercomputing initiative to date - a programme designed to provide the raw computing power needed to train the next generation of artificial intelligence (AI) models on British soil. Stargate UK takes its name from Stargate, the $500 billion US project announced earlier this year by OpenAI and SoftBank. That American initiative aims to build an unprecedented network of AI data centres capable of hosting trillions of operations per second, fuelling the world's most advanced generative AI."
"Britain's version is more modest in scale, but strategically vital. It is being positioned by the government as Europe's largest AI supercomputer effort - a joint partnership between Nvidia, the US chipmaker behind the world's most powerful AI processors; NScale, a British data-centre business; and OpenAI, the San Francisco-based creator of ChatGPT. The government hopes that Stargate UK will secure Britain's place as an "AI maker, not an AI taker", ensuring British researchers, startups and industries have direct access to cutting-edge computing power rather than relying entirely on US or Chinese capacity."
Stargate UK aims to create Britain’s most ambitious supercomputing capability to train next-generation AI models on domestic soil. The programme partners Nvidia, NScale and OpenAI to build large-scale GPU-based infrastructure intended to supply researchers, startups and industry with cutting-edge compute. The project draws its name from a larger US Stargate initiative and aims to position Britain as an "AI maker, not an AI taker" by reducing dependence on US and Chinese capacity. Training state-of-the-art models requires tens of thousands of GPUs and vast electricity consumption. The Isambard-AI system ran on about 5,500 GPUs, underscoring the scale upgrade represented by Stargate UK.
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