📺 Global television network, CGTN Europe, commissioned a special 30 minute episode on Isambard-AI last year, which aired on their Razor Science Show last month. ▶️ Razor Science Show: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmWm...

Inside One of the World's Most Powerful AI Supercomputers And How It's Saving Lives

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There have been many memorable moments over the course of the past year since the UK's most powerful AI supercomputer, Isambard-AI, launched. Our latest article reflects on Isambard-AI's first year through a conversation. 🗞️ www.bristol.ac.uk/research/cen...

2026: One year of Isambard-AI | Research | University of Bristol

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Introducing Node to Node, a video podcast series by BriCS, unearthing the projects, policies and ideas shaping AI in the UK. 🎧 ▶️ Listen and watch: lnkd.in/eNVJnad9 @simonmcs.bsky.social

One year ago, Isambard-AI powered up ⚡ 🎩 Since then, the UK's sovereign AI supercomputer has powered around 1,000 research projects for more than 4,000 users. Read: www.bristol.ac.uk/research/cen... Watch: youtu.be/Day4mE4uQBM @bristoluni.bsky.social

One year of Isambard-AI: July 2025-2026

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🎬 CASE STUDY: Cancer pathology assisted by AI This team have used Isambard-AI to create a computational pathology system that aligns AI and clinical reasoning. ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNAd... @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social @simonmcs.bsky.social

Isambard-AI is powering the UK's first frontier LLM, built by Cosine 🇬🇧 🎩 'Lumen Sovereign' is being developed for organisations that want control over where models run, how data is governed, and how systems are deployed. @bristoluni.bsky.social

Amazing speaker line-up for 'From Compute to Community: How Isambard-AI Can Accelerate Startups and Shape the AI Ecosystem' 🎤 NVIDIA - Steve Davey Jessica Driscoll. Cosine - Niall Devlin. Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. BriCS - Emma, Andy and Rich Operating waitlist!

We are honoured to receive a National Infrastructure Excellence Award from The UK Cancer Vaccine AI Scientist & Supercomputing Project 🏆 This award recognises the exceptional infrastructure and expertise provided by the team behind Isambard-AI

🎬 CASE STUDY: Detecting Alzheimer's with a simple blood test 🧠 Dementia is the number one killer of people in the UK and it’s extremely hard to fight with medical interventions. But that’s all about to change. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KbO...

It was a genuine pleasure to welcome one of our largest users, AI Security Institute, to Isambard-AI yesterday. The world's first state-backed AI security organisation meets the UK's most powerful supercomputer 🇬🇧 💪 Watch our latest case study with AISI Red team: www.youtube.com/watch?v=of2l...

📢 Department for Science, Innovation and Technology have announced that the University of Oxford and UCL will host new AI labs and develop the next generation of AI. ⚡Both institutions will be awarded time on Isambard-AI and other AIRR facilities. 🗞️Read more: www.gov.uk/government/n...

UK backs new AI labs to make technology cheaper, more reliable and easier to use

Oxford and UCL to host new government-backed labs developing the next generation of AI that more businesses and services can readily use

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Isambard-AI is the 13th fastest supercomputer in the world and retained its position as the 4th greenest supercomputer. ⚡ Powered by entirely renewable UK based sources ❄️ Uses direct liquid cooling (DLC) 🍃 Cut construction emissions by 72% Top500: lnkd.in/eecX-V_b Green500: lnkd.in/eJT2bVNN

Hewlett Packard Enterprise produced a video podcast about the efficiency considerations made when designing and building Isambard-AI. ⚡Powered by renewable energy ❄️Efficient direct liquid cooling 🍃Low emission build Read more: www.bristol.ac.uk/research/cen... ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTaH...

2026: Inside Isambard-AI | Research | University of Bristol

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🎩 The BriCS team have built and deployed an open, sovereign software stack designed to give the UK long-term control over its AI infrastructure, while remaining flexible enough to evolve with a rapidly changing technology landscape. 👉 www.bristol.ac.uk/research/cen...

🎬 CASE STUDY: AI Security Institute This team, as part of the UK Government, is looking at "data poisoning" - attacks where malicious data is hidden within the trillions of words and numbers used to train AI. ▶️ youtu.be/of2lgW6aBfY @bristoluni.bsky.social @simonmcs.bsky.social

Whilst the Anthropic situation continues to evolve, it has served as a reminder that AI is strategic infrastructure, subject to similar geopolitical considerations as energy, telecommunications, semiconductors and defence technologies. Full post on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/lumen-...

Today at London Tech Week, our Director, @simonmcs.bsky.social, sat down with Claire Thorne from Deep Science Ventures, for a session called 'Isambard-AI - Tackling Humanity's Biggest Challenges.' The session covered many themes from project build and funding to software stack and agentic users 💡

Exciting! £750m in funding announced for the UK's AI Research Resource (AIRR), from the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology. An opportunity for the UK to build more powerful supercomputers - exciting for Bristol, as we have the experts and the experience. www.gov.uk/government/p...

UK AI Hardware Plan

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UK PM Keir Starmer spoke at London Tech Week yesterday, making several exciting announcements. The key theme was partnership: government, industry, and academia working together to make the UK the best place in the world for tech and AI. Read more 🗞️👇 www.gov.uk/government/s...

Prime Minister’s speech at London Tech Week 2026

Prime Minister Keir Starmer's speech at London Tech Week 2026.

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🎩The BriCS team are looking forward to attending London Tech Week next week at the Olympia in London. 💡The week will be all about the tech industry, offering exciting opportunities, connections and insights to those who attend. Find out more about the event below 👇 londontechweek.com

London Tech Week 2026 | The ultimate tech experience

Join London Tech Week 2026 (8-12 June) for cutting-edge innovations, world-class speakers, and unrivalled networking. Be part of the future!

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Pioneering research from the University of Oxford made the headlines this week👀 This exciting project is using AI to develop personalised cancer vaccines. #MRC funding will support its next phase, including equipment to manufacture experimental mRNA cancer vaccines. 👉 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Personal cancer vaccines using AI gets research funding in Oxford

Researchers use AI supercomputers to compare vasts amount of data in search for personal vaccines.

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Would compute from Isambard-AI help push your project to it's full potential? Each project can apply for between 50,000 and 1,400,000 graphics processing unit (GPU) hours on the Isambard-AI supercomputer, to be used over a six or 12-month project. 👉 www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

AIRR compute opportunity: AI open access

Apply for between 50,000 and 1,400,000 graphics processing unit (GPU) hours on the Isambard-AI supercomputer for artificial intelligence (AI) related research and development projects.

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🎬CASE STUDY: Ensuring LLMs value human cooperation. We will increasingly hand over decision-making to LLMs and we must do all we can to ensure they act with our best interests at heart. Research collab between Geodesic Research and the UK's AI Security Institute. ▶️ youtu.be/PiXtHvKeSC0

The BriCS team are beyond proud (but not surprised) that our Chief Technology Officer, Sadaf Alam, and our Director, @simonmcs.bsky.social have both been recognised in the Scientific Computing World 'SCW75' list 🎩 www.scientific-computing.com/scientific-c...

🎩 Last night, the BriCS team were delighted to attend the launch of the UK's Sovereign AI Fund, hosted by Tramshed Tech in Cardiff. 📢 The Sovereign AI Fund is the UK Government's new £500 million venture fund committed to backing Britain's AI founders, and BriCS are proud to support this!

CASE STUDY: Using AI to spot the earliest signs of disease in farm animals before they even show physical symptoms, allowing early intervention and cures. ▶️ youtu.be/p0WzurIUSuc

🎬CASE STUDY: Pollution modelling for the UK. David Topping and his team are using Isambard-AI to create a high-resolution pollution modelling framework, open to all, supported by NVIDIA. ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgRo...

Delighted to give the Premier of Sarawak and colleagues from SMD Semiconductor a tour of Isambard-AI this week. This new strategic partnership with Sarawak, Malaysia, is a part of strengthening University of Bristol's role in global semiconductor innovation. Image credit: UKAS

Big news from Prague! #CSCS has been named a Virtualization Visionary at #SUSECON26. We unified our VM and Kubernetes operations with SUSE, giving scientists faster, more reliable access to research tools and enabling continued innovation: bit.ly/3QEJ6df. Kudos to the CSCS team!

Find us at CUG2026 next week: ssl.linklings.net/conferences/... 🗓️Sunday 26th - Programming Environment, Applications and Documentation (PEAD) 🗓️Monday 27th - Tutorials 1C and 1D 🗓️Thursday 28th - Technical sessions 1B and 6C