Exclusive: OpenAI's £100 million for the UK's AI Biosecurity Lab is spread over five years
The UK government announced OpenAI's commitment without saying how long it runs. An OpenAI spokesperson told RuntimeWire the compute and model credits are spread over five years and come with trusted access to OpenAI's most capable relevant models through its Rosalind Biodefense programme.
By Emerson Redding · Published · Updated
Primary source: gov.uk
Why it matters
Two-thirds of the AI Biosecurity Lab's £300 million headline backing comes as credits from OpenAI and Anthropic, not cash, and the government published no terms. The five-year term on OpenAI's £100 million is the first detail on how long that support lasts and how much computing it can buy each year.
OpenAI's £100 million commitment to Britain's new AI Biosecurity Lab is made up of compute and model credits spread over five years, plus trusted access to its most capable relevant models through its Rosalind Biodefense programme, according to an OpenAI spokesperson.…
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