Press Release: Cluster 1 deployed and UK Gov announces new funding for The Lab
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Press Release 9 June 2026

Scaling Inference Lab deploys first cluster to cut AI infrastructure costs

Cluster 1 officially deployed alongside UK Government announcement of an additional £20m+ in funding to establish a world-class national AI compute testing capability.

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London Tech Week
Event London Tech Week

Accelerating AI Innovation: Infrastructure, Scale, and Sovereign Capability

Join CommonAI during London Tech Week for an evening exploring the future of shared infrastructure, and the next wave of innovation emerging across the UK ecosystem. A panel of leaders will discuss scalable AI infrastructure, sovereign capability, and what's needed to accelerate AI innovation in the UK.

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Jensen Huang
Press The Times

The Scaling Inference Lab featured in The Times

Coverage of how CommonAI's Scaling Inference Lab is positioning the UK at the frontier of AI inference research and deployment.

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Suraj Bramhavar
Podcast Scaling Europe

Suraj Bramhavar on the Scaling Europe podcast

Programme Director Suraj Bramhavar joins Scaling Europe to discuss the lab's mission, the inference bottleneck, and what it takes to scale AI at the frontier.

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Funding Tech Funding News

ARIA backs CommonAI's £50m inference lab to power UK AI scale-ups

The Advanced Research + Invention Agency backs CommonAI's Scaling Inference Lab with £50m to accelerate AI inference research for UK-based scale-ups.

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