While popular AI models such as ChatGPT are trained on language or photographs, new models created by researchers from the Polymathic AI collaboration are trained using real scientific datasets. The models are already using knowledge from one field to address seemingly completely different problems in another.

•    £36 million investment to increase the AI Research Resource supercomputing capacity at Cambridge sixfold by spring 2026. •   More cutting-edge AI chips will be available free of charge to UK researchers and start-ups. •   The supercomputer is already helping to deliver breakthroughs in areas like healthcare and environmental modelling.

A new initiative will harness the latest advances in artificial intelligence for weather prediction, with a goal of improving climate resilience and food security in West Africa. 

Researchers have developed a wearable, comfortable and washable device called Revoice that could help people regain the ability to communicate naturally and fluently following a stroke, without the need for invasive brain implants.