Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much the AI Security Institute spent on compute in 2025-26.

The AI Security Institute spent £3.34 million on compute in the 2025-26 financial year (April 2025 to March 2026). This covered cloud compute for research including GPUs; the supporting infrastructure, tooling and services needed to run the Institute's technical work; and access to AI models through paid application programming interfaces (APIs). Compute is essential to the Institute's world-leading research and testing of frontier AI. Expenditure varies from year to year and is expected to grow as the Institute's research expands to keep pace with advancing model capabilities.