Short Stuff: Inside the UK’s Most Powerful AI Supercomputer

03/01/2026 21 min Temporada 2 Episodio 12
Short Stuff: Inside the UK’s Most Powerful AI Supercomputer

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In this episode, Kieren and Riku get a guided tour of Isambard-AI – the UK’s most powerful supercomputer, ranked 11th most powerful and 4th greenest in the world – with Professor Simon McIntosh-Smith and Dr Emma Rose from the Bristol Centre for Supercomputing. They explore how national-scale AI really runs, what all that compute is used for in areas like health and finance, and why building this kind of sovereign AI infrastructure matters for the UK’s future.Birds for Scale, Smarties is licensed under CC BY-SA. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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