From the lab

In a world first, optical computing company Lumai™ is set to deploy a rack-scale optical AI inference cluster in the Scaling Inference Lab, demonstrating that optical computing can reliably execute large language model (LLM) workloads at scale.

Callosum has closed a $100M seed round to accelerate development of its heterogeneous orchestration technology, which is being validated at the Scaling Inference Lab.

Oriole Networks announces their PRISM optical fabric will be deployed at the Scaling Inference Lab, bringing nanosecond-level circuit reconfiguration to Cluster 3.

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

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

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.

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