It’s great to see this proposal is now gaining traction. We need to make sure that we think carefully about how an AI institute is designed, because it really matters. [...] It should provide fair access to massive high-performing computational power, a sustainable cloud infrastructure, funding for research with AI and AI training programmes for researchers in all disciplines to explore and adopt AI in their sciences. [...] We advised in April that a distributed model would bring many advantages and avoid some of the pitfalls of a single monolithic entity. (2024) source Unverified