UK’s £225m AI supercomputer, Isambard-AI, launches in Bristol

Hopes 225m Isambard-AI in Bristol will unleash new era of technological, medical and social breakthroughs

Britain's new 225m national artificial intelligence supercomputer will be used to spot sick dairy cows in Somerset, improve the detection of skin cancer on brown skin and help create wearable AI assistants that could help riot police anticipate danger.

Scientists hope Isambard-AI - named after the 19th-century engineer of groundbreaking bridges and railways, Isambard Kingdom Brunel - will unleash a wave of AI-powered technological, medical and social breakthroughs by allowing academics and public bodies access to the kind of vast computing power previously the preserve of private tech companies.