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The AIRR was set up under the Conservatives, and saw two new supercomputers developed. Isambard-AI, based at the University of Bristol, will eventually contain 5,448 Nvidia GH200 superchips and offer 200 petaflops Linpack and 21 exaflops of AI compute.

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