QuantumColleagues, an AI company based near Northampton, has been awarded 10,000 GPU hours on Isambard-AI, the UK’s national AI supercomputer at the University of Bristol. The award comes through the AI Research Resource (AIRR) programme. It is compute time only, valued at £23,500.

Over the next three months the company will test a range of open AI models against large volumes of synthetic care data. It will find which models suit care work best, and how to run them on a care provider’s own hardware. No real resident, staff or client data is used, and the company will publish what it finds.

QuantumColleagues already runs local AI safely with a care provider. Its lead product, Admin Core, is a crew of AI colleagues that runs the back office, and a person approves every action that carries consequence.

Jonathan Clark, Founder of QuantumColleagues, said: “Care providers hold some of the most sensitive data there is, and most of them want it to stay in the building. We already run local AI safely for a care client. Isambard-AI lets us find out, at a scale we could never reach on our own, which models do that job best and on what hardware. If firms want to be part of that at an early stage to take advantage of the insight it will bring, now is the time to get involved.”

An asset locked community interest company owns half of QuantumColleagues, so what clients buy funds free post-AI training.

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