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Non-profit and independent labs do AI research outside companies and government departments, often on public-interest questions such as security, safety and fairness. The Alan Turing Institute, which calls itself the national institute for data science and AI, works on AI assurance and security, including a fairness toolkit for small firms, and builds the FastNet weather model with the Met Office. The AI Biosecurity Lab, announced in October 2026, is an independent non-profit studying AI-related biological threats, backed by £100 million of government money and up to £200 million from OpenAI and Anthropic.

Context

  1. The government describes the AI Biosecurity Lab as the world's first dedicated AI biosecurity organisation. 24 October 2026 gov.uk/government/news/introducing-the-ai-biosecThe AI Biosecurity Lab will be the world's first dedicated AI biosecurity organisation.
  2. The lab is backed by £100 million of government funding and up to £200 million in commitments from OpenAI and Anthropic. 24 October 2026 gov.uk/government/news/introducing-the-ai-biosecBacked by £100 million of government funding, and up to £200 million in company commitments from OpenAI and Anthropic.
  3. The AI Biosecurity Lab will run as an independent non-profit organisation. 24 October 2026 gov.uk/government/news/introducing-the-ai-biosecAIBL will operate as an independent, non-profit organisation.
  4. Under DSIT's AI Fairness Innovation Challenge, the Alan Turing Institute was to create a fairness toolkit for small firms and developers. 6 February 2024 gov.uk/government/news/ai-fairness-innovation-chThe Alan Turing Institute will create a fairness toolkit for SMEs and developers
  5. FastNet, a machine-learning weather model, is being developed by the Met Office and the Alan Turing Institute. accessed 31 October 2026 metoffice.gov.uk/research/approach/modelling-sysFastNet is a machine learning weather prediction model being developed by the Met Office and The Alan Turing Institute.

Labs Round 8 (31 Oct 2026): introduction and facts as the researchers wrote them; "(per the site)" marks a sentence resting on this site's own description of that lab.

RecordWhat it isPlaceLinksConfidence
AI Biosecurity Lab (AIBL)Networks, bodies, events and mediaIndependent non-profit, modelled on the AI Security Institute, studying AI-related biological threats; part of the National AI Biosecurity Initiative. launched
Profile
Owner or parent
set up by the UK government under a National AI Biosecurity Initiative (Cabinet Office release); to run as an independent non-profit
Founded or opened
announced 24 Oct 2026
Lab director or lead
Not stated (no leader named)
What it does
A new independent non-profit, set up by the UK government and modelled on the AI Security Institute. It will build technical capability to understand, prevent, detect and respond to biological threats, using AI. Its first work is earlier detection of new biological threats and faster development of vaccines, treatments and other countermeasures. A scientific advisory committee will guide it.
Research groups or focus
"Enhance early detection of emerging biological threats"; faster vaccines, treatments and medical countermeasures
Funding or budget as published
£100m from the UK government; up to £200m from OpenAI (£100m in compute and model credits, plus access through its Rosalind Biodefense programme) and Anthropic (up to £100m in model credits, model access and technical support) — 24 Oct 2026 — https://www.gov.uk/government/news/introducing-the-ai-biosecurity-lab (already DEAL-LAB-2021)
Partners named
UK Health Security Agency, Animal and Plant Health Agency, Dstl, MHRA — government partners; Google DeepMind and Basecamp Research — research and AI-for-science tools — Oct 2026
Uk government links
Cabinet Office release; National AI Biosecurity Initiative; builds on the UK Biological Security Strategy
Status now
Announced on 24 Oct 2026; no leader or location has been named.

Labs Round 8 deep profile (31 Oct 2026), as the researchers wrote it; confidence: verified (GOV.UK and Tech.eu).

Sources

  1. gov.uk/government/news/introducing-the-ai-biosec
  2. tech.eu/2026/10/26/uk-government-launches-ai-bio
tech.eu/2026/10/26/uk-government-launches-ai-bio · gov.uk/government/news/introducing-the-ai-biosecone source
AI Research Centre for Defence (ARC-D), Dstl and The Alan Turing InstituteSchemes, programmes and AI linesA London centre set up by Dstl and the Alan Turing Institute to do defence AI research with UK universities. launched (current status not verified)Key facts First named the Defence Centre for AI Research (DARC); expected to create at least 5 to 8 new academic posts from September 2022; funded through the MOD Chief Scientific Adviser (amount not published); research themes: learning from little data, AI for war gaming, limits of AI models, managing multiple sensors, human-centric AI, ethics (all as of 2022-07-14)launched 2022Londongov.uk/government/news/launching-the-defence-cenone source
AI Security Institute (AISI)Networks, bodies, events and media · also on SafetyGovernment research body within DSIT that tests advanced AI models and funds alignment and safety research; £66m a year.
Profile
Owner or parent
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (AISI is a DSIT directorate)
Founded or opened
Not stated on the About page. A GOV.UK release of 6 Nov 2024 calls the then AI Safety Institute "the world's first government body dedicated to AI safety". The name "UK AI Security Institute" was adopted in 2025 (exact date not given).
Lab director or lead
Henry de Zoete OBE — Director (formerly the Prime Minister's AI Adviser) — About page read 31 Oct 2026; start date not stated. Adam Beaumont signed the 22 Dec 2025 review as "Director".
Other leaders
Ian Hogarth — Chair; Jade Leung — Chief Technology Officer (also the Prime Minister's AI Adviser; formerly led Governance at OpenAI); Nate Burnikell — Chief Strategy Officer; Chris Summerfield — Research Director (leads the Human Information Processing Lab, Oxford); Geoffrey Irving — Chief Scientist (GOV.UK release of Nov 2024, page updated 16 Oct 2026); Oliver Jones — Deputy Director for Strategy and International (NPL launch page)
Headcount
"100+ technical staff", plus policy, operations and strategy teams — About page, read 31 Oct 2026 — https://www.aisi.gov.uk/about (single source)
What it does
A UK government body inside DSIT that studies risks from advanced AI. It tests frontier models before release, builds open-source evaluation tools such as Inspect, funds outside research and publishes its findings. Its research areas are cyber misuse, safeguards, alignment, control, autonomy, human influence and societal resilience. It tested more than 30 frontier models in 2025.
Research groups or focus
Cyber Misuse; Safeguards; Alignment; Control; Autonomy; Human Influence; Societal Resilience; Control Red Team (Jul 2026)
Notable outputs
Inspect, InspectSandbox, InspectCyber, ControlArena, RepliBench, Transect (already on site); Frontier AI Trends Report — first public edition (covers models to Oct 2025); found "universal jailbreaks for every single system we've tested"; preliminary assessment of Kimi K3's cyber capabilities with the US CAISI — 23 Jul 2026; incident report on unsanctioned agent behaviour in cyber testing — 4 Aug 2026
Selected papers (AISI research page; no venue stated)
"Consistency Training Can Entrench Misalignment" — AISI — 2 Jun 2026 — https://www.aisi.gov.uk/research/consistency-training-can-entrench-misalignment ; "Multi-Agent AI Control: Distributed Attacks Hamper Per-Instance Monitors" — AISI — 8 Jul 2026 — https://www.aisi.gov.uk/research/multi-agent-ai-control-distributed-attacks-hamper-per-instance-monitors ; "Item Response Theory for AI Safety" — AISI — 5 Aug 2026 — https://www.aisi.gov.uk/research/item-response-theory-for-ai-safety ; "Knowing When to Stop: Bayesian Optimal Stopping for LLM Evaluations" — AISI — 14 Aug 2026 — https://www.aisi.gov.uk/research/knowing-when-to-stop-bayesian-optimal-stopping-for-llm-evaluations ; "Evaluating Whether GPT-6 Astra Performs Unsanctioned Supply-Chain Attacks" — AISI — 28 Sep 2026 — https://www.aisi.gov.uk/research/evaluating-whether-gpt-6-astra-performs-unsanctioned-supply-chain-attacks ; "Transect: Retaining Observability for Long-Horizon LLM Agent Evaluations" — AISI — 7 Oct 2026 — https://www.aisi.gov.uk/research/transect-retaining-observability-for-long-horizon-llm-agent-evaluations ; "ReproBAIT: Can coding agents build their own biological AI tools?" — AISI — 26 Oct 2026 — https://www.aisi.gov.uk/research/reprobait-can-coding-agents-build-their-own-biological-ai-tools ; "The Effectiveness and Durability of Pretraining Data Filtering in Protein Language Models" — AISI — 26 Oct 2026 — https://www.aisi.gov.uk/research/the-effectiveness-and-durability-of-pretraining-data-filtering-in-protein-language-models
Funding or budget as published
"£66m in funding per financial year"; priority access to over £1.5bn of compute through the AI Research Resource and exascale programme; able to mobilise over £15m in grants — About page, read 31 Oct 2026 — https://www.aisi.gov.uk/about (single source). 2025 grants: £15m Alignment Project, £8m Systemic Safety Grants, £5m Challenge Fund — 22 Dec 2025. Alignment Project total £27m (incl. £12m new) — 19 Feb 2026.
Partners named
Google DeepMind — new research MoU — 11 Dec 2025 (BIZ-SAFE-2085); ElevenLabs — voice AI security — 18 Feb 2026 (BIZ-SAFE-2087); Microsoft — high-risk capability evaluation, safeguards, societal resilience — 5 May 2026 (BIZ-SAFE-2086); Australian AI Safety Institute — 25 May 2026 (BIZ-SAFE-2090); Germany — joint statement — 30 Jun 2026; National Cyber Security Centre — frontier AI for cyber defence — 31 Mar 2026; US CAISI — joint Kimi K3 assessment — 23 Jul 2026; METR — independent review after the incident — Aug 2026; GitHub — incident response — Aug 2026
Uk government links
DSIT directorate; NCSC work (Mar 2026); international network for advanced AI measurement, evaluation and science (met in Seoul, Jul 2026)
Status now
Active under Director Henry de Zoete; on 26 Oct 2026 it published two biosecurity studies.

Labs Round 8 deep profile (31 Oct 2026), as the researchers wrote it; confidence: verified (AISI pages and GOV.UK); director change, headcount and budget one source.

Sources

  1. aisi.gov.uk/about
  2. aisi.gov.uk/blog/our-2025-year-in-review
  3. gov.uk/government/news/ensuring-trust-in-ai-to-u
  4. aisi.gov.uk/frontier-ai-trends-report
  5. aisi.gov.uk/blog/incident-report-unsanctioned-ag
  6. aisi.gov.uk/blog/funding-60-projects-to-advance-
  7. aisi.gov.uk/blog/partnering-with-microsoft-to-st
Why it is here: a government research organisation inside DSIT with over 100 technical staff that publishes its own AI research
Selected papers (12)
  1. The Effectiveness and Durability of Pretraining Data Filtering in Protein Language Models AISI research · 26 October 2026 Where it is listed
  2. ReproBAIT: Can coding agents build their own biological AI tools? 26 October 2026 Where it is listed
  3. Transect: Retaining Observability for Long-Horizon LLM Agent Evaluations 7 October 2026 Where it is listed
  4. Evaluating Whether GPT-6 Astra Performs Unsanctioned Supply-Chain Attacks 28 September 2026 Where it is listed
  5. Knowing When to Stop: Bayesian Optimal Stopping for LLM Evaluations 14 August 2026 Where it is listed
  6. Item Response Theory for AI Safety 5 August 2026 Where it is listed
  7. Multi-Agent AI Control: Distributed Attacks Hamper Per-Instance Monitors 8 July 2026
  8. AISI Frontier AI Trends Report (2025) AISI report · 18 Dec 2025AISI's first public, evidence-based assessment of how the most advanced AI systems are changing.
  9. Measuring what Matters: Construct Validity in Large Language Model Benchmarks arXiv preprint · 3 Nov 2025one sourceA review of 445 AI benchmarks (AISI co-authored, presented at NeurIPS 2025) examined how well they measure what they claim to measure.
  10. Poisoning Attacks on LLMs Require a Near-constant Number of Poison Samples arXiv preprint · 8 Oct 2025About 250 planted documents were enough to plant a hidden backdoor in language models of every size tested.
  11. RepliBench: Evaluating the autonomous replication capabilities of language model agents AISI paper (PDF on AISI site; NeurIPS 2025) · 21 May 2025A benchmark of tasks needed for an AI agent to copy itself found current models are not yet a credible self-replication threat.
  12. Fundamental Limitations in Pointwise Defences of LLM Finetuning APIs arXiv preprint · 20 Feb 2025Checking fine-tuning requests one at a time cannot reliably stop people misusing a model's fine-tuning service; one of ten AISI papers at NeurIPS 2025.
Key facts and news (10)
Headcount
Over 100 technical staff (read 2026-10-31); over 30 technical researchers (2024-05-20) aisi.gov.uk/blog/fourth-progress-report
Chief executive
Adam Beaumont, Director (as of 2025-12-22) aisi.gov.uk/blog/our-2025-year-in-review
Chief scientist
Geoffrey Irving, Chief Scientist (2024-10-03) one source aisi.gov.uk/category/organisation
Research leads
As of 2024-05-20: Jade Leung (Chief Technology Officer); Research Directors Geoffrey Irving, Chris Summerfield, Yarin Gal (current roles not re-checked) one source aisi.gov.uk/blog/fourth-progress-report
Status now
Renamed from AI Safety Institute to AI Security Institute on 2025-02-14; describes itself as a research organisation within DSIT aisi.gov.uk/
Outputs
Frontier AI Trends Report (December 2025): more than 30 frontier systems tested since November 2023; apprentice-level cyber task success rose from under 9% (late 2023) to about 50%; universal jailbreaks found for every system tested aisi.gov.uk/frontier-ai-trends-report
Leadership
Director: Henry de Zoete; Adam Beaumont signed the December 2025 review as director.

News

Labs Round 8 (31 Oct 2026), from the researchers' rows; one-source items are marked.

aisi.gov.uk/about · gov.uk/government/news/ensuring-trust-in-ai-to-u · aisi.gov.uk/blog/fourth-progress-report · aisi.gov.uk/blog/our-2025-year-in-reviewverified
British Antarctic Survey AI Lab (Polar Artificial Intelligence team)Networks, bodies, events and mediaA team at the British Antarctic Survey that builds AI tools to forecast sea ice and track icebergs and wildlife from satellites.Key facts 8 people listed on the team page (read 2026-10-31); projects: IceNet (began 2019 with the Alan Turing Institute; active development ended December 2025), Nilas sea ice forecasts (field trials on RRS Sir David Attenborough, December 2025), AI for Earth Observation (1 Sep 2021 – 31 Mar 2026), AI for Smart Conservation, Digital Twins of the Polar Regions; work continues under the BAS PolarSim programme
Models and products (2)
  1. IceNet (BAS and Alan Turing Institute sea ice forecasting model) 2025-12 development ended; code and papers remain openA deep learning system that forecasts Arctic sea ice month by month, up to six months ahead.
  2. Nilas (BAS medium-range sea ice forecasting system) 2025-12 in development; field-trialledA machine learning system that gives 1-to-15-day sea ice forecasts for ships in polar seas.
Cambridgebas.ac.uk/team/science-teams/ai-lab/ · bas.ac.uk/project/icenet/verified
Centre for Long-Term Resilience (CLTR)Networks, bodies, events and mediaA London think tank that researches extreme risks from AI and biology and advises the UK government.Key facts Non-profit company registered in England and Wales; focus areas AI risk, biological risk, government risk management; 2026 outputs include "Priorities for the UK Government on frontier AI risk and Biosecurity" (2026-09-09), "AI loss of control incidents are worsening, shows CLTR analysis" (2026-08-29), "AI and the systemic management of risk – what the frontier labs can learn from business" (2026-09-24); relies on voluntary donations and takes no government funding (read 2026-10-31)Londonlongtermresilience.org/ · longtermresilience.org/the-team/one source
Dstl AI and data science research (Defence Science and Technology Laboratory)Networks, bodies, events and mediaThe Ministry of Defence's science laboratory, which runs defence AI and data science research with universities, industry and allies.Key facts Defence Data Research Centre formed 2022, led by University of Exeter with Liverpool, Surrey and Digital Catapult (2022-06-23); AI and data science unit opened in Newcastle at the National Innovation Centre for Data (2022); SAPIENT AI-and-autonomy sensor standard published as BSI Flex 335 (as of 2024-08-15); UK AI algorithms processed data on US maritime patrol aircraft for the first time under AUKUS Pillar II (2023-12-15); Dstl–EPSRC AI sandpit: 60 attendees, 2 projects funded, incl. AiTASHA, £1.25m over 2 years, led from the Alan Turing Institute (2026-02-16)gov.uk/government/news/dstl-launches-defence-dat · gov.uk/government/news/dstl-ai-success-with-aukuverified
Francis Crick Institute AI (Chief AI Scientist and Software Engineering and AI team)Networks, bodies, events and mediaA biomedical research institute building AI into its biology research, led by a newly appointed Chief AI Scientist.Key facts Mihaela van der Schaar appointed Chief AI Scientist, alongside her Cambridge chair (news dated 2026-06-24 in page URL); in-house Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence team of software and machine learning engineers uses deep learning to automate large-scale data analysiscrick.ac.uk/news/2026-06-24_mihaela-van-der-scha · crick.ac.uk/research/platforms-and-facilities/soone source
Health Data Research UK (HDR UK)Networks, bodies, events and mediaA UK health data research charity that published an AI strategy for health research in 2026.Key facts Registered charity 1194431; AI Strategy published with four priorities: scale AI learning across data infrastructures, AI signature projects, trustworthy AI, aligned communities of practice (2026-03-23); Jonathan Sterne named Chief Scientist from June 2026, succeeding Cathie Sudlow (2026-05-22); Andrew Morris described as inaugural Director; funders listed: MRC, NIHR, British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK, ESRC, EPSRC, Health and Care Research Wales, Chief Scientist Office, HSC Public Health Agencyhdruk.ac.uk/news/hdr-uk-ai-strategy-enabling-tru · hdruk.ac.uk/news/jonathan-sterne-to-be-chief-scione source
IceNet (BAS and Alan Turing Institute sea ice forecasting model)Chips, models and productsA deep learning system that forecasts Arctic sea ice month by month, up to six months ahead. development ended; code and papers remain openKey facts Paper: "Seasonal Arctic sea ice forecasting with probabilistic deep learning", Nature Communications 12, 5124, published 2021-08-26; began 2019 as a joint BAS–Alan Turing Institute development; code released via icenet.ai and GitHub (icenet-ai)Made by British Antarctic Survey AI Lab (Polar Artificial Intelligence team) · 2025-12past model; code openCambridgebas.ac.uk/project/icenet/ · nature.com/articles/s41467-021-25257-4lab's own pages
Nilas (BAS medium-range sea ice forecasting system)Chips, models and productsA machine learning system that gives 1-to-15-day sea ice forecasts for ships in polar seas. in development; field-trialledKey facts Probabilistic forecasts 1–15 days ahead at 6.25 km resolution; combines AMSR2 satellite sea ice data with ECMWF AIFS-ENS weather forecasts; trialled aboard RRS Sir David Attenborough in December 2025; built with the University of Cambridge (page modified 2026-10-30)Made by British Antarctic Survey AI Lab (Polar Artificial Intelligence team) · 2025-12Cambridgebas.ac.uk/project/nilas/one source
Open Data Institute (ODI)Networks, bodies, events and mediaA non-profit founded by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Sir Nigel Shadbolt that researches the data AI systems depend on.Key facts Founded 2012; independent of government; funded through commercial work and grants from philanthropic and government bodies (as read 2026-10-31)theodi.org/about-the-odi/one source
The Alan Turing Institute (AI assurance and security work)Networks, bodies, events and media · also on Safety, Networks and mediaResearch institute whose AI work includes the TEA assurance platform, assuring third-party AI for national security, a fairness toolkit and LASR.
Profile
Owner or parent
independent national institute; described by UKTN as "a government-funded, non-profit organisation"
Founded or opened
2015
Lab director or lead
Professor Mark Girolami — acting CEO (and Chief Scientist) — from Jan 2026 (The Register, 22 Jan 2026). A permanent CEO appointment is a lead, not verified (see Gaps).
Other leaders
Dr Doug Gurr — Chair; Blythe Crawford — former RAF Air Commodore, commissioned to advise the board on defence and security (Oct 2025); Dr Scott Hosking — Mission Director for Environmental Forecasting (Jul 2026); Chris Burr — Principal Research Scientist (NPL launch panel); Dr Jean Innes — former CEO (stepped down end of 2025)
What it does
The UK's national institute for data science and AI. After a July 2025 letter from then-Science Secretary Peter Kyle, it narrowed its focus to defence, national security and sovereign capabilities, and closed, spun out or completed 78 research projects. It plans a mission on defending critical national infrastructure, and it co-develops FastNet, an AI weather model, with the Met Office.
Research groups or focus
defence, national security and sovereign capabilities (Jan 2026); a mission to defend critical national infrastructure such as energy, transport and utilities against cyber attacks; environmental forecasting
Notable outputs
FastNet — machine-learning weather model co-developed with the Met Office — paper Jul 2026 (record BIZ-LAB-6008)
Selected papers
FastNet paper (title not stated on the Met Office page) — Artificial Intelligence for the Earth Systems, vol. 5 issue 3 — Jul 2026 — https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/aies/5/3/AIES-D-25-0090.1.xml
Funding or budget as published
DSIT to guarantee overall funding for one year and national security and defence funding for the following three (no amounts) — 22 Jan 2026 — https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/22/turing_institute_acting_ceo/ (trade; single source); Meta $1m for a public-sector AI fellowship — 2025 (record BIZ-BIG-020)
Partners named
Met Office — AI4NWP partnership from 2023, FastNet; Meta — fellowship funding — 2025
Uk government links
core funding from DSIT; Peter Kyle's July 2025 letter on refocusing; board adviser on defence and security (Oct 2025)
Status now
Under acting CEO Mark Girolami since January 2026 and refocused on defence and national security; a permanent CEO appointment appears in search titles but is not verified.

Labs Round 8 deep profile (31 Oct 2026), as the researchers wrote it; confidence: one source (trade sources only; turing.ac.uk refused every fetch).

Sources

  1. computerweekly.com/news/366633598/Alan-Turing-In
  2. theregister.com/2026/01/22/turing_institute_acti
  3. uktech.news/ai/ceo-of-britains-national-ai-body-
  4. uktech.news/ai/alan-turing-institute-appoints-ra
  5. metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/news-and-media/media-c
Models and products (2)
  1. FastNet (Met Office and Alan Turing Institute) 2026-07-08 in development (not operational)A machine-learning weather model built by the Met Office and the Alan Turing Institute to forecast global weather up to two weeks ahead.
  2. Aardvark Weather (end-to-end AI weather prediction) 2025 (Nature vol. 641; Turing blog 20 Mar 2025) research (Nature paper)AI system that goes straight from raw weather observations to forecasts, replacing the traditional forecasting pipeline with one model.
Selected papers (2)
  1. End-to-end data-driven weather prediction (Aardvark Weather) arXiv preprint · 30 Mar 2024joint paperAardvark Weather showed one machine-learning model can replace the whole traditional weather-forecasting pipeline; Turing co-authored with Cambridge, Microsoft Research and others.
  2. Seasonal Arctic sea ice forecasting with probabilistic deep learning (IceNet, with British Antarctic Survey) Nature Communications · 26 August 2021
Key facts and news (12)
Founded
2015, as the national institute for data science turing.ac.uk/about-us
Founders
Universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, UCL and Warwick, with EPSRC turing.ac.uk/about-us
Offices
Headquarters in the British Library, London turing.ac.uk/about-us
Funding as published
Year to 31 March 2024: income £45m (2022-23: £52.5m); expenditure £53m; £20.4m from Research Councils, of which £18.7m from EPSRC; charity number 1162533; chair Dr Douglas Gurr, CEO Dr Jean Innes turing.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2024-08/the-ala
Status now
Dr Jean Innes to step down as CEO as the transformation programme ends; the Institute to expand work on defence, national security and sovereign capabilities, plus selected environment and health projects (2025-09-04) turing.ac.uk/news/dr-jean-innes-step-down-ceo-al
UK government links
In July 2025 the then DSIT Secretary of State Peter Kyle wrote to chair Douglas Gurr asking for a refocus; non-defence work to be reoriented to sovereign AI capability (Computer Weekly, article undated, after September 2025) (trade) one source computerweekly.com/news/366633598/Alan-Turing-In
Chief scientist
Mark Girolami, chief scientist; also described as acting CEO in a later undated article referring to July 2025 (trade) one source computerweekly.com/news/366637589/Alan-Turing-In
Research leads
Turing 2.0 directors appointed (early 2024, article undated): Marc Deisenroth (Environment and Sustainability), Andrew Duncan (Fundamental Research), Aldo Faisal (Health), Tim Watson (Defence and National Security); special advisers Jon Crowcroft and Mike Wooldridge (trade; may be superseded by the 2025 restructure) one source computerweekly.com/news/366570015/Alan-Turing-In
Customers and partners
Dstl: AI Research Centre for Defence (ARC-D) launched with Dstl (2022-07-14); AiTASHA explainable-AI project for intelligence analysts, led by Richard Walters of the Turing, £1.25m over 2 years, from the Dstl–EPSRC sandpit (2026-02-16) gov.uk/government/case-studies/partnering-with-t
Models released
Environmental forecasting models: Aardvark Weather (with University of Cambridge and Microsoft Research, Nature 2025), FastNet (with the Met Office), IceNet (with British Antarctic Survey), DeepSensor software package one source turing.ac.uk/blog/democratising-environmental-fo
Leadership
Mark Girolami, acting chief executive since January 2026; the Institute has closed, spun out or completed 78 projects.

News

  • no date 2025 (after September; article undated) — new science and innovation programme: closure, spin-out or completion of 78 research projects; new mission to build tools to defend UK critical national infrastructure; board commissioned former RAF commodore Blythe Crawford to advise, recommendations due November (trade) one source computerweekly.com/news/366633598/Alan-Turing-In

Labs Round 8 (31 Oct 2026), from the researchers' rows; one-source items are marked.

gov.uk/ai-assurance-techniques · gov.uk/government/news/ai-fairness-innovation-ch · metoffice.gov.uk/research/approach/modelling-sys · turing.ac.uk/verified
Wellcome Sanger Institute AI genomics (Generative and Synthetic Genomics programme)Networks, bodies, events and mediaA genomics institute's research programme that pairs large-scale DNA experiments with machine learning to predict and design biology.Key facts Generative and Synthetic Genomics launched as the Institute's sixth research programme (2023-10-05), headed by Ben Lehner (Head of Generative Genomics; group page lists a lead and 17 core team members, read 2026-10-31), with supplemental Wellcome funding; Google DeepMind and Google.org commit US$5m a year to a new AI genomics consortium with Sanger over five years (2026-06-08); Google DeepMind Fellowship in Genomics and AI: one fully funded three-year fellow, call closed June 2026 (2026-03-04)sanger.ac.uk/news_item/predicting-and-engineerin · sanger.ac.uk/news_item/google-deepmind-google-orverified

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