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ARIA Scaling Compute Programme

Supports United Kingdom compute and data infrastructure research toward scalable analytics applications with social impact.

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ARIA Scaling Compute Programme sits under the Advanced Research and Invention Agency and is aimed at AI infrastructure and compute. It is a large ARIA bet, with a stated programme size of about £50 million and a joint link to CommonAI's Scaling Inference Lab.

The programme is a grant route with awards from £500,000 to £16 million and a median award around £3 million. It is a one-off decision rath…

Max award£16M
Realistic median£3M
Success rate10–20%
Decision time—

No upcoming rounds verified. Cadence: One-off.

Last verified: 11 May 2026Source: aria.org.uk