Artificial Intelligence: Research
(asked on 9th October 2026) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what the oversubscription ratio was for each AI Research Resource access route in each call; and how many awards were made under each.
Answered by
Kanishka Narayan
Minister of State (Cabinet Office) (Jointly with the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Technology)
The Government has committed £1.3 billion to expand the AI Research Resource (AIRR), providing researchers and innovators with free access to world-class AI compute. The oversubscription ratio and number of awards made for each research call for the period 17 July 2025 to 6 October 2026.
Access route | Applications | Awarded projects | Ratio |
Sovereign AI AIRR Launch opportunity | 294 | 9 | 32.7:1 |
Gateway | 961 | 785 | 1.2:1 |
Rapid Access | 183 | 165 | 1.1:1 |
AI for Science | 72 | 22 | 3.3:1 |
Innovator | 61 | 19 | 3.2:1 |
AI Open Access | 205 | 20 | 10.3:1 |
Sovereign AI Fund | 370 | 22 | 16.8:1 |