Center for AI Safety (CAIS) — infrastructure: Compute cluster with 256 NVIDIA A100 GPUs available for AI safety researchers

NoteThe source directly confirms the claim's core assertion: CAIS operates a compute cluster with 256 A100 GPUs. The source text explicitly states 'We have set up a compute cluster of 256 A-100 GPUs with 80GB memory and 1,600 Gbit/s inter-node network speeds.' The source is from a Wayback Machine capture dated March 15, 2023, which is prior to the claim's 'as of 2024' timeframe. However, the claim does not specify that the infrastructure was newly acquired in 2024—only that it exists as of 2024. The source confirms the infrastructure exists and matches the specification exactly (256 NVIDIA A100 GPUs). The additional context about providing compute to safety researchers who lack institutional access is also confirmed by the source's description of the initiative as providing 'free compute support for research projects in ML safety' to 'researchers who are working on the safety of machine learning systems.'