Britain set up its AI Security Institute in 2023 to probe the risks in frontier models. The country’s newest AI body has a different brief, putting those models to work against biological threats, and as much as two-thirds of its backing comes from the companies that make them.

The AI Biosecurity Lab gets £100 million in government money. OpenAI and Anthropic have committed up to £200 million more, in the form of access to their own systems. OpenAI is putting in £100 million in compute and model credits, and Anthropic’s pledge of up to £100 million covers model credits, trusted model access and technical support, the Cabinet Office said.…