Early-stage investment firm Anthemis and Cambridge AI Venture Partners have together launched CommonAI, a collaborative engineering and computing platform for AI-enabled startups, enterprises, engineers, academics and investors.

Aiming to turbocharge the UK and European AI innovation ecosystem, it seeks to tackle the key challenges and barriers startups and enterprises face, allowing them to innovate safely and cost effectively, reduce their reliance on Big Tech and secure strategic investment.

At the heart of the initiative is a non-profit engineering organisation – Common AI CIC – which will co-develop foundational AI IP in partnership with its members. The platform additionally provides access to CommonAI Compute Ltd – a facilitator of cost-effective GPU resource.