AI
OpenAI Datacenters Follow The Money To Abu Dhabi
All things being equal, you probably would not build a 5 gigawatt datacenter on Earth in the desert near the equator. …
Stargate
AI
Oracle Has Some Big Advantages To Mainstream AI
Oracle’s cloud may be been in the running to be the host of a massive AI training system for Elon Musk’s xAI startup, with a purported $10 billion in rentals at stake. …
AI
What A Tangled OpenAI Web We CoreWeave
Wouldn’t it be funny if all of that money that Microsoft spent last year paying neocloud upstart CoreWeave was just to support ever-embiggening AI training workloads at OpenAI as it makes its GPT models smarter? …
AI
OpenAI Declares Its Hardware Independence (Sort Of) With Stargate Project
The dependency dance between AI pioneer OpenAI and the Microsoft Azure cloud and the application software divisions of its parent company are fascinating to watch. …
Compute
Microsoft Stargate: The Next AI Platform Will Be An Entire Cloud Region
The first thing to note about the rumored “Stargate” system that Microsoft is planning to build to support the computational needs of its large language model partner, OpenAI, is that the people doing the talking – reportedly OpenAI chief executive officer Sam Altman – are talking about a datacenter, not a supercomputer. …
Cloud
Japanese Startup Floats Bare Metal And Hybrid HPC Cloud
There aren’t a whole lot of HPC companies in Japan these days, especially when you consider how prominently the country figures in the global supercomputing community. …