UPDATED: Watching Nvidia grow over the past two decades, from a gaming and visualization GPU supplier to the behemoth of the modern AI datacenter, has been nothing short of amazing. …
All things being equal, you probably would not build a 5 gigawatt datacenter on Earth in the desert near the equator. …
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. …
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? …
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. …
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. …
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. …
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