Posted on 03/30/2024 5:27:53 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Microsoft Corp. plans to build a supercomputer with millions of processors to support OpenAI’s research, The Information reported today.
The system will be geared toward running artificial intelligence workloads. Reportedly codenamed Stargate by Microsoft executives, the supercomputer is believed to be part of a broader initiative that is also set to see the company build several other AI clusters. The project is expected to cost as much as $100 billion.
OpenAI already uses Microsoft infrastructure to train its AI models. In 2020, the cloud computing and software giant disclosed that it had built an Azure-hosted supercomputer with 10,000 graphics cards to support OpenAI’s work. According to the companies, the system ranked as one of the world’s five fastest supercomputers at the time of its launch.
Last March, Microsoft provided an update about its infrastructure collaboration with OpenAI. The company detailed that the original 10,000-GPU supercomputer it had built for the AI developer has since been upgraded to include tens of thousands of A100 chips. Microsoft executive Scott Guthrie stated that the system’s cost was “probably larger” than several hundred million dollars.
Today’s report from The Information indicates more upgrades are in the works. According to the publication’s sources, Microsoft plans to build several additional AI infrastructure installations through 2030. The plan is reportedly divided into five phases, with Microsoft and OpenAI currently believed to be in the middle of the third.
The fourth phase is expected to involve the construction of a new supercomputer that will launch “around” 2026. The fifth phase, in turn, will center on the system that Microsoft executives refer to as Stargate internally. The supercomputer and its millions of chips are expected to become operational as early as 2028.
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“MS really has no experience in large system design.”
ROTFLMAO!
Don't the Obama/Biden Democrats want to massively tax
all of those super rich greedy capitalist pig companies
to make them pay their "fair share"? They said they did.
Oh, now I remember; these companies "donate" hundreds of
millions of dollars exclusively to the Democrats. The
taxes are only for middle/working class white
folks and families.
“They are going to need their own fusion reactor to power their AI.;-)”
And they are going to need an AI to run the fusion reactor.
Do you want Skynet?
Because this is how you get Skynet.
Oh they (MSFT) knows what to do with it. Whether they can succeed remains to be seen. But there is not an industry that won’t benefit from AI in some form or another. Heck, if they wanted to they could try to compete with Disney using a purely AI generated script and cartoon characters. They can compete with Google for search. They can develop scripts for robotic companies anything from autonomous forklifts to hamburger flippers. Fully automated customer service systems - no more “press 2 for English” type crap just talk into a device, practically any device, and it answers your questions on behalf of the company. Military contracts. Material sourcing.
How much they want to deploy as consumer facing products, and how much AI software (and software development) as a service and/or licensing type deals I guess we’ll see in time.
“30,000 chips (plus cooling, interconnects, etc) -> 50 megawatts. They are going to need their own fusion reactor to power their AI.;-)”
Probably less than 50 megawatts.
50 Mw = 67,000 hp. Cruise ship Symphony of the Seas, has a power output of 160,000 horsepower.
“A small latest generation modular nuclear power plant to power it, or let it depend on “the grid”.”
The preferred siting is near hydro electric sites.
” But there is not an industry that won’t benefit from AI in some form or another.”
Eaton (ETN)
Definitely, and not just in the AI world. I’ve been using Cortana for search and other work related projects. There are others I’ve used. I’m not committed to one like I was with Google. Google is doomed if they don’t adapt their search. They are getting squeezed. Libertarian right free people are moving content to other platforms aside YouTube because they want more liberty and to lessen the threat of demonization of video deletion. If you put content on 5 platforms then you are not totally beholden to any of them. That could ultimately end up being a win for free people if content and content viewers bleed off to other sites. Search is next. It may not hurt Google yet, but in time it will. They will either get more libertarian, or more authoritarian and if they go the latter they will quicken their demise. Which is partly why they are all suddenly in favor of government regulations over content providers.
IF you were a super intelligent entity and spent any time with humans...wouldn’t you kill them off too?
Newly-launched weather app pays travelers up to $10,000 if it rains on their vacation - as website uses AI to generate weather data for 2.3million locations around the world every hour
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13255479/weather-app-pays-travelers-rains-vacation-AI.html
No good will come of this. Remember HAL.
Butlerian Jihad now, before it’s too late.
Or maybe an upbeat tune.
This is straight out of the bible. People will worship it. Willingly or not.
Depends on the civilization and what stage they are in.
today …USA. Hmmm I plead the 5th.
Landru?
I just checked and there is no video. YouTube now says “This video isn’t available anymore”.
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