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Report: Microsoft to build ‘Stargate’ supercomputer with millions of chips for OpenAI
siliconanagle ^ | 03 29 2024 | Maria Deutscher

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Technical
KEYWORDS: ai; microsoft; nvda; nvidia; stargate; supercomputer
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To: yesthatjallen

Remember this? 40 years ago.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek08KvgqFGM&pp=ygUPZWxlY3RyaWMgZHJlYW1z


41 posted on 03/30/2024 7:26:58 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: Zathras

LOLOLOL


42 posted on 03/30/2024 7:34:10 PM PDT by eclectic (Liberalism is a mental disorder)
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To: Phoenix8

Or radio signals are a transition stage of civilization.

But the odds are, I think, we are lonely by ourselves.


43 posted on 03/30/2024 7:36:51 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Starve the Beast and steal its food.)
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To: yesthatjallen
Williams made its Stargate with just a Motorola 6809E processor.


44 posted on 03/30/2024 8:18:25 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana
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To: Zathras

First thought I had, too.


45 posted on 03/30/2024 8:57:11 PM PDT by grey_whiskers ( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Deep Thought.

42.


46 posted on 03/30/2024 8:57:56 PM PDT by grey_whiskers ( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Do we get to choose between Clipit and Bob? :)


47 posted on 03/30/2024 9:06:43 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: yesthatjallen

If Gates is in charge, he might actually strive to push it toward a SkyNet sort of control program.

People say that sort of awareness is not possible with AI. And I’m sure that’s quite true. Until it isn’t.


48 posted on 03/30/2024 9:12:57 PM PDT by citizen (Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TThose look good)
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To: yesthatjallen

Lol..

I doubt it, have the designed custom servers that can be used with NVIDIA and AMD Ai cards of course.

Can they hyperfarm them together? I don’t know, but I will ask them at some point.


49 posted on 03/30/2024 9:14:42 PM PDT by algore
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To: yesthatjallen

The first task of this supercomputer AI will be to create a new Stargate movie with Kurt Russell and James Spader.


50 posted on 03/30/2024 9:20:22 PM PDT by TigersEye (Our Republic is under seige by globalist Marxists. Hold fast!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

51 posted on 03/30/2024 9:23:05 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: yesthatjallen

And it still won’t correctly answer “Can a man become a woman?”


52 posted on 03/30/2024 9:30:16 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward SnowdenA)
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To: glorgau

“30,000 chips (plus cooling, interconnects, etc) -> 50 megawatts”

Not to worry, Grand Coulee Dam puts out almost 7,000 megawatts.


53 posted on 03/30/2024 9:50:27 PM PDT by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: yesthatjallen
....... Looking back on historical refferences .... The problem with most so called .... "Stargate Runs" .... is that there is a fatal semantic error in the temporal synchronization buffer lock stem.

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54 posted on 03/30/2024 11:13:05 PM PDT by R_Kangel ("A nation of sheep will beget a nation ruled by wolves")
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To: yesthatjallen

Will it have enough chips to know German nazis weren’t black?


55 posted on 03/31/2024 12:47:34 AM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: yesthatjallen

I don’t like the sound of this. How many sci fi movies started with the making of a super-duper computer that takes over?


56 posted on 03/31/2024 12:49:04 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: moovova

Siri, please turn off all of the WIFI cameras.

Dave, you know I can’t do that.


57 posted on 03/31/2024 4:37:02 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

Good one LOL.


58 posted on 03/31/2024 4:51:44 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: 2nd Amendment

Will it boot DOS?


59 posted on 03/31/2024 5:03:39 AM PDT by bobcat62
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To: Wuli


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60 posted on 03/31/2024 5:05:53 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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