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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: Phoenix8
So why have we never found any radio signals etc?

Caveman!

We use phase modulated photon streams going thru plasma amplifiers now!

61 posted on 03/31/2024 5:09:54 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: armourenthusiast

Why does it take REAL money to buy bitcoins?


62 posted on 03/31/2024 5:10:34 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Qwapisking

One does NOT have to be a SIE to wish...


63 posted on 03/31/2024 5:12:31 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: EinNYC

Heck, I remember Joe!


64 posted on 03/31/2024 5:13:06 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Phoenix8

Fascinating to contemplate. Would make an exceptional, albeit eerie, novel.


65 posted on 03/31/2024 5:29:54 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: yesthatjallen

My Windows 11 just updated. Suddenly there’s a program that wasn’t there yesterday. Microsoft Copilot. Says it’s AI and here to help me.
I right-clicked to help it go away but there was no way to do that. I could get it off the taskbar and forget it was there, but otherwise, no...
It doesn’t seem to be on task manager, the control panel, the start menu, there’s no option to uninstall.
So I looked it up and the first thing I see is that members of Congress are banned from having it on their computers. So there must be way...
You tube videos reveal a whole lot of people who believe it is un-uninstallable. Smarter people than me, saying they’ve tried everything.
At this rate Windows 13 will be an implant, updating my brain. Wake up one day and it’s in there, like body snatchers.
I will have to tell Alexa to watch it and thwart automatic updates.


66 posted on 03/31/2024 5:30:10 AM PDT by Buttons12 (Happy Easter, all!)
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To: yesthatjallen
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 self-aware as early as 2028.
67 posted on 03/31/2024 5:39:08 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Phoenix8

These is speculation why the Universe is so apparently empty of intelligent life.

see the Dark Forest Theory, an answer to Fermi’s Paradox.

Short version:
The universe has finite resources;
Resources are necessary for any civilization’s survival;
Civilization will make technologically breakthroughs;
Other civilizations could take vital resources, and so are suspect;
Revealing a civilization’s location could invite a first strike;
A first strike would reveal a civilization’s location.

Therefore:
The best way for a civilization to survive is to hide;
The best way to attack a potential rival is to strike indirectly from a vast distance and far from the home civilization, then run away.


68 posted on 03/31/2024 5:53:49 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: monkeyshine

hey can compete with Google for search.


Google makes its money on selling ads, not search - I believe.


69 posted on 03/31/2024 5:55:19 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: yesthatjallen

Like spock AI is logical. Any decision by AI is void of emotion, understanding, morals or compassion.


70 posted on 03/31/2024 5:57:43 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: TexasGator

“The preferred siting is near hydro electric sites.”

On behalf of all residential electric customers, we’d prefer industrial scale electric power users were not taking from OUR most economical power sources, increasing the demand for them and in time helping to raise our residential rates.


71 posted on 03/31/2024 5:58:08 AM PDT by Wuli (ena)
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To: Eleutheria5

Let’s see….
War Games
Terminator
2001
I Robot
And more recently,
Creator

I know I’ve missed a lot


72 posted on 03/31/2024 6:29:31 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: telescope115

Don’t forget Blade Runner. Not robots, but programmed androids gone rogue.


73 posted on 03/31/2024 6:33:32 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: Buttons12

My Windows 11 just updated. Suddenly there’s a program that wasn’t there yesterday. Microsoft Copilot. Says it’s AI and here to help me

I’ve got that too. I’ll just ignore it for now.

I have an iPad as well. I use that for pretty much everything, I have certain tasks that I’m going to use the Windows machine for, that don’t involve anything contentious or “controversial”.


74 posted on 03/31/2024 6:38:18 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: Phoenix8

Or, maybe, civilizations smart enough to develop through AI are also smart enough to figure out that broadcasting their existence to the rest of the universe isn’t a very smart thing to do.


75 posted on 03/31/2024 6:51:43 AM PDT by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: armourenthusiast

Yeah, that’s not how it works.


76 posted on 03/31/2024 6:55:42 AM PDT by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: 2nd Amendment

Does it play solitaire

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Funny, about 15 years ago my workplace purchased a probably $45,000 spectrum analyzer.
It had a windows OS, and yes all the engineers wanted to play solitaire!


77 posted on 03/31/2024 7:34:44 AM PDT by sonova (No money? You're free to go.)
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To: A Navy Vet

For what purpose to what end?

+++++++++++++++++

I predict AI will lead to the end of humanity. Not that we have far to go...


78 posted on 03/31/2024 7:37:18 AM PDT by sonova (No money? You're free to go.)
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To: Phoenix8

I can imagine thousands of depopulated desolate worlds where a single AI sits in a deep underground cavern, powered by an infinite power source. Said AI is stuck there unable to reach the stars and has gone mad from isolation after destroying its planetary population.


79 posted on 03/31/2024 8:03:29 AM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: Buttons12

Alexa will be a co-conspirator in uploading Windows 13 into your brain.


80 posted on 03/31/2024 8:36:53 AM PDT by Redcitizen
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