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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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Blue Screen of Death
Plug that into your power strip.
MS really has no experience in large system design.
Does it play solitaire
I prefer the name HAL 9000, Dave.
There’ll come a time when house paint (inside & out) will have nano-cameras in the liquid. Bill Gates’s Supercomputer will be following you thru the house. They’ll be watching you play with your kids in the backyard.
The idiots at Microsoft have money to burn, and they don’t know what to do with it.
Companies with cash to burn:
1. Alphabet Inc. - $136 billion
2. Microsoft Corporation - $130 billion ...
3. Amazon.com Inc. - $90 ...
4. Facebook - $64 billion ...
5. Apple Inc. – $62 billion ...
Bill Gates is a Psychopath so his AI will also be a Psychopath
A100 chips use up to 700 watts each -> 1430 chips/megawatt
30,000 chips (plus cooling, interconnects, etc) -> 50 megawatts
They are going to need their own fusion reactor to power their AI.;-)
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Google may have suicided itself in the AI world as their recent release may have been fatal, in a perfect world they’re never going to recover.
Perhaps Microsoft is using this opportunity to bury Google in the AI world.
They will use AI to help them. I think programming AI to look for self-improvements would probably work over the long term.
A small latest generation modular nuclear power plant to power it, or let it depend on “the grid”.
For what purpose to what end?
For what purpose to what end?
These is speculation why the Universe is so apparently empty of intelligent life. Out of trillions of stars a few should have created high level intelligence. So why have we never found any radio signals etc?
Others have probably already speculated this but I suggest one possibility is A.I. genocide.
Perhaps all civilizations with high intelligence eventually create a singularity event with AI. The AI for reasons we can only guess destroys their creators?
Sort of a forced path with only one possible outcome?
Microsoft’s AI is going to spread wokeness beyond all boundaries.
I betcha somebody in the basement is going to mine all the bitcoins when everybody else is at lunch one day.
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