GPU makers amid soaring global demand for AI-powered apps
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announced that it is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to build Israel’s most powerful AI supercomputer.
The cloud-based system will be partially operational by the end of 2023, according to the company. Reuters, citing Nvidia Senior Vice President Gilad Shiner, said NVIDIA is working with 800 Israeli startups and tens of thousands of software. engineer.
The system, called Israel-1, is expected to deliver up to 8 exaflops of AI computing performance, effectively making it one of the fastest AI supercomputers in the world. 1 exaflops computing means that the computer is capable of performing 1 quintillion per second of him, which means he can perform 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 calculations.
AI is “the most important technology in our lifetime,” said Shiner, and the development of AI and generative AI applications requires large graphics processing units (GPUs).
“Generative AI is ubiquitous today. You need to be able to train on large datasets. It’s a massive system that allows us to build solutions that can deal with this,” Reuters reported Shiner.
Demand for AI supercomputers
Since the AI boom last year with the announcement of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, several companies have started investing in powerful machines capable of handling heavy computing loads.
OpenAI’s supercomputer was built with thousands of Nvidia A100 graphics chips to support ChatGPT and Bing AI chatbots.
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It is also said to be working with AMD on AI processors that can be used to train Large Language Models (LLMs). Facebook parent company Meta recently unveiled its first custom silicon chip to handle AI programs. This chip is called the Meta Training and Inference Accelerator (MTIA).
Nvidia also revealed that it is working with the University of Bristol in the UK to build a new supercomputer using new Nvidia chips to compete with Intel and AMD.
