In this episode of the McKinsey Global Institute’s Forward Thinking podcast, host Michael Chui speaks with Jeffrey Ding, researcher and founder of the ChinAI Newsletter, about information asymmetry in artificial intelligence between China and the West. They cover why data may not be like oil, the Chinese industry adage on products, platforms, and standards, “unsexy AI,” and more.
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Daily Archives: June 28, 2021
Ahead of ‘Dojo,’ Tesla Reveals Its Massive Precursor Supercomputer
In spring 2019, Tesla made cryptic reference to a project called Dojo, a “super-powerful training computer” for video data processing. Then, in summer 2020, Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted: “Tesla is developing a [neural network] training computer called Dojo to process truly vast amounts of video data. It’s a beast! … A truly useful exaflop at de facto FP32.” Welcome to summer 2021 – it’s time for your annual Dojo update.
Well, sort of: instead of revealing the ins and outs of Dojo, Tesla instead opted to reveal a precursor cluster that the company estimates may be the fifth most-powerful supercomputer in the world. Read More
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