Google CEO Demis Hassabis offered us a first rate second rate essay, A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age. I’ll go over that essay and various responses to it in Part 1.
… Demis Hassabis sold DeepMind to Google on condition that something like this would not happen. Yet here it is, happening. A cautionary tale. — Read More
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Japan’s first national AI factory will use 27,500 GPUs across 382 Vera Rubin racks
Nvidia is working with Japan’s newly formed Noetra consortium to build a 140-megawatt AI factory that will serve as the compute backbone for the government’s FRONTia program, which focuses on robotics, industrial automation, and digital twins. The facility will run on Nvidia’s DSX data center platform and use Vera Rubin NVL72 racks, each combining 72 Rubin GPUs and 36 Vera CPUs.
In total, the project calls for 27,500 Rubin GPUs and 13,750 Vera CPUs connected through Spectrum-X Ethernet networking. The system is designed to handle the training of trillion-parameter models as capacity ramps up.
Nvidia is positioning the Rubin AI factory as a full-stack platform encompassing chips, networking, systems, and software for training and deploying open multimodal foundation models. — Read More
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