Elon Musk's xAI secures $6 billion in new funding
Billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk's startup xAI said it has raised $6 billion from investors in an increasingly crowded artificial intelligence market.
May 27, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
Musk plans largest-ever supercomputer for xAI startup: Report
Billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk has told investors he plans to build a supercomputer dubbed "gigafactory of compute" to support the development of his artificial intelligence startup xAI, an industry news outlet reported ...
May 26, 2024
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Computer Sciences
New supercomputer mimicking the human brain could help unlock secrets of the mind and advance AI
A supercomputer scheduled to go online in April 2024 will rival the estimated rate of operations in the human brain, according to researchers in Australia. The machine, called DeepSouth, is capable of performing 228 trillion ...
Dec 19, 2023
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Altman drama: twist in seven-year Microsoft, OpenAI relationship
Microsoft's hiring of ousted OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Monday marks another twist in the seven-year-old partnership between the US giant and the startup that created ChatGPT.
Nov 20, 2023
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The quantum computer already exists, but is not all that powerful
You may be one of those waiting for the quantum computer, the arrival of which we have been told is imminent for several years. Already at this point, DTU Associate Professor Sven Karlsson begins to look a little strained, ...
May 16, 2023
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Engineering
Supercomputer simulations show ways to clean up, speed up gas turbines
When you take a trip on a plane, train or cruise ship you likely are traveling by the power of gas turbines. These are combustion engines that convert gas or liquid fuel to mechanical energy. The process involves air, fuel, ...
Mar 8, 2023
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Electronics & Semiconductors
How much faster can computers get?
A group of 10 universities led by the University of California, San Diego is undertaking a $50.5 million effort to greatly improve the speed and efficiency of computers, work that could do everything from make drug discovery ...
Jan 18, 2023
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Supercomputing center dataset aims to accelerate AI research into optimizing high-performance computing systems
When the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center (LLSC) unveiled its TX-GAIA supercomputer in 2019, it provided the MIT community a powerful new resource for applying artificial intelligence to their research. Anyone ...
Aug 24, 2022
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Scientists break through exascale barrier for quantum chemistry simulations
A team led by Paderborn scientists Professor Thomas D. Kühne and Professor Christian Plessl has succeeded in becoming the first group in the world to break the major "exaflop" barrier—more than 1 trillion floating-point ...
Jun 1, 2022
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Identifying individual proteins using nanopores and supercomputers
The amount and types of proteins our cells produce tell us important details about our health and how our bodies work. But the methods we have of identifying and quantifying individual proteins are inadequate to the task. ...
Nov 10, 2021
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