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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

I admit to having mixed feelings about this funding:

“built with the company’s specialized chips, which are designed to power artificial intelligence products. The chips stand out for their size — like that of a dinner plate, or 56 times as large as a chip commonly used for A.I. Each Cerebras chip packs the computing power of hundreds of traditional chips.

Cerebras said it had built the supercomputer for G42, an A.I. company. G42 [of Abu Dhabi] said it planned to use the supercomputer to create and power A.I. products for the Middle East.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/20/technology/an-ai-supercomputer-whirs-to-life-powered-by-giant-computer-chips.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare