[ad_1] Once, the world’s richest men competed over yachts, jets and private islands. Now, the size-measuring contest of choice is clusters. Just 18 months ago, OpenAI trained GPT-4, its then state-of-the-art large language model (LLM), on a network of around 25,000 then state-of-the-art graphics processing units (GPUs) made by Nvidia. Now Elon Musk and Mark…
[ad_1] AWS Global Public Policy vice president Michael Punke met with Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, IT and Industries Minister D. Sridhar Babu and officials at World Economic Forum (WEF) annual conference 2025 in Davos, Switzerland. | Photo Credit: By Arrangement Tech behemoth Amazon Web Services (AWS) agreed to invest Rs. 60,000 crore in…
[ad_1] Donald Trump has announced a $500-billion venture called Stargate (the name is inspired by sci-fi) to build AI-focused data centres and other infrastructure in the US. The aim is to lead in AI, create 100,000 jobs, and outpace China. Mint explores the implications for India: What’s Project Stargate all about? It’s a $500-billion joint…
[ad_1] Two recent stories underscored the complexity of the task at hand. One, published in Bloomberg (biturl.top/mqy2Qr), highlighted the frictions, high costs and inconvenience faced by buyers and sellers of alternative energy, demonstrating the absurdity of forcibly trying to wean the world off fossil fuels. The other, published by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) (biturl.top/3i6ram),…
[ad_1] Shares of Intel plunged a vertiginous 25%, Microsoft and Google both dipped on their seemingly stellar earnings reports, and even the mighty Nvidia lost hundreds of billions of dollars from the dizzying high of its $3.2 trillion valuation. Investors got unnerved when companies like Microsoft and Google each committed to spending upwards of $50…
