Microsoft Builds Massive Supercomputer For OpenAI, But Whose Chips Are Inside? - News Summed Up

Microsoft Builds Massive Supercomputer For OpenAI, But Whose Chips Are Inside?


Microsoft has announced that the company has built a top 5 AI supercomputer for OpenAI, hosted in the Azure cloud. Microsoft invested a billion dollars in the OpenAI industry research group in 2019. Microsoft's blog on the announcement included this content-free image of their supercomputer MicrosoftFigure 1: Microsoft's blog on the announcement included this content-free image of their supercomputer. And b) the GPU’s cannot be AMD Radeons because those GPUs do not yet enjoy the ecosystem required to support the research underway at OpenAI. A little detective work leads me to conclude that AMD, NVIDIA, and probably Mellanox won the sockets.


Source: Forbes May 20, 2020 13:56 UTC



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