Microsoft, Nvidia Partner To Build a Massive AI Supercomputer in the Cloud

Nvidia and Microsoft announced Wednesday a multi-year collaboration to build an AI supercomputer in the cloud, adding tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs to Microsoft Azure. ZDNet: The new agreement makes Azure the first public cloud to incorporate Nvidia's full AI stack -- its GPUs, networking, and AI software. By beefing up Azure's infrastructure with Nvidia's full AI suite, more enterprises will be able to train, deploy, and scale AI -- including large, state-of-the-art models. "AI technology advances as well as industry adoption are accelerating," Manuvir Das, Nvidia's VP of enterprise computing, said in a statement. "The breakthrough of foundation models has triggered a tidal wave of research, fostered new startups, and enabled new enterprise applications."

Skynet?

[nospam007]

Is that you?

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[kellin]

damnit. beat me to it.

In the cloud...

[SciCom Luke]

...so, a computer that can be accessed remotely. Like almost all computers.

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[NateFromMich]

...so, a computer that can be accessed remotely. Like almost all computers.

Sort of, but using the cloud instead of your own servers has a huge advantage. Instead of paying your own people and paying for your own facilities to manage the physical server hardware, you rent that service from someone else who pays for all of that stuff.
This allows them to profit some on that service, and pass all the costs along to you.

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[SciCom Luke]

So, a computer that can be accessed remotely, Like almost all computers, plus accounts are sold to customers outside the owning company. Fair enough.

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[NateFromMich]

So, a computer that can be accessed remotely, Like almost all computers, plus accounts are sold to customers outside the owning company. Fair enough.

Well, I worked at datacenters in hosting for about 15 years, so I'm a little jaded on the whole "cloud" notion.

Will it power the metaverse?

[gweihir]

Because there is not yet enough bullshit-bingo in there...

Re: Will it power the metaverse?

[sixminuteabs]

So you are saying that any organization that has a problem that can be solved with massive scale AI should have to learn to build their own ? Here I thought we were opposed to gatekeeping.

In other words

[Powercntrl]

Microsoft announces buzzword soup to pump their stock in a bear market.

William Gibson

[e3m4n]

Isnt this how just about every Willaim Gibson novel started? Where is the Turing Registry when we need them?