Microsoft teamed up with OpenAI to build a massive AI supercomputer in Azure

• “At its Build developer conference, Microsoft today announced that it has teamed up with OpenAI…to create one of the world’s fastest supercomputers
• Microsoft says that the 285,000-core machine would have ranked in the top five of the TOP500 supercomputer rankings.
• To be in the top five of supercomputers, a machine would currently have to reach more than 23,000 teraflops per second. It’s also worth noting that the No. 1 machine, the IBM Power System-based Summit, reaches over 148,000 teraflops”

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