AI startups are building supercomputers

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In today’s update:

📰 News: AI startups are building supercomputers.

🛠️ Tools: Smarter way to use spreadsheets.

🎲 Misc: NYC’s Anti-Bias law for using AI in hiring decisions.

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Inflection AI’s $800M Supercomputer

What: Inflection AI, an AI startup, has built one of the largest supercomputer in the industry! With 22,000 top of the line NVIDIA H100 GPUs, it’s right behind the world’s fastest supercomputer, AMD's Frontier.

By the numbers:

1. GPUs: 22,000 units of NVIDIA H100!

2. CPUs: 700 four-node racks of Intel Xeon CPUs!

3. Energy Consumption: Estimated ~31 MegaWatts of energy, enough to power 2300 homes for a year in the US!

4. Cost: Estimated $800 million! The H100 GPU retails for $40,000 a piece!

Why it matters: We already know GPUs are getting harder to find. Amidst this shortage, tech companies are even acquiring other companies who have stockpile of GPUs!

But what’s interesting is an AI startup, known for building a chatbot, built one of the largest supercomputers in the world! Plus, somehow they were able to acquire 22,000 GPUs!

Another takeaway is the supercomputers are no longer the playthings of massive corporations. Startups like Inflection AI are making serious inroads, and it's a fascinating shift to witness.

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Misc
From the corners of the Internet

• ChatGPT saw monthly traffic to its website and unique visitors decline 9.7%, for the first time ever in June, but still remains one of the top 20 websites in the world with ~1.5 billion monthly visits - Reuters

• NYC's Anti-Bias law for using AI in hiring algorithms goes into effect - Techcrunch

• Thread, Instagram’s Twitter clone, passes 10M users within 7 hours of launch - Techcrunch

• Are you ready to use AI at work: 72% of business leaders from Fortune 500 companies plan to adopt generative AI within the next three years to improve employee productivity (link)

• Spotify CEO's startup, Neko Health, raises $65M for using AI in preventive healthcare through full-body scans - Techcrunch