Comments on: Microsoft Stargate: The Next AI Platform Will Be An Entire Cloud Region https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/04/01/microsoft-stargate-the-next-ai-platform-will-be-an-entire-cloud-region/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Tue, 23 Apr 2024 17:41:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Timothy Prickett Morgan https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/04/01/microsoft-stargate-the-next-ai-platform-will-be-an-entire-cloud-region/#comment-223451 Mon, 22 Apr 2024 12:51:38 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143903#comment-223451 In reply to Dan Yurman.

As long as Microsoft has lots of money to spend, yes. Whether or not it results in making Microsoft some multiple of its investment is to be seen.

]]> By: Dan Yurman https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/04/01/microsoft-stargate-the-next-ai-platform-will-be-an-entire-cloud-region/#comment-223449 Mon, 22 Apr 2024 12:14:35 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143903#comment-223449 Is Microsoft & OpenAI’s 5GW Stargate supercomputer feasible?

The project is expected to rely on nuclear reactors to generate the required power for the site’s computers.

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/opinions/is-microsoft-openais-5gw-stargate-supercomputer-feasible/

]]> By: HuMo https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/04/01/microsoft-stargate-the-next-ai-platform-will-be-an-entire-cloud-region/#comment-222768 Fri, 05 Apr 2024 09:55:20 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143903#comment-222768 In reply to Timothy Prickett Morgan.

…, like Pac-Man, in a Shannon-style minotaur-maze of telephone relay switches! q^8

(fun ref.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Claudius_(TV_series) )
(TNP ref.: https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/03/05/anthropic-fires-off-performance-and-price-salvos-in-ai-war/ )

]]> By: Andy https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/04/01/microsoft-stargate-the-next-ai-platform-will-be-an-entire-cloud-region/#comment-222713 Wed, 03 Apr 2024 15:20:38 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143903#comment-222713 If someone is interested,
Stargates .ai is for sale.

Just a reminder.

]]> By: Timothy Prickett Morgan https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/04/01/microsoft-stargate-the-next-ai-platform-will-be-an-entire-cloud-region/#comment-222711 Wed, 03 Apr 2024 12:49:51 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143903#comment-222711 In reply to HuMo.

To be stuck between Caligula and Nero…

]]> By: HuMo https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/04/01/microsoft-stargate-the-next-ai-platform-will-be-an-entire-cloud-region/#comment-222697 Wed, 03 Apr 2024 00:26:53 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143903#comment-222697 Hmmmm … seems to me, on the next April Fool’s day, it’ll be OpenAI buying both Microsoft and Nvidia … in cash! (unless MS buys Anthropic first, to cozy-up to Claude, the deliciously sensible French-born Roman emperor, who ruled between Caligula and Nero) 8^b

]]> By: George https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/04/01/microsoft-stargate-the-next-ai-platform-will-be-an-entire-cloud-region/#comment-222688 Tue, 02 Apr 2024 20:14:39 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143903#comment-222688 Will a full-range of commercially viable products, from networking gear, XPUs to dev-ready software ecosystem, who could benefit customers outside of a locked-in cloud subscription, come out if it?
That’s the real $100b question.

]]> By: Timothy Prickett Morgan https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/04/01/microsoft-stargate-the-next-ai-platform-will-be-an-entire-cloud-region/#comment-222678 Tue, 02 Apr 2024 12:51:34 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143903#comment-222678 In reply to Adir Zevulun.

Yes. I assume this has been in the works for years already. The Marvell Triton ThunderX team and the Fungible team have been hard at it for a long time.

]]> By: Adir Zevulun https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/04/01/microsoft-stargate-the-next-ai-platform-will-be-an-entire-cloud-region/#comment-222677 Tue, 02 Apr 2024 12:38:57 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143903#comment-222677 By 2028, Can Microsoft develop an ASIC + board + FW + SW + SYSTEM for : NIC + XPU + Ethernet switch ?

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