Intel to build supercomputer for Stability AI featuring CPUs and Gaudi2 accelerators

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At the time, it killed off AI chips from previous acquisition Nervana in favor of the Israeli-based business. In the latest MLPerf benchmark contest earlier this month, Gaudi2 performed well - for inferencing, it was 2.4 times faster than an Nvidia A100 and came close to the H100 Hopper GPU. For training, it remains behind, but Intel is expected to add FP8 precision quantization this month, which could make it competitive with the H100. The GPU companys dominance in artificial intelligence has also given it a software stranglehold over much of generative AIs development. Projects like Intels new supercomputer are aimed at breaking that grip, offering access to startups often at favorable rates.

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