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CTOnews.com, Nov. 17, today, Microsoft and Nvidia announced a multi-year partnership to develop a new AI artificial intelligence cloud supercomputer for Azure customers, powered by Nvidia GPU technology.

Use "tens of thousands" of Nvidia GPU performance graphics cards (Nvidia's most powerful H100 and A100 chips, sources say each A100 chip costs about $10, 000 to $12000, while H100 chips cost much more), 400Gb / s Quantum-2 InfiniBand network and Nvidia's nascent artificial intelligence platform The two companies aim to accelerate the launch and development of artificial intelligence-based tools and applications driven by Nvidia Technologies and Microsoft Cloud Computing. This is the first time Nvidia has partnered with Microsoft Azure to provide the public with the full stack of its cloud artificial intelligence infrastructure.

As Nvidia's hardware influence expands, Microsoft Azure will bring its unique global scalability to virtual machine instances, which Nvidia says will help accelerate the training and deployment of various artificial intelligence tools. Nvidia said basic models such as the Megatron Turing NLG 530B would develop rapidly under the plan, with the goal of developing "unsupervised" self-learning algorithms for building code, text, digital images, audio and video. Nvidia and Microsoft will also work together on the Microsoft DeepSpeed algorithm improvement platform, which is designed to help artificial intelligence instances learn themselves more quickly.

Scott Guthrie, Microsoft's executive vice president for cloud computing and artificial intelligence, welcomed the partnership as the two companies will work together to explore the next wave in the automation industry. " Artificial intelligence is driving the next wave of automation in enterprise and industrial computing, enabling enterprises to get twice the result with half the effort in dealing with economic uncertainty. Our partnership with Nvidia unlocks the world's most scalable supercomputer platform, providing every enterprise with the most advanced AI capabilities on Microsoft Azure. "

CTOnews.com has learned that Microsoft's interest in developing artificial intelligence platforms has been multiplying in recent years. Microsoft has internal teams throughout its portfolio exploring how to incorporate artificial intelligence self-learning algorithms into almost every product group. For example, Copilot programming editors appear in GitHub and Visual Studio. Also see how artificial intelligence can enhance and speed up the development of Xbox and PC games, leaving intensive tasks to artificial intelligence. Of course, I also saw a bunch of creepy images generated by artificial intelligence, which, while interesting, also caused controversy over piracy, because artificial intelligence uses real-world art to train itself.

In fact, with the growth of Microsoft's investment in this field, there will undoubtedly be a run-in of all kinds of problems. From the content copyright requirements for training algorithms to the moral issues of artificial intelligence behavior. There is also the thorny problem of artificial intelligence and automation causing human labor to lose their jobs. Moreover, artificial intelligence cloud computers may become conscious and take over the world in the future.

In any case, Microsoft seems ready to be at the forefront of this nascent technology with its enterprise partners on Azure.

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