Microsoft’s $100 Billion Scientific Gamble

Microsoft’s Stargate project with OpenAI is premised on a potentially costly misunderstanding of how science works.

By Vincent J. Carchidi

Supercomputers and Scaling Laws: The Hope of Emergent Abilities

The Information reported in late March that Microsoft is planning to build a supercomputer in coordination with OpenAI to the tune of up to one hundred billion dollars. The supercomputer, called “Stargate,” would be the fifth in a series of planned supercomputers, with Stargate constituting …

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