The future of the technological world will be marked by artificial intelligence, therefore, companies and countries have invested practically all their efforts in implementing solutions and equipment dedicated to this sector. As such, recent reports indicate that the UK will spend nearly £1 billion on its BritGPT AI supercomputer.
BritGPT: £900m to build AI supercomputer
Supercomputers are monstrous processing machines that execute extremely fast processes and deliver powerful performance. We have already talked about many of these devices located in many countries and aimed at very different computer functions.
But today we are going to know the plan of the UK government in this regard Investment 900 million pounds, over a billion euros, for the construction of its supercomputer exascale, called BridgeBT, which later focused on artificial intelligence.
The name BritGPT quickly becomes associated with OpenAI's popular ChatGPT system, but the UK government aims to use this supercomputer to develop its own GPT AI model. Prime Minister Jeremy Hunt revealed the British government's decision last Wednesday (15) to argue that artificial intelligence technology requires massive computing power.
According to the revealed details, this British supercomputer will have a powerful system capable of reaching 1,000 PetaFLOPs, which corresponds to 1 million TFLOPs, which already gives a better idea of the capacity and power of this machine. In terms of energy issues, BridgeBT is at the same level as Frontier, considered the world's fastest supercomputer at Oak Ridge Laboratory in the US.
The British AI supercomputer is expected to be used for research in health, economics, etc.
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