A researcher claims Microsoft and OpenAI may have cracked multi-datacenter distributed training for their AI models based on their 'actions': "Mic...

[Windows Central]

A researcher claims Microsoft and OpenAI have finally figured out a plausible way to train the LLMs across multiple data centers.

A researcher claims Microsoft and OpenAI may have cracked multi-datacenter distributed training for their AI models based on their 'actions': "Mic... : Read more

 

[Roccy]

It will be interesting to see how this power-hungry tech fares with the looming degradation of the US power grid as green power takes over from the current grid's more reliable sources that are already starting to be shut down.

 

[fjtorres5591]

It will be interesting to see how this power-hungry tech fares with the looming degradation of the US power grid as green power takes over from the current grid's more reliable sources that are already starting to be shut down.

Well, MS is looking at nuclear (reactivating Three Mile Island according to some reports), fusion (the deal with Helion for 2028) and lots of co-located solar. They're placing bets on lots of potential solutions.
Google is betting on geothermal fracking.
The others?
Unclear.

 

[nocturn9x]

Well, MS is looking at nuclear (reactivating Three Mile Island according to some reports), fusion (the deal with Helion for 2028) and lots of co-located solar. They're placing bets on lots of potential solutions.
Google is betting on geothermal fracking.
The others?
Unclear.

Honestly, the more I look into Helion the more it seems like it's a lot of marketing/PR nonsense. But I'm in no way a fusion expert so I guess I'll just see what happens

 

[fjtorres5591]

Honestly, the more I look into Helion the more it seems like it's a lot of marketing/PR nonsense. But I'm in no way a fusion expert so I guess I'll just see what happens

The thing about Helion is their approach to fusion isn't the miniature star approach of the tokamaks but more of a first principles approach. Think airplanes and helicopters versus ornithopters.

Instead of trying to maintain a mini star, super hot plasma stable long enough to extract useful heat, the Helion system uses pulsing electromagnetic forces to collide plasma clouds to generate energy and extract the generated energy. (rather like an electromagnetic diesel-style engine). Its not reliant on thermodynamic cycles or long containment times but on many tiny fusion "explosions" in sequence.

Much like the Farnsworth fusors and Bussard Polywell wiffle balls, their approach already works, but haven't yet produced enough energy to be useful. They need to scale up their device pulse rates successfully to produce more energy than they consume rather than grow physically bigger or increase containment times. To date their prototypes have scaled according to theory. They may or not succeed but they haven't failed yet.

The PR hype is actually necessary because, remember, it is a private tech startup rather than a multinational jobs program like ITER or a government lab project. They need to lure investor support them with the promise of big profits and in today's economic environment venture capital is harder to raise for anything other than "AI".

Whatever they have, they convinced to sign up for *production* output, with economic penalties if they don't deliver.

Microsoft is reportedly eyeing nuclear energy for its AI ventures following the tech's exorbitant power consumption

Microsoft is looking into nuclear energy as a plausible option for its AI ventures.

www.windowscentral.com

 

[dougpaw57]

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