Since 2019, the American company Microsoft has been developing special processors for artificial intelligence in connection with the financing of the OpenAI initiative, which created the popular chat bot ChatGPT. These release reports Information with reference to sources.
“Microsoft has another secret weapon in its arsenal: its own artificial intelligence chip to support major language models responsible for understanding and creating human-like language,” the article says.
The Redmond-based company has been developing the chip, codenamed Athena, internally since 2019, according to two people with direct knowledge of the project.
One of the post’s anonymous speakers said that the latest chips are already available by a small group of Microsoft and OpenAI employees testing the technology.
“Microsoft hopes this chip will outperform chips currently purchased from other vendors. This will save time and money in costly AI development efforts,” the source added.
Other well-known tech companies, including Amazon, Google, and Facebook (who owns Meta are considered extremist and banned in Russia), are also reported to have produced their own chips for artificial intelligence.
According to journalists, about 300 specialists are currently working on the chip. The institution is expected to release the first version of its artificial intelligence processors in 2024.
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