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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years ago

Foxconn and Nvidia are building 'AI factories' to accelerate self-driving cars | TechCrunch

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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years ago
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Nvidia and Foxconn are working together to build so-called "AI factories," a new class of data centers that promise to provide supercomputing powers to
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    So can someone explain what an AI factory is, from an engineering perspective? The fact there’s competition to build them suggests it’s not just a marketing term, but I can’t find a clear answer with a quick search.

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      I can only imagine these are just crypto mining farms, but instead of running mining they train ai models

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        I mean, isn’t that just a normal datacenter, then? Those already exist, and Foxconn at least probably owns some.

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          Yes, but probably more video card focused than running the biggest epyc or xeon processors.

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      It’s just a marketing term.

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        Yep, just looked into Dojo. They don’t use the same term at all. -1 to the journalist for making it sound like an industry standard thing.

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