Within further huge investments in artificial intelligence, the construction of “Stargate“, a AI-based supercomputer in development at Microsoft and OpenAIas a substantial new step in the evolution of technology.
As reported by Reuters, Microsoft and OpenAI have invested 100 billion dollars in the construction of a new data center project, which also includes the development of this Stargate, which would be a newly developed computer designed to largely exploit machine learning.
According to what was reported by The Information, this project would be divided into five progressive phases and the companies would currently be in the third phase, so it would be a process already well underway, but the launch of Stargate would only be expected at the end of all this.
Along with a $100 billion data center
Considering the overall timing, Stargate should come into operation in 2028, but this also depends on the processing times of the new versions of OpenAI's LLM model: essentially, the prerogative is that the company achieves the launch of GPT-5 by a certain date, and then definitively giving the green light to the supercomputer.
Considering that the latter should be ready by 2025, in any case, the roadmap seems realistic. There is no precise information on how this futuristic hardware is built.
Microsoft has already created its own supercomputer in 2020 to support OpenAI, focused on Azure and the use of tens of thousands of NVIDIA A100 accelerators, but it is not certain that Stargate is destined to follow the same path.
In particular, it is not certain that the collaboration with NVIDIA on this front is destined to continue for the new project, considering that it could work on new custom processors focused on AI that could also arrive from other manufacturers, such as AMD.
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