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The UK government is investing $273 million to build Isambard-AI, its most powerful supercomputer to date, powered by 5,448 of Nvidia's GH200 Grace Hopper superchips. The machine will deliver 21 exaflops of AI performance, making it one of the top AI supercomputers in the world. Isambard-AI, which is being built by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, is expected to be operational in the summer of 2024 and will be hosted by the University of Bristol.

The supercomputer will be 10 times faster than the UK's current fastest supercomputer and will be used in conjunction with other supercomputers to further boost performance. The announcement was made during the UK's AI Security Summit.

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Alibaba has announced an update to its GPT-4-like model, Tongyi Qianwen, and launched a series of eight industry-specific AI models. The update was announced by Alibaba's cloud computing arm at its annual conference in Hangzhou. The new version, Tongyi Qianwen 2.0, reportedly has hundreds of billions of parameters, making it one of the world's most powerful AI models by that measure. The industry-specific models are designed for the entertainment, finance, healthcare, and legal sectors. Alibaba chairman Joe Tsai also revealed that about half of China's large-scale AI models are now running on Alibaba Cloud, and that Alibaba's AI model-sharing platform, ModelScope, has 2,300 models and 2.7 million contributing developers.

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