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Exafunction aims to reduce AI dev costs by abstracting away hardware

TechCrunch

But they share a common bottleneck: hardware. Further underlining the challenge, one source estimates that developing AI startup OpenAI’s language-generating GPT-3 system using a single GPU would’ve taken 355 years. “Improvements [in AI] are often underpinned by large increases in … computational complexity.

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Invoking IT to help revitalize Indigenous languages at risk of extinction

CIO

Tapping their longstanding relationship with Miami University’s IT services, Baldwin and his team gained access to servers and other necessary hardware, along with student developers to help build and maintain the platform. “We The Myammia Center alone did not have the resources to undertake such a huge digital transformation.

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