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🤖🔥 xAI's Massive AI Cluster Debut, Nvidia's Blackwell Dominates MLPerf, & LLM Tokenization Challenges!

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Himanshu Maggu
September 03, 2024

Welcome back! This is The AI Takeover, read this daily so you don’t get left behind by AI! In todays newsletter:

- 🚨 xAI Unveils World’s Largest AI Training Cluster: 100,000 Colossus H100
- 🚨 LLM Limits: Tokenization Issues & Advances in Math
- 🚨 Nvidia's Blackwell Tops MLPerf, but Untether AI & AMD Shine Too

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xAI Unveils World’s Largest AI Training Cluster: 100,000 Colossus H100

xAI has launched the world's largest training cluster, the 100,000 Colossus H100, and plans to double its size in the coming months. This massive cluster aims to significantly enhance AI model training capabilities and performance, setting a new benchmark in the industry.

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LLM Limits: Tokenization Issues & Advances in Math

Large language models can struggle with tasks like counting letters because of their tokenization methods, revealing architectural limitations in text understanding. Despite these challenges, progress continues with innovations like OpenAI's Strawberry, which enhances reasoning, and Google DeepMind's AlphaGeometry 2, designed for formal mathematics. These advancements aim to address current shortcomings in LLM performance.

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Nvidia's Blackwell Tops MLPerf, but Untether AI & AMD Shine Too

Nvidia's Blackwell chip led in MLPerf's LLM Q&A benchmark with top per-GPU performance and 4-bit floating-point precision. However, competitors like Untether AI and AMD also showed strong results, especially in energy efficiency. Untether AI's speedAI240 chip excelled in the edge-closed category, highlighting the diverse strengths of emerging AI inference hardware.

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