It's been a BIG week in AI news 🗞 (Practical AI #173)

This last week has been a big week for AI news. BigScience is training a huge language model (while the world watches), and NVIDIA announced their latest “Hopper” GPUs. Chris and Daniel discuss these and other topics on this fully connected episode!

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Featuring:

• Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

BigScience Language Model Training

• Model Details
• Live model logs and training curves

H100 from NVIDIA

• [White paper](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/h100/
  https://cf-store.widencdn.net/nvdam/8/4/a/84ae26c1-6774-4083-a41d-4f3d82a6a449.pdf)
• Omniverse platform
• Earth-2 Supercomputer

Stanford’s AI Index 2022

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