Google intends to invest $ 100 billion in artificial intelligence, said the general director of Deepmind Demis Khassabis. At the TED conference in Vancouver, he answered a question about rumors regarding the Stargate supercomputer worth $ 100 billion, which is planned to be created by Google competitors – Microsoft and Openai. Hassabis did not disclose specific numbers, but emphasized that Google invests “more than this amount over time”
The head of DeepMind did not specify what Google will spend a giant budget and in what terms, but he assured that the company’s computing power exceed Microsoft resources and other market players. One of the directions of investment will probably be new equipment, including Axion processors of its own development on the architecture of ARM.
According to Google, Axion, 30% faster than the “fastest ARM processors for the mass market” and 50% faster and 60% more energy efficient than the X86-Chips of Intel and AMD. However, these data have not yet been confirmed by independent tests.
Part of the budget will probably be allocated DeepMind, which is engaged in the development of software for AI. Despite some unsuccessful projects, such as the study of materials using AI and the model of weather forecasting, the company has achieved progress in teaching AI with social skills, which is a significant step towards the creation of even more intelligent AI.
Hassabis emphasized that the company’s goals requires “many computing power”, which became “one of the reasons for cooperation with Google in 2014.
Although Google may not invest $ 100 billion into one supercomputer, the company definitely increases its computing resources, for example, using upcoming construction Date Center in Kansas City worth $ 1 billion.