Deep learning is changing the human experience but there is a battle raging for control of the underlying infrastructure.Meta, the company behind Facebook, recently revealed its own AI supercomputer, a cluster of approximately 6,000 GPUs. This makes it the ~5th fastest supercomputer in the world and underscores their ambition to own the infrastructure on which the world’s artificial intelligence is developed. As we’ve seen in the past decade, what’s good for Meta and other oligopolists genera...

Deep learning is changing the human experience but there is a battle raging for control of the underlying infrastructure.Meta, the company behind Facebook, recently revealed its own AI supercomputer, a cluster of approximately 6,000 GPUs. This makes it the ~5th fastest supercomputer in the world and underscores their ambition to own the infrastructure on which the world’s artificial intelligence is developed. As we’ve seen in the past decade, what’s good for Meta and other oligopolists genera...