Treasury announces plans for exascale computer so as not to risk losing out to China
The UK government is to invest £900m in a cutting-edge supercomputer as part of an artificial intelligence strategy that includes ensuring the country can build its own “BritGPT”.
An exascale computer can be used for training complex AI models, but also have other uses across science, industry and defence, including modelling weather forecasts and climate projections. An exascale computer is one that can carry out more than one billion billion simple calculations a second, a metric known as an “exaflops”. Only one such machine is known to exist, Frontier, which is housed at America’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and used for scientific research – although supercomputers have such important military applications that it may be the case that others already exist but are not acknowledged by their owners.
Last month, MPs were told the UK needed to invest in large language models or it risked losing out to states such as China and major corporations.
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