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UK vs India: Two Power Grids Meet the AI Boom, With Opposite Problems Every AI answer needs a data centre, and every data centre needs a power grid. Compare the United Kingdom and India and you see the two opposite ways a country’s grid can meet the AI boom: one has demand queued up for … Read more
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, earns billions and loses bigger billions at the same time. Both are true. Here is the maths, in plain words. Money in 2023: about 1 to 2 billion dollars. 2024: 3.7 billion. 2025: 13.1 billion. 2026: about 30 billion expected. 2027: about 62 billion planned. Where it comes from: over … Read more
What exactly is a computing bill? OpenAI does not own most of its computers. It rents them by the hour from Microsoft, Oracle and Amazon, the way you hire a taxi instead of buying a car. The rental price rolls everything into one: the NVIDIA chips, the building, the electricity, the cooling. That rent is … Read more
The Secret Journey of Your AI Question: From Phone to Power Grid and Back Ask an AI chatbot a question and the answer lands in two or three seconds. In those seconds, your words take a round trip most people never think about. Here is the whole journey, second by second. Second 0: You … Read more
What “training” means An AI model like GPT-3 is not born knowing anything. Before it can chat with anyone, it must be trained: computers read enormous amounts of text from books and the internet, over and over, for weeks or months without stopping, adjusting billions of internal settings until the model learns language. Think of … Read more
What One 100-Word AI Answer Really Costs in Water and Electricity You type a question, press send, and a neat 100 word answer appears in seconds. It feels free. It is not. Somewhere, a data centre just spent real water and real electricity to write it. How much exactly is one of the most argued-over … Read more
The Four Pillars of AI Infrastructure: Chips, Electricity, the Grid and Water AI feels like software, but it stands on four very physical pillars. Remove any one of them and ChatGPT goes silent. Here is what each pillar is, in plain words. First, the building: the data centre The four pillars all live inside … Read more
Google AI Brain Drain: Nobel Laureate and Transformer Inventor Leave in One Week Within seven days, Google lost two of the most important AI researchers alive. One built the entire foundation of modern AI chatbots. The other won a Nobel Prize. Both walked into the arms of Google’s biggest rivals. What Just Happened On 18 … Read more
JNN: Dr. Ekaterina, could you share your background on how you entered the field of AI and machine learning? Dr. Ekaterina: My undergraduate background is in chemistry with forensic analysis. My family are pharmacists, so I started in the scientific field. Later, I worked as a proprietary futures trader. Between 2005 and 2007, machines started … Read more