{"id":176078,"date":"2023-11-15T13:27:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T19:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/microsoft-looks-to-free-itself-from-gpu-shackles-by-designing-custom-ai-chips"},"modified":"2023-11-15T13:27:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T19:27:34","slug":"microsoft-looks-to-free-itself-from-gpu-shackles-by-designing-custom-ai-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/microsoft-looks-to-free-itself-from-gpu-shackles-by-designing-custom-ai-chips","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft looks to free itself from GPU shackles by designing custom AI chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-looks-to-free-itself-from-gpu-shackles-by-designing-custom-ai-chips2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most companies developing AI models, particularly generative AI models like <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/tag\/chatgpt\/\">ChatGPT<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/11\/06\/openai-launches-gpt-4-turbo-and-launches-fine-tuning-program-for-gpt-4\/\">GPT-4 Turbo<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/07\/26\/stability-ai-releases-its-latest-image-generating-model-stable-diffusion-xl-1-0\/\">Stable Diffusion<\/a>, rely heavily on GPUs\u2019 ability to perform many computations in parallel make them well-suited to training \u2014 and running \u2014 today\u2019s most capable AI.<\/p>\n<p>But there simply aren\u2019t enough GPUs to go around.<\/p>\n<p>Nvidia\u2019s best-performing AI cards are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barrons.com\/articles\/nvidia-ai-chips-coreweave-cloud-6db44825#:~:text=The%20rising%20excitement%20over%20generative, technology%20industry's%20most%20precious%20resource.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reportedly<\/a> sold out until 2024. The CEO of chipmaker TSMC was less optimistic recently, <a href=\"https:\/\/wccftech.com\/nvidia-ai-gpu-shortage-could-last-till-2025-due-to-supply-constraints-says-tsmc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suggesting<\/a> that the shortage of AI GPUs from Nvidia \u2014 as well as chips from Nvidia\u2019s rivals \u2014 could extend into 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most companies developing AI models, particularly generative AI models like ChatGPT, GPT-4 Turbo and Stable Diffusion, rely heavily on GPUs\u2019 ability to perform many computations in parallel make them well-suited to training \u2014 and running \u2014 today\u2019s most capable AI. But there simply aren\u2019t enough GPUs to go around. Nvidia\u2019s best-performing AI cards are reportedly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}