DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF by Maryanne Kane, Journalist
DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF
By Journalists Edward Kane & Maryanne Kane
HUGE, NEW, AI SUPERCOMPUTER HUB IN TEXAS
SOURCE: Stock and UT AI Center Director Alex Dimakis
- The University of Texas Austin has opened one of the world's biggest and most powerful AI supercomputer hubs whose #1 priority is achieving medical breakthroughs. Here are some key facts:
- The new University of Texas "Center For Generative AI" will be one of the largest generative AI computing centers in the world
- It's comprised of 600 Nvidia H100s GPUs or graphic processing units
- The AI system enables rapid math computations, ideal to train AI models
- It's targeting breakthroughs in the biosciences and healthcare
- Key Focus: besides health care, also computer vision, natural language processing, materials science and other key disciplines
- It will offer world-class AI research and AI infrastructure to a wide range of partners
- Key purpose: create generative AI solutions for pressing world problems
- Key definer: the large and powerful size and scale of this AI hub for major innovation breakthroughs is in an academic environment - UT Austin.
PORSCHE PUSHES THE FUTURE OF HYPERCARS
- Porsche calls their new concept Mission B and it is their vision of the future of hypercars. Here's what we know:
- It's an all-electric hypercar concept
- Fusion of performance and design for road and track
- Digital creation of designer Zack Fu
- Electric motors on both axles
- Sleek aerodynamic design
- Gull doors
- Split windshield
- Vertical stabilizers, air diffusers, inverted wings
- Unique design is exciting auto lovers globally
- Said to be so precisely designed, it's the automotive equivalent of a fighter jet
- Stay tuned as performance details come from Porsche.
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