Microsoft unveils an AI virtual machine powered by Azure and NVIDIA

Date:
Tue, 14 Mar 2023 13:00:57 +0000

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Microsofts VMs have helped develop OpenAI-authored tools like ChatGPT in the past, and its just announced another one.

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Microsoft has announced details of its latest VM destined for artificial intelligence workloads as the company continues to develop and release AI products following a substantial investment in OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT.

In a blog post , the company stressed the important role its GPU-accelerated VMs play in providing the foundation for many generative AI advancements,
both in-house and from other companies, including its own Azure OpenAI
Service which puts AI writers like GPT-3.5, Codex, and DALL-E 2 into the
hands of its customers.

With its new ND H100 v5 virtual machine, Microsoft promises significantly faster performance compared with the previous-generation ND A100 v4 virtual machines. Microsoft Azure VM for AI

The updated VM makes use of eight NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs with the
option to scale this up to a figure in the thousands. Its also home to 4th
Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors and 16 channels of 4800 MHz DDR5 DIMMs.

With this move, Microsoft aims to deliver some of the latest, highest-performance technology at a more affordable rate to startups working in the AI field, many of which will be comparing their own stories to OpenAIs recent success. That companys co-founder, Greg Brockman, said: Read more

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Co-designing supercomputers with Azure has been crucial for scaling our demanding AI training needs, making our research and alignment work on
systems like ChatGPT possible.

Moving forward, the ND H100 v5 VMs will need to be able to handle large amounts of training for significant periods of time as the world seeks to
make artificial intelligence as reliable and accurate as possible.

The new H100-powered VMs are now available for preview as the tech giant
looks to make them part of its standard offering in the Azure portfolio.
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