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World's largest computer chip WSE-3 will power massive AI supercomputer 8 times faster than the current record-holder

World's largest chip will power massive AI supercomputer is 8 times faster than the current record-holder.

Scientists have built the world's largest computer chip — a behemoth packed with 4 trillion transistors. The massive chip will one day be used to run a monstrously powerful artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputer, its makers say.

The new Wafer Scale Engine 3 (WSE-3) is the third generation of the supercomputing company Cerebras' platform designed to power AI systems, such as OpenAI's GPT-4 and Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus.

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