NVIDIA, OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google executives reportedly met with executives from The White House to discuss the future of AI and the massive infrastructure scalability will require.
Top Tech Companies Are Now Collaborating With The US Government To Fuel The Progress of AI Computing Power
AI, as a technology, is now becoming a critical aspect of human life, and it has driven automation in a way we never imagined. Amid this, every other mainstream tech company is moving quickly towards adjusting their business to integrate the "AI hype," which is why firms like Microsoft and NVIDIA have witnessed massive market momentum. Now, the US government has taken an interest in the AI boom, inviting tech executives to discuss the prospects of the technology and the path to move forward, eventually becoming a dominant "AI nation."
BNN Bloomberg reports that the meeting included OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman and NVIDIA's CEO Jensen Huang. In addition, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google President Ruth Porat, Amazon's Cloud Chief Matt Garman, and Microsoft's President Brad Smith were present, which shows how big of an event this was. By including all mainstream companies, the US is proving that the nation is eager to be one step ahead of all others.
After the talks, the Biden administration created an interagency task force, mainly targeting the development of large-scale AI clusters in the nation. The key objective of this task force would be to aid in the process of establishing data centers in the nation, and to catalyze the process; the US government is planning to ramp up the energy supply of the country, with the Energy Department providing data-center developers with loans, grants and tax credits, hence fueling the overall process.
The need for high AI computing power has become a necessity for the AI markets to move forward, which is why companies like OpenAI are focusing upon building gigantic AI clusters, that not only require tremendous electricity supply, but unimaginable financial resources as well. It was claimed a few months ago that Microsoft and OpenAI were reportedly planning to build an AI supercomputer worth $100 billion that was said to be nuclear-powered, and this isn't absurd at all, given that electricity requirements are so high that even companies like Oracle are shifting to nuclear alternatives.
AI has revolutionized every sector of the world, and the technology still holds immense potential, transforming the lives of individuals to something unimaginable.
