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Colossus (supercomputer)
Colossus is a supercomputer developed by xAI (company), xAI, an artificial intelligence (AI) company founded by Elon Musk. Construction on Colossus began in 2024 in Memphis, Tennessee, and is continuing to expand today. It is currently believed to be the world's largest AI supercomputer. Its purpose is to train the company's AI language model, Grok (chatbot), Grok, and also train the social media service Twitter, X. It also supports operations for Musk's other companies, such as SpaceX. Background Colossus was launched in September 2024 at a former Electrolux site in South Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, South Memphis to train the AI language model Grok. Reportedly, within 19 days of the project's conception, xAI was ready to begin construction. In comparison, other data centers have taken an average of four years to finalize the plans for a project, ship the equipment, and have it installed. The site was chosen because the abandoned Electrolux building could be repurposed to ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colossus Computer
Colossus was a set of computers developed by British cryptanalysis, codebreakers in the years 1943–1945 to help in the cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher. Colossus used vacuum tube, thermionic valves (vacuum tubes) to perform Boolean algebra (logic), Boolean and counting operations. Colossus is thus regarded as the world's first computer programming, programmable, electronics, electronic, digital electronics, digital computer, although it was programmed by switches and plugs and not by a stored-program computer, stored program. Colossus was designed by General Post Office (GPO) research telephone engineer Tommy Flowers based on plans developed by mathematician Max Newman at the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park. Alan Turing's use of probability in cryptanalysis (see Banburismus) contributed to its design. It has sometimes been erroneously stated that Turing designed Colossus to aid the cryptanalysis of the Enigma. (Turing's machine that helped decode Enigma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
