Allen Institute for AI launches big computing cluster for $152M project backed by Nvidia and NSF

Workers install equipment in the data center housing the new Ai2 computing cluster funded by Nvidia and NSF. (Ai2 Photo) The Allen Institute for AI says it has brought online and started using a powerful new computing system funded by Nvidia and the National Science Foundation, the first big milestone in a $152 million project to build open AI models for scientific research. Ai2, as the Seattle-based institute is known, was awarded the funding last August as part of the White House AI Action Pla