SingularityNET, an artificial intelligence platform developer, has disclosed a $53 million investment in a modular supercomputer dedicated to decentralized artificial general intelligence (AGI).
The supercomputer will receive $26.5 million in the initial phase of the investment, as announced on July 23. This investment will include modular data center solutions from Ecoblox, graphics processing units (GPUs), processors from companies such as Nvidia, AMD, and Tenstorrent, and AI servers from Asus and Gigabyte.
A modular supercomputer is a high-performance computing system designed with a scalable and adaptable architecture that can be readily upgraded and expanded by incorporating or removing modules.
In other words, developers can augment the system’s capabilities without replacing the entire system. The modular supercomputer will be the world’s first dedicated to decentralized AGI and artificial superintelligence research, as per SingularityNET.
SingularityNET’s supercomputer will enhance the training of hybrid neural-symbolic computing architectures, including OpenCog Hyperon, large language models (LLMs) [including multimodal variations], and deep neural networks (DNNs).
A modular data center with Nvidia L40S GPUs, AMD Instinct and Genoa, Tenstorrent Wormhole server racks, servers with H200 GPUs, and Nvidia GB200 systems are among the platform’s most recent hardware purchases.
“The AI field has recently made significant progress due to the convergence of multiple factors, such as sophisticated learning algorithms and cognitive architectures, as well as vast amounts of data, processing infrastructure, and energy,” stated Ben Goertzel, CEO of SingularityNET.
The infrastructure will facilitate a significant transition to AGI continuous learning and self-improvement in high-load scenarios that involve large-scale knowledge distillation, pattern matching, and multi-step machine reasoning, as stated in the announcement.
The competition for artificial intelligence intensifies
SingularityNET’s investment results from an intensifying global debate regarding the advancement of artificial intelligence.
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) allocated 100 million Singapore dollars ($74.36 million) on July 22 to develop AI-based solutions and quantum computation for its finance sector.
Fetch.ai, a co-founder of the Artificial Superintelligence Alliance with SingularityNET and Ocean Protocol, announced a $100 million investment in its infrastructure program, Fetch Compute, in March. This investment will establish a more robust developer platform utilizing Nvidia H200, H100, and A100 GPUs.
The demand for high-performance hardware has increased as a result of the advancements in AI. The increasing demand from tech and manufacturing giants that rely on its semiconductors, including major clients like Apple, AMD, Intel, Nvidia, and Qualcomm, drove Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company to become the first Asian firm to surpass a trillion-dollar market capitalization on July 20.