China supercomputer achieves global first with 'brain-scale'

Research team says latest Sunway machine is on a par with the US Frontier, named as the world’s most powerful just weeks earlier. Its speed has made it possible to train an artificial intelligence program with 174 trillion parameters, rivalling the synapses in the human brain.

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