China supercomputer achieves global first with 'brain-scale'

Chinese scientists say a new supercomputer is so fast it has successfully run an artificial intelligence model as sophisticated as a human brain. The achievement puts the Newest Generation Sunway supercomputer on par with Frontier, the latest machine built by the US Department of Energy, which earlier this month was named the world’s most powerful. The Chinese team used the...

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