Britain spends 900 million pounds to build a 10 billion-class supercomputer to create a "BritGPT" large language model

CTOnews.com, March 17 (Xinhua)-- the British government has announced that it will spend 900 million pounds (CTOnews.com Note: about 7.506 billion yuan) to build a 10-billion-class (exascale) supercomputer to create its own converter-based pre-training model (GPT) similar to ChatGPT, which will be temporarily named "BritGPT".

This supercomputer can achieve tens of billions of calculations, and there is only one supercomputer in the world that has reached this level, and that is the "Frontier" of Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States.

Pictured above, Frontier UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Jeremy Hunt, who announced the decision on Wednesday, said: "because artificial intelligence requires computing power, I have pledged about £900m today... to build 10 billion-class supercomputers."

CTOnews.com also learned from the report that the British Treasury has also launched "Manchester Prize", which earns 1 million pounds a year to reward organizations or individuals who have made outstanding innovations and contributions in the field of artificial intelligence.