“With RSC, we can more swiftly train [AI] models that employ multi-modal signals — for example, to grasp the context of a post, including language, visuals, and tone,” said Shubho Sengupta, a software engineer at Meta, in a statement to a news site about the supercomputer.

Supercomputers, which consist of interconnected processors clumped into what are known as nodes, have become increasingly popular and powerful in recent years of AI research. The US Department of Energy’s Summit, which is supposedly the fastest supercomputer in the US and the second fastest in the world, has supported investigations into topics like unknown proteins. A lot of prominent IT corporations have their own supercomputers that they employ for a variety of purposes. Microsoft and Nvidia, to mention a few, are tech powerhouses.