Nvidia is building Israel’s most powerful supercomputer for AI applications

As the demand for artificial intelligence (AI)-powered apps soars globally, GPU maker Nvidia has said that it was building Israel’s most powerful AI supercomputer that will cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

According to the company, the cloud-based system will be partly operational by the end of 2023. News agency Reuters cited Gilad Shainer, a senior vice president at Nvidia, as saying that Nvidia worked with 800 startups in Israel and tens of thousands of software engineers.

The system, called Israel-1, is expected to deliver performance of up to eight exaflops of AI computing that will essentially make it one of the world’s fastest AI supercomputers.