Employees work behind an evaluation board in a lab at the d-Matrix office in Santa Clara, on Oct. 16, 2024. Photo by Jeff Chiu, AP Photo
Welcome to CalMatters, the only nonprofit newsroom devoted solely to covering statewide issues that affect all Californians. Sign up fora commentary forum aiming to broaden our understanding of the state and spotlight Californians directly impacted by policy or its absence. Learn morecaught the attention of tech billionaires, large corporations, Hollywood, researchers and the media for good reason — it aimed to establish some of the first guardrails for AI in America.
Computing power — called “compute” in the industry — is the highway system of the AI revolution, the essential infrastructure required to develop and run advanced AI systems. At its core, this infrastructure consists of massive data centers filled with specialized chips that provide computers with the raw processing power needed to develop and run AI systems.by just three companies: Amazon, Google and Microsoft.
As home to both Silicon Valley and the world’s fifth-largest economy, California’s CalCompute proposal offers a vital model for how public computing infrastructure could work — and a template for federal action., a $400 million initiative to create public computing infrastructure through a consortium of universities. In the United Kingdom, the government’s investment in a newThe window for shaping the next digital economy won’t stay open forever.
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