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Suleyman: Inflection Will Deploy the World's Largest Supercluster by Autumn 2023

Mustafa Suleyman · Empathy in AI (Inflection AI’s Mustafa Suleyman) | Masters of Scale · Sep 29, 2023 · at 25:27

Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of Inflection AI, discusses deploying their $1.3 billion funding round into building supercomputing infrastructure.

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“And we also just announced our new funding round where we've been lucky enough to be able to raise 1.3 billion dollars. And we'll be using that to build the largest super cluster in the world, which we'll have up and running by the autumn of this year.”

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The claim, plainly

Inflection AI will have the largest AI supercomputing cluster in the world operational by autumn 2023.

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Assessment

Mustafa Suleyman claimed that Inflection AI would have the world's largest AI supercomputing cluster (planned at ~22,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs) operational by autumn 2023. The horizon is stated ('by the, the autumn of this year'). By the end of Autumn 2023 (December 21, 2023), Inflection AI had not completed or operationalized the 22,000 H100 cluster. In its official November 22, 2023 release for Inflection-2, the company confirmed that the model was trained on a cluster of only 5,000 H100 GPUs and explicitly stated that it was still looking forward to future training on 'the full capacity of our 22,000 GPU cluster.' Industry trackers (including TOP500 in November 2023 and Epoch AI) show larger operational clusters existed at the time (such as Microsoft's 14,400 H100 Eagle system) and confirm that Inflection's 22,000 GPU cluster remained in planned/incomplete status before the founding team's departure in March 2024.

Inflection AI's November 22, 2023 announcement confirmed that Inflection-2 was trained on a cluster of 5,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs, with the 22,000 GPU cluster remaining incomplete and not yet fully operational.
No public confirmation, technical disclosure, or benchmark verified that the 22,000 H100 cluster was operational by the stated deadline of December 21, 2023.
The November 2023 TOP500 list ranked Microsoft Azure's 14,400 H100 Eagle cluster at #3, with no entry for an operational 22,000 H100 Inflection cluster.
Epoch AI's supercomputer tracking dataset listed the 22,000 H100 system as 'Planned' and noted it was never confirmed completed prior to the March 2024 leadership departure to Microsoft.

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[1] ai-forum.com [2] forbes.com [3] siliconangle.com [4] analyticsindiamag.com [5] artificialintelligence-news.com [6] top500.org [7] top500.org [8] epoch.ai

"Inflection-2" "22,000" OR "5,000" "H100" Inflection AI 22000 H100 operational autumn 2023 Inflection AI supercomputer TOP500 November 2023 Inflection AI supercomputing cluster largest in the world 2023 "inflection.ai" "22,000" November 2023 "Inflection" "22,000" cluster operational date

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