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Detailed explanation-1: -UPSC Mains. Q. Which technology company unveiled ‘AI Research Super-Cluster (RSC)’? Notes: Facebook parent company Meta has announced that its new Artificial intelligence supercomputer will be the fastest in the world by the middle of next year.

Detailed explanation-2: -Meta announced in January last week that it is building an AI supercomputer, the AI Research SuperCluster (RSC). The RSC is a powerful supercomputer which can perform tasks like translating text between languages and help identify potentially harmful content on Meta’s platform.

Detailed explanation-3: -Meet Andromeda The new machine, called Andromeda, has 13.5 million cores capable of speeds over an exaflop (one quintillion operations per second) at 16-bit half precision.

Detailed explanation-4: -OpenAI conducts AI research to promote and develop friendly AI in a way that benefits all humanity. The organization was founded in San Francisco in 2015 by Sam Altman, Reid Hoffman, Jessica Livingston, Elon Musk, Ilya Sutskever, Peter Thiel and others, who collectively pledged US$1 billion.

Detailed explanation-5: -Meta on Monday introduced its new AI supercomputer, the AI Research SuperCluster (RSC), which it says will be the world’s fastest AI supercomputer once fully built out in mid-2022. Artificial intelligence (AI) has been central to tech giants, including Meta.