Compute Economics & GeopoliticsNational Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
AIST announces ABCI 3.0
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ABCI 3.0 announced — 6,128 NVIDIA H200 GPUs in total, 6.2 exaflops peak at half precision (about 7 times the previous system), general availability from mid-January 2025
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The pillar that moved Japan's national AI compute up a generation. A national compute model shared by private startups and universities
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Officialaist.go.jphttps://www.aist.go.jp/aist_j/news/pr20241010.htmlAdded in Week 35, 2026 · See that week
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