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| The AI founders who walked away from Bezos-backed Prometheus to model the universe |
| 2026-08-25 |
| [Reuters] SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 25 (Reuters) - A research duo, once pitched to lead the Jeff Bezos-backed Project Prometheus, on Tuesday unveiled what they've built on their own: an AI model that can take in and produce information so vast that a lone computer might not handle it. Their company, Accelerated Understanding Inc, says it has developed a different type of AI model that in tests handled 5 trillion pieces of data in a single prompt. That is some 5 million times the size of what Anthropic and Google's (GOOGL.O), opens new tab flagship models can typically consume — like reading Tolstoy's "War and Peace" not once but 5 million times in one sitting. The difference is that this new system is not built for understanding language. It is built for physics, said co-founders Anima Anandkumar and Benedikt Jenik, in an exclusive interview ahead of Tuesday's corporate launch. While systems like ChatGPT were created with the world's text data, letting them predict the right next word in a sentence when talking to users, this alternative AI has learned to predict physical phenomena in space and time. It dispensed with the Google-invented Transformer architecture — the "T" in ChatGPT — and instead processes physics data based on technology that Anandkumar helped pioneer years ago, called neural operators. |
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