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compute

[kuhm-pyoot] / kəmˈpjut /


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The company’s long-term goal is to usher in the commoditization of compute.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

By customizing how AI workloads interact with the underlying hardware, Turba Labs’ platform could double the availability of compute.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

We used the hydrogen formation history found through these simulations to compute predictions for how cosmic microwave background should appear if there were primordial magnetic fields, and tested these predictions against observations of the background.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

Nvidia looks to insurers to backstop AI chip loans, spread compute financing risk.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

I was to look through his long calculation sheets and compute an answer for him.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

The new model lets users download and customise the parameters, or "weights", that determine how it computes to their own servers.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

The harsh reality remains that anything that computes needs some form of system memory.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

With quantum computers, it will be possible to run massive computes to see how different molecules react with each other to find out what works and with what side-effects.

From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026

Google’s Willow chip matters not because of what it computes, but because of how it’s made — using industrial-grade fabrication that looks more like semiconductor manufacturing than a bespoke physics experiment.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 23, 2025

And during that week after his birthday, Mama Nee is working third shift, so that computes to just about every night.

From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone

Price said newer security machines that TSA is installing to replace traditional X-ray machines have computed tomography capabilities, which "can do a much better job of detecting liquid-based explosives".

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

Using computed tomography scanning data, Srivastava digitally separated the crushed bones and created a 3D printed reconstruction of the skull.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 15, 2026

“I computed the statistics,” he says, “and decided it was fifty-fifty.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

Somewhere in a Google lab, a chip called Willow just computed the structure of a molecule 13,000 times faster than the most powerful supercomputer on Earth.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 23, 2025

She worked through every minute of what was programmed to be a three-orbit mission, coming up with numbers for eleven different output variables, each computed to eight significant digits.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

But what if AI didn’t need more—more chips, more energy, more resources—to meet the intensifying demand for computing power?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

He said the company has broadened its customer base to include multiple hyperscalers — or large cloud companies that provide computing power.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

The Mac helped transform personal computing, while the iPod, iPhone and iPad changed the music, cellphone and digital-media businesses, respectively.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

As the physical home for the computing power used by phones, computers and AI, the demand for these centres will grow.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

It is possible to predict radio bursts from Jupiter with better reliability than weather forecasts on Earth, by computing the position of Io.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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