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accelerator

[ak-sel-uh-rey-ter] / ækˈsɛl əˌreɪ tər /
NOUN
machine for giving charged particles high velocity
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Touchmark, an AI startup that was accepted by Y Combinator in May, was immediately granted $1 million in token credits from OpenAI and Anthropic before the accelerator even kicked off its summer session.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 2026

As England hit the accelerator, India became ragged - Shivam Dube had an awful time in the field.

From BBC Jul. 7, 2026

It was ready for the AI explosion, having already spent 15 years building an ecosystem made of four key parts: AI accelerator chips, CPUs, high-speed networking chips, and mature software that tied it all together.

From Barron's Jun. 28, 2026

Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla’s vice president of AI software, said on X that the driver had manually overridden the system by “by pressing the accelerator all the way to 100%.”

From MarketWatch Jun. 24, 2026

While the twenty-seven-inch accelerator was still on the drawing board, Lawrence and Livingston worked intently to improve the performance of the eleven-inch chamber that Livingston had built for the old magnet.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

However, the authors emphasize that being beyond the reach of current particle accelerators does not make the theory impossible to test.

From Science Daily Jul. 5, 2026

He noted the company’s products lines — including CPUs for agentic artificial intelligence, AI accelerators, custom-chip engagements and connectivity chips.

From MarketWatch Jun. 24, 2026

OpenAI and Broadcom first announced a partnership to build AI accelerators last October.

From Barron's Jun. 24, 2026

SK Hynix, a key supplier of high-bandwidth-memory for Nvidia’s AI accelerators, posted a fivefold jump in quarterly net profit.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 22, 2026

Particle accelerators are the microscopes of the subatomic world, and the more energy you put into those particles—the more powerful the microscope—the smaller the objects you can see.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife




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