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Supercomputer ‘exascale’ era merges with private AI race

Supercomputers are critical to national competitiveness. They enable everything from scientific research into climatic patterns to training of cutting-edge AI models. In recent years, the landscape of the world's most powerful computers has shifted. Once the preserve of governments, new computing clusters are increasingly built by the private sector. Countries like China have also stopped publicly disclosing the performance of their most powerful machines amid geopolitical tensions. As the AI race continues apace, public data on the world's top supercomputers is becoming more scarce

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