as in to calculate
to determine (a value) by doing the necessary mathematical operations
for the test we were required to compute the answers without using a calculator
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The emails appeared to show Musk acknowledging the need for the company to make large sums of money to fund the computing resources needed to power its AI ambitions, which stood in contrast to the claims in his lawsuit that OpenAI was wrongly pursuing profit.
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Clare Duffy, CNN, 14 Feb. 2025
As demand for computing services increases, the efficiency of meeting that demand also increases, offsetting some or all of the growth, says Koomey.
—Katie Fehrenbacher, Axios, 5 Feb. 2025
Last month, the president also announced a new $100 billion A.I. initiative between OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank to create computing infrastructure in the United States to power artificial intelligence.
—Kate Conger, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2025
The cloud computing subsidiary of Alibaba Group also found its Qwen2.5-Max showed comparable performance to OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet — both closed-source models.
—Britney Nguyen, Quartz, 29 Jan. 2025
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Clare Duffy, CNN, 14 Feb. 2025
As demand for computing services increases, the efficiency of meeting that demand also increases, offsetting some or all of the growth, says Koomey.
—Katie Fehrenbacher, Axios, 5 Feb. 2025
Last month, the president also announced a new $100 billion A.I. initiative between OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank to create computing infrastructure in the United States to power artificial intelligence.
—Kate Conger, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2025
The cloud computing subsidiary of Alibaba Group also found its Qwen2.5-Max showed comparable performance to OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet — both closed-source models.
—Britney Nguyen, Quartz, 29 Jan. 2025
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“Compute.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/compute. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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