Foxconn and Nvidia are building 'AI factories' to accelerate self-driving cars | TechCrunch

Paradox , 9 months ago

Can they build factories to brake too?

CanadaPlus , 9 months ago

So can someone explain what an AI factory is, from an engineering perspective? The fact there’s competition to build them suggests it’s not just a marketing term, but I can’t find a clear answer with a quick search.

Butterbee , 9 months ago

I can only imagine these are just crypto mining farms, but instead of running mining they train ai models

CanadaPlus , 9 months ago

I mean, isn’t that just a normal datacenter, then? Those already exist, and Foxconn at least probably owns some.

Butterbee , 9 months ago

Yes, but probably more video card focused than running the biggest epyc or xeon processors.

agressivelyPassive , 9 months ago

It’s just a marketing term.

CanadaPlus , 9 months ago

Yep, just looked into Dojo. They don’t use the same term at all. -1 to the journalist for making it sound like an industry standard thing.

ShaunaTheDead , 9 months ago

Uh oh, if Foxconn is in charge of an AI factory then we're sure to see our first AI suicide attempt in no time.

ultra , 9 months ago

First? Didn’t a police robot roll into a pool?

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Click here to see the summaryNvidia and Foxconn are working together to build so-called “AI factories,” a new class of data centers that promise to provide supercomputing powers to accelerate the development of self-driving cars, autonomous machines and industrial robots. The AI factory tie-up builds off a partnership between Nvidia and Foxconn announced in January to develop autonomous vehicle platforms. On Tuesday, Foxconn also committed to manufacturing ECUs with Drive Thor, Nvidia’s next-gen SoC, after production starts in 2025. As part of that partnership, Foxconn — which has been steadily unveiling off-the-shelf EV platforms for automakers to purchase — said the vehicles it makes as a contract manufacturer will be built with Nvidia’s Drive Hyperion 9 platform, which includes not only Drive Thor, but also a suite of sensors like cameras, radar, lidar and ultrasonic that are necessary for self-driving capabilities. Because these AI factories are essentially rivals to Tesla’s Dojo supercomputer, which the Elon Musk-owned automaker started production on over the summer. “This is a factory that takes data input and produces intelligence as an output,” said Huang, as Liu nodded his assent. — Saved 68% of original text.