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It’s about material discovery[0], Aramco built a 250b model to help them improve efficiency [1].

[0] https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/millions-of-new-materi...

[1] https://www.aramco.com/en/news-media/speeches/2024/leap24--r...

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What's the connection there? The second link says it's not about materials discovery at all but rather their GigaPOWERS model, which is a physics simulation used to optimize CO2 injection into their fields (i.e. optimizing recovery). POWERS is old, it was in development for decades already. Given that they don't plan to use Groq for LLMs but simply for its parallel computation abilities. I wonder to what extent this deal - if it goes through - will seriously drain Groq, actually, as POWERS would not be like the code Groq was designed to run and so much of their performance comes from the way they tightly optimize for very specific calculations.

Hi there, I work for Groq.

Groq's system was designed to run arbitrary high performance numerical workloads. In the past it has been used for a variety of scientific computation tasks, including nuclear fusion and drug discovery.

https://www.alcf.anl.gov/news/argonne-deploys-new-groq-syste...

It's an assumption from my side, that they will utilize GenAI in material discovery for Aramco or SABIC[0]. Even if Groq won't fit that use-case a couple of billions with another hardware vendor is nothing if this paid off.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SABIC

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