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[kuhm-pyoot] / kəmˈpjut /


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Some venture-capital firms are now reserving clusters themselves and renting the capacity back to their startups, or offering to guarantee contracts with compute providers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

The company’s thesis is that optimizing existing AI infrastructure could unlock significantly more compute than is currently available, said co-founder and co-Chief Executive Hans-Juergen Schmidtke.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

We used the hydrogen formation history found through these simulations to compute predictions for how cosmic microwave background should appear if there were primordial magnetic fields, and tested these predictions against observations of the background.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

“OpenAI accelerating growth is a very good sign for Oracle, as it reinforces OpenAI’s ability to live up to its expectations for compute capacity,” he explained.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

“It did not compute in my kid brain.”

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

The new model lets users download and customise the parameters, or "weights", that determine how it computes to their own servers.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

Meanwhile, the combined 609 lb-ft of torque computes to 4,400 pounds’ towing capacity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026

With quantum computers, it will be possible to run massive computes to see how different molecules react with each other to find out what works and with what side-effects.

From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026

“This new math can simulate them, because it computes the same way nature does.”

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2025

And during that week after his birthday, Mama Nee is working third shift, so that computes to just about every night.

From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone

Price said newer security machines that TSA is installing to replace traditional X-ray machines have computed tomography capabilities, which "can do a much better job of detecting liquid-based explosives".

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

Software also will be needed to present what AI has computed in a way that people can understand, he said.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 26, 2026

“I computed the statistics,” he says, “and decided it was fifty-fifty.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

This method constructs predictive models by sorting and combining data into groups, where they are computed in different combinations repeatedly until the best and most reliable data combination is identified.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 19, 2024

Her glowing eyes darted around as she computed a plan.

From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown

The explosive, unexpected success of Anthropic’s Claude Code had created a computing crunch, contributing to frequent outages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Even that, though, couldn’t ensure that Shazeer got the computing resources he wanted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

While splashy announcements have promised enormous amounts of new computing power coming soon, far less is actually available today, said Nick Frosst, co-founder of Canadian AI startup Cohere.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

The challenge isn’t only securing computing power but accurately predicting how much firepower startups will need as they scale.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Engineers still made the pilgrimage to her desk, asking for her help with their computing.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly




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