Google Deepmind CEO says the memory shortage is creating an AI 'choke point'

Google Deepmind CEO says the memory shortage is creating an AI 'choke point'

Google's AI boss Demis Hassabis said the memory market came down to "a few suppliers of a few key components."PONTUS LUNDAHL/TT NEWS AGENCY/AFP via Getty ImagesGoogle DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said that the "whole supply chain" for memory chips is constrained."You need a lot of chips to be able to experiment on new ideas," Hassabis told CNBC.Google produces its own TPUs, but Hassabis said that there were still "key components" that were supply…

The Coming Memory Famine: Why Google’s DeepMind Chief Warns the AI Industry Is Heading for a Hardware Wall

The artificial intelligence industry has spent the past two years in a frenzied race to build ever-larger data centers, secure ever-more powerful chips, and train ever-more capable models. But according to Demis Hassabis, the Nobel Prize-winning head of Google DeepMind, the next bottleneck won’t be processors or energy — it will be memory. And the shortage, he warns, could arrive as soon as next year. In a striking admission that underscores the…