Event: Accelerated Understanding's

Accelerated Understanding's co-founders Anima Anandkumar and Benedikt Jenik in Pasadena, California, on Sunday. Their new type of artificial intelligence model has learned to predict physical phenomena in space and time. | Accelerated Understanding / via REUTERS SAN FRANCISCO – A research duo, once pitched to lead the Jeff Bezos-backed Project Prometheus, on Tuesday unveiled what they’ve built on their own: an artificial intelligence model that can take in and produce information so vast that a lone computer might not handle it.Their company, Accelerated Understanding, says it has developed a different type of AI model that in tests handled 5 trillion pieces of data in a single prompt. That is some 5 million times the size of what Anthropic and Google’s flagship models can typically consume — like reading Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” not once but 5 million times in one sitting.The difference is that this new system is not built for understanding language. It is built for physics, said co-founders Anima Anandkumar and Benedikt Jenik, in an exclusive interview ahead of Tuesday’s corporate launch. In a time of both misinformation and too much information, quality journalism is more crucial than ever.By subscribing, you can help us get the story right. SUBSCRIBE NOW