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Microsoft completes top-five Azure supercomputer for OpenAI

Microsoft announced a completed Azure supercomputer built with and exclusively for OpenAI, containing more than 285,000 CPU cores, 10,000 GPUs, and 400-gigabit-per-second connectivity per GPU server. Microsoft described it as one of the five largest publicly disclosed systems and a platform for training very large general-purpose AI models.

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CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
TOWARD DOOM31confidence 90/100

Why it moved the index

A completed, dedicated frontier-training system materially increased OpenAI's scaling capacity and deepened the Microsoft-OpenAI competitive alliance. No exact model was disclosed in the dated source, so no model relationship is inferred.

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  1. R1
    Toward 31 · confidence 90

    New source-verified historical frontier-compute event absent from the durable corpus.

    11 Aug 2026
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