Turing Begins Construction of the ‘Gaggle Cluster,’ a Large GPU Cluster for AI Development InfrastructureThe largest scale proprietary GPU resource in Japan

Turing Inc. (Kashiwa City, Chiba; CEO: Issei Yamamoto; hereinafter “Turing”) announces the beginning of the ‘Gaggle Cluster’ series, a dedicated computing infrastructure for Large Language Models (LLMs) and multimodal models for achieving fully autonomous AI.

The first cluster, ‘Gaggle-Cluster-1’, will be equipped with 96 NVIDIA H100 GPUs and have a total computational power of 190 PFLOPS, making it the largest scale GPU computing infrastructure in Japan. The system is scheduled to begin operations in the first half of 2024.

Gaggle-Cluster-1 is composed of numerous GPU servers and maximizes inter-server communication bandwidth and storage speeds. This allows the cluster to function as a ‘single computer’, making it ideal for large-scale learning tasks. The distributed parallel learning technology allows for rapid and efficient training of models with very large parameters, such as LLMs.

The name ‘Gaggle Cluster’ was inspired by the image of geese flying together in the sky, symbolizing many GPUs working together to tackle large computational challenges.

Turing will accelerate the development of fully autonomous AI by leveraging the fast and scalable Gaggle Cluster and other cloud computing resources to develop its proprietary large-scale multimodal models.

Relationship Between LLM and Fully Autonomous Driving

Large Language Models (LLMs) are AI models that learn from large amounts of text data to generate human-like text and answer questions. Turing believes that fully autonomous driving requires an AI that understands the world at least as well as humans do, and is developing multimodal models such as LLMs to comprehend the world at a very high level through language.

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About Turing

Turing is startup with the stated mission, “We Overtake Tesla.” Their goal is to mass-produce fully autonomous EVs. It was co-founded in 2021 by Issei Yamamoto, developer of the AI shogi program “Ponanza” and a specially-appointed associate professor at Nagoya University, and Shunsuke Aoki, who earned his Ph.D. researching autonomous driving at Carnegie Mellon University. Turing is using deep learning AI technology to create a comprehensive autonomous driving society.

Company Overview

Company Name: Turing Inc.
CEO: Issei Yamamoto
Established: August 2021
Capital: 30 million yen (as of September 2022)
Headquarters: 4th Floor, East Tower, Gate City Osaki, 1-11-2 Osaki, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo
Business: Development and manufacturing of fully autonomous EVs
URL: https://tur.ing

Recruitment Information

We are seeking team members to join us in creating fully autonomous driving software and EVs.
Recruitment page: https://tur.ing/jobs

Media Contact

Turing Inc. Public Relations : pr@turing-motors.com