The Tianjin Artificial Intelligence Computing Center officially opened its doors in Tianjin, China. The center is a joint effort between the Hebei District of Tianjin and Chinese technology giant Huawei. The goal of this project is to provide a comprehensive public computing service to various organizations, such as enterprises, universities, and scientific research institutions, who require large amounts of computing power to run applications using artificial intelligence (AI). Tianjin AI Computing Center opens with 100 petaflops of computing power The first batch of the center's 100 petaflops of computing power has already been fully deployed, with plans to add another 200 petaflops in the future. A petaflop is a unit of computing speed that represents one quadrillion floating-point operations per second, making this center capable of handling 300 quadrillion operations per second once it is fully operational. To put this in perspective, a regular desktop computer has a comput...