Microsoft has declared its intent to win the elusive Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) race by plotting to spend $100 billion on a supercomputer with the help of partner OpenAI, of ChatGPT fame, with which it holds a profit sharing arrangement – and in which it has invested $10 billion. The project will have significant implications for the field of AGI, as well as for connectivity, integration and sustainability of such powerful machines. There is already evidence that the AI hardware race is changing the face of communications, for both local hardware clusters and edge compute, as well as over longer distances, by stoking demand for high throughput. For the wireless industry, it will increase the need for even higher frequencies…