AI development is accelerating — with some scientists suggesting machines will be more intelligent than the smartest humans within the next few years.

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That massive gain was largely driven by the rapid expansion of the artificial intelligence (AI) market, which drove many companies to ramp up their purchases of the company's data center graphics processing units (GPUs) to process complex machine learning and AI applications.

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