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Based on what we could find, the claim that the US has a $20 million supercomputer capable of processing information faster than 8 billion humans combined is highly implausible and largely false, scoring low in truthfulness (1.10). Mainstream sources consistently show that the human brain operates at approximately 1 exaFLOP, which surpasses current supercomputers by orders of magnitude. Additionally, existing supercomputers costing far more than $20 million operate at petaFLOP levels, nowhere near the combined computing power of the global human population.
The cost figure cited in the claim also appears inaccurate given the scale and expense of top-tier supercomputers, which often run into hundreds of millions of dollars. The strongest evidence against the claim comes from scientific comparisons of brain versus computer processing power, where the…
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