Musk plans largest-ever supercomputer for xAI startup : Report
Elon Musk has announced his plans to build a supercomputer to support his artificial intelligence startup xAI. Here are some key points about the project:
Project name: The supercomputer is dubbed the "gigafactory of computing."
Size: It will be at least four times the size of the biggest GPU clusters that exist today, such as those used by Meta to train its AI models.
Nvidia chips: The supercomputer will string together 100,000 Nvidia chips.
Target operational date: Musk wants the supercomputer to be operational by fall 2025.
Personal responsibility: Musk has said that he will hold himself personally responsible for delivering the project on time.
xAI: xAI is developing a chatbot named Grok, which can access social media platform X (formerly Twitter) in real-time.
Musk and OpenAI: Musk cofounded OpenAI in 2015 but left in 2018, later saying he was uncomfortable with the profit-driven direction the company was taking. He filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in March, accusing it of breaking its original non-profit mission to make AI research available to all.
Since OpenAi’s generative AI tool ChatGPT exploded on the scene in 2022, the technology has been an area of fierce competition between tech giants Microsoft and Google, as well as Meta and start-ups like Anthropic and Stability AI.
Musk is one of the world’s few investors with deep enough pockets to compete with OpenAI, Google, or Meta on AI.
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