Musk Plans xAI Supercomputer, Dubbed ‘Gigafactory of Compute’
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- Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup, xAI, plans to build a supercomputer using 100,000 specialized semiconductors to enhance its conversational AI, Grok, aiming for operational status by fall 2025.
- Musk refers to this project as a “gigafactory of compute,” which will utilize Nvidia’s H100 graphics processing units, making it at least four times larger than the current largest GPU clusters.
- This initiative is part of Musk's broader ambition to advance AI technology, with xAI nearing significant financial deals, including a $10 billion agreement to rent Oracle’s AI servers and close to raising $6 billion from investors like Sequoia.