Musk plans largest-ever supercomputer for xAI startup: Report

Billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk has advised traders he plans to construct a supercomputer dubbed “gigafactory of compute” to help the event of his synthetic intelligence startup xAI, an trade information outlet reported Saturday.

Musk desires the supercomputer—which is able to string collectively 100,000 Nvidia chips—operational by fall 2025, and “will hold himself personally responsible for delivering it on time,” The Data stated.

The deliberate supercomputer can be “at least four times the size of the biggest GPU clusters that exist today,” resembling these utilized by Meta to coach its AI fashions, Musk was quoted as saying throughout a presentation to investors this month.

Since OpenAi’s generative AI device ChatGPT exploded on the scene in 2022, the technology has been an space of fierce competitors between tech giants Microsoft and Google, in addition to Meta and start-ups like Anthropic and Stability AI.

Musk is among the world’s few traders with deep sufficient pockets to compete with OpenAI, Google or Meta on AI.

xAI is creating a chatbot named Grok, which might entry social media platform X, the previous Twitter which can also be owned by Musk, in actual time.

Musk cofounded OpenAI in 2015 however left in 2018, later saying he was uncomfortable with the profit-driven path the corporate was taking below the stewardship of CEO Sam Altman.

He filed a lawsuit in opposition to the corporate in March, accusing it of breaking its authentic non-profit mission to make AI analysis out there to all.

OpenAI argues that Musk’s lawsuit, in addition to his embrace of open supply growth, is little greater than a case of bitter grapes after leaving the corporate.

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