Elon Musk, co-founder of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of X Holdings Corp., speaks at the Milken Institute Global Conference at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on May 6, 2024 in Beverly Hills, California.
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U.S. businessman Elon Musk recently told investors that his artificial intelligence startup xAI is planning to build a supercomputer for its next version, The Information reported on Saturday, citing an investor presentation. The artificial intelligence chatbot powered by Grok.
Musk reportedly said he hopes to have the proposed supercomputer operational by fall 2025, adding that xAI could work with Oracle Develop mainframe computers.
xAI could not immediately be reached for comment. Oracle did not respond to Reuters’ request for comment.
Once completed, connect the chipset – NVIDIA According to The Information, Musk was quoted as saying in a presentation to investors in May that the flagship H100 graphics processing unit (GPU) would be at least four times the size of today’s largest GPU clusters.
Nvidia’s powerful H100 series of GPUs dominate the market for artificial intelligence data center chips, but are hard to come by due to high demand.
Musk founded xAI last year as a challenger to Microsoft-backed OpenAI alphabetical Google. Musk is also the co-founder of OpenAI.
Earlier this year, Musk said that training the Grok 2 model would require about 20,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs, adding that the Grok 3 model and above would require 100,000 Nvidia H100 chips.
