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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American entrepreneur Elon Musk recently told investors that his artificial intelligence startup xAI is planning to build a supercomputer to power the next version of its AI chatbot Grok, The Information reported Saturday citing a presentation to investors.
According to the report, Musk said he wants the proposed supercomputer to be operational by fall 2025, adding that xAI could partner with Prophecy to develop mainframe computers.
xAI could not immediately be reached for comment. Oracle did not respond to Reuters’ request for comment.
When completed, the chip groups are connected – by Nvidia The flagship H100 graphics processing units (GPUs) – will be at least four times the size of today’s largest GPU clusters, The Information reported citing Musk from a presentation to investors in May.
Nvidia’s powerful H100 GPU line dominates the data center chip market for AI but is difficult to obtain due to high demand.
Musk founded xAI last year as a challenge Microsoftpowered by OpenAI and alphabet Google. Musk also co-founded OpenAI.
Earlier this year, Musk said training the Grok 2 model required about 20,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs, adding that the Grok 3 model and above would requires 100,000 Nvidia H100 French fries.
