Tech mogul Elon Musk has unveiled plans to construct a colossal supercomputer, dubbed the “gigafactory of compute,” to support his artificial intelligence startup, xAI, according to a report by The Information on Saturday.
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Elon Musk’s Emphasis on Building A Supercomputer
Musk reportedly aims to have this supercomputer, which will incorporate 100,000 Nvidia chips, operational by the fall of 2025. During a recent investor presentation, he stressed his commitment to ensuring the project’s timely completion.
According to the report, the planned supercomputer is anticipated to be “at least four times the size of the largest GPU clusters currently in existence,” including those used by Meta for AI model training, as Musk reportedly mentioned.
Since the launch of OpenAI’s generative AI tool, ChatGPT, in 2022, the AI field has become fiercely competitive, with major players like Microsoft, Google, Meta, and startups such as Anthropic and Stability AI vying for dominance.
Musk is one of the few investors with the financial capability to compete with AI giants like OpenAI, Google, and Meta.
xAI is currently developing Grok, a chatbot capable of accessing real-time information from X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, which Musk also owns.
Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015 but left in 2018, later expressing discomfort with the company’s shift towards profit under CEO Sam Altman’s leadership. In March, Musk filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging it had deviated from its original non-profit mission of making AI research universally accessible.
OpenAI has dismissed Musk’s lawsuit and his push for open-source development as mere dissatisfaction following his departure from the company.
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