Elon Musk is building a supercomputer using Nvidia H100 AI chips with a significant number of chips through his latest venture xAI.
xAI raised $6 billion in Series B funding and announced the development of an advanced chatbot named Grok.
Elon Musk, the entrepreneur and CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, is making waves in the tech industry once again with his latest venture, xAI. According to multiple reports, xAI is building a supercomputer using Nvidia's H100 AI chips. The exact number of chips required for this project has not been disclosed, but it is expected to be significant.
Musk's decision to build a supercomputer with xAI comes after the company raised $6 billion in a Series B funding round and announced the development of a chatbot named Grok. The chatbot, which is expected to rival ChatGPT and other popular AI models, has already generated buzz in the tech community due to its advanced capabilities.
Elon Musk reportedly stated that xAI would build a supercomputer and require 100,000 semiconductors.
Musk previously invested in OpenAI but sued them due to their close relationship with Microsoft, leading him to announce that xAI’s chatbot would be open-source.
Elon Musk's xAI venture is purchasing Nvidia AI chips for a new supercomputer.
xAI is building the new data center with Oracle.
Musk aims to have the supercomputer operational by fall 2025.
Nvidia stock reached an all-time high of 1,149.39 on Tuesday.
xAI announced a $6 billion funding round and has a valuation of about $24 billion.
Grok, xAI’s chatbot, was unveiled in late 2023 as a rival to ChatGPT, Gemini and others.
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The article contains an appeal to authority fallacy when it mentions that 'key investors include Valor Equity Partners, Vy Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Fidelity Management & Research Co., Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal and Kingdom Holding'. This is a fallacious way to establish the credibility or truth of a statement as it assumes that because these entities have invested in xAI, their investment makes the statements about xAI true.
key investors include Valor Equity Partners, Vy Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Fidelity Management & Research Co., Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal and Kingdom Holding