– Elon Musk wants to create a supercomputer for his start-up xAI
To make his start-up xAI a major player capable of competing with OpenAI, the billionaire intends to equip it with a supercomputer by fall 2025.
Elon Musk at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, May 6, 2024.
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“During a presentation to investors in May, Musk said he wanted the supercomputer to be operational by fall 2025 and that he would hold himself personally responsible for its on-time delivery,” the specialist site said on Saturday. The Information.
“Elon Musk has publicly stated that his artificial intelligence startup xAI will need 100,000 specialized semiconductors to train and run the next version of his conversational AI Grok,” underlines the site.
It is thus specified that Elon Musk told investors that “once completed, the groups of connected chips” from the manufacturer Nvidia “would be at least four times larger” than what currently exists, such as those “built by Meta Platforms to train its AI models.
xAI could join forces with tech giant Oracle, The Information also understands.
Billions of dollars of investment
This supercomputer “would require spending billions of dollars and having access to sufficient energy. But it could help the year-old startup catch up with older, better-funded rivals, which are also planning similarly sized AI chip clusters for next year and much larger clusters in the future. still the specialized site.
In early November, Elon Musk presented “Grok”, a generative AI chatbot like ChatGPT with real-time access “to the world’s knowledge via the X platform”, a “unique and fundamental advantage” according to the xAI website.
The leader of Tesla, SpaceX,
However, he co-founded OpenAI in 2015 with Sam Altman and others, with the status of a non-profit organization and with the aim of doing so-called “open Source” research, and not letting Google dominate this technology. major. But then he slammed the door, and is now one of society’s most virulent critics.
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