Elon Musk told investors this month that his startup xAI plans to build a supercomputer by fall 2025 that would power a future, smarter version of his Grok chatbot. Information reports. This supercomputer, which Musk reportedly referred to as a “computing gigafactory,” would rely on tens of thousands of NVIDIA H100 GPUs and would cost billions of dollars to build. musk has technology/teslas-musk-predicts-ai-will-be-smarter-than-smartest-human-next-year-2024-04-08/” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank” data-ylk=”slk:previously said;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:2;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas”>previously mentioned The third version of Grok will require at least 100,000 chips, five times more than the 20,000 GPUs said to be used to train Grok 2.0.
According InformationMusk also told investors in the presentation that the planned GPU pool would be at least four times the size of anything used by xAI's competitors today. Grok is currently on version 1.5, which was released in April, and is now touted to process visual information such as photographs and diagrams, as well as text. x earlier this month began rolling out ai-generated news summaries powered by Grok to premium users.