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tech billionaire Elon Musk has said his ai startup xAI is looking to build a massive supercomputer to run the next version of his Grok ai chatbot next year. Information reported Saturday, citing a presentation to investors.
Musk noted that xAI will require up to 100,000 specialized semiconductors to train and run the next version of Grok, and a “computing gigafactory” is expected to house those chips.
Musk, the CEO of Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) and SpaceX (SPACE), has added that it wants to have the proposed supercomputer up and running by the fall of 2025 and take personal responsibility for delivering the product as planned.
According Informationthe device will connect the Nvidia connection (NASDAQ:NVDA) flagship H100 graphics processing units (GPUs) and, once operational, will be at least four times the size of the largest GPU clusters that exist today.
The report added that xAI could collaborate with Oracle (New York Stock Exchange:ORCL) to develop the massive computer. In late 2023, xAI introduced Grok, as a chatbot rival to OpenAI's ChatGPT backed by Microsoft (MSFT), Google's (GOOG) Bard (GOOGL), and Microsoft's (MSFT) Bing ai.
