(Reuters) – U.S. entrepreneur Elon Musk recently told investors that his artificial intelligence startup xAI is planning to build a supercomputer to power the next version of his Grok ai chatbot, The Information reported on Saturday citing a presentation to investors. .
Musk said he wants the proposed supercomputer up and running by fall 2025, according to the report, adding that xAI could partner with Oracle (NYSE:) to develop the massive computer.
xAI could not immediately be reached for comment. Oracle did not respond to a Reuters request for comment.
When finished, the connected chip clusters — Nvidia's flagship H100 graphics processing units (GPUs) — would be at least four times the size of the largest GPU clusters that exist today, The Information reported, citing Musk. in a presentation to investors in May.
Nvidia's (NASDAQ ) H100 family of powerful GPUs dominates the market for data center chips for ai, but can be difficult to obtain due to high demand.
Musk founded xAI last year as a rival to Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Alphabet's Google (NASDAQ . Musk also co-founded OpenAI.
Earlier this year, Musk said that training the Grok 2 model required around 20,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs, adding that the Grok 3 model and later will require 100,000 Nvidia H100 chips.
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