Elon Musk has big plans, hoping to create the world’s most powerful AI supercomputer, and it could be up and running by next year.
The Tesla chief wants to build the artificial intelligence supercomputer to power his AI chatbot Grok, The Information reported.
Musk, head of Twitter, hopes to acquire 100,000 Nvidia semiconductor chips for the ambitious plan, with plans laying out it’ll be in motion by 2025.
A presentation was given to investors of his AI startup, xAI, with Elon Musk reportedly outlining his plans to build the supercomputer, he called a ‘gigafactory of compute’.
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The machine would be at least four times bigger than the biggest GPU clusters that exist right now, by using Nvidia’s flagship H100 graphics processing units.
The xAI startup was announced on Sunday, and said the primary focus will be on developing advanced AI that are “truthful, competent, and maximally beneficial for all of humanity”.
“xAI will continue on this steep trajectory of progress over the coming months, with multiple exciting technology updates and products soon to be announced,” the tech startup detailed in a blog, announcing the $6 billion Series B funding round.
The first funds that are raised will be used to bring xAI’s initial products to mark, accelerate research and build advanced infrastructure, the company said.
xAI created Grok in November last year, calling it an ‘anti-woke’ alternative to ChatGPT, built by OpenAI and Google’s Bard.
Elon Musk announced at the time it would allow users to ask questions other AIs wouldn’t.
Grok is reportedly designed to work differently than other AI systems, as it accesses real-time data from Twitter (X). Previously, other firms were using the social media platform to train their models, but the billionaire shut this down after the surge of ChatGPT last year.
However, it also may mean it has less safety filters compared to its rivals, which has led to some commentators to call it controversial.
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