Washington:
American businessman Elon Musk recently told investors that his artificial intelligence startup xAI plans to build a supercomputer to power the next version of its AI chatbot, Grok, The Information reported on Saturday, citing an investor presentation.
Musk reportedly said he wants the proposed supercomputer to be up and running by fall 2025, adding that xAI may partner with Oracle to develop the behemoth.
xAI could not immediately be reached for comment, and Oracle did not respond to a Reuters request for comment.
When completed, the connected collection of chips — Nvidia's flagship H100 graphics processing unit (GPU) — will be at least four times larger than the largest GPU clusters in existence today, The Information reported in May, citing Musk in an investor presentation.
Nvidia's powerful H100 family of GPUs dominates the market for data center chips for AI, but they can be hard to come by due to high demand.
Mr. Musk founded xAI last year as a challenger to Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Alphabet Inc.'s Google. Mr. Musk is also a co-founder of OpenAI.
Musk said earlier this year that the Grok 2 model would require around 20,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs to train, while the Grok 3 model and beyond would require 100,000 Nvidia H100 chips.
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