Elon Musk plans to team up with Grok to build a cutting-edge supercomputer for AI chatbots
After other major tech companies unveiled large-scale language models, Elon Musk revealed his AI plans, saying his AI startup will build a powerful supercomputer to power its chatbot, Grok.
Elon Musk, the mastermind behind companies like Tesla and SpaceX, shared this during a meeting with investors on May 25, 2024.
X's billionaire owner plans to have the supercomputer up and running by fall 2025. To achieve this goal, he has his eye on a potential collaboration with tech giant Oracle.
Musk emphasized the company's commitment to meeting deadlines.
The supercomputer will use an array of NVIDIA H100 GPUs and is expected to be four times larger than the existing GPU cluster.
Meanwhile, the UK government is also investing in AI technology, pledging £225 million to a University of Bristol-led AI supercomputer project, called Isambard-AI, which is expected to be 10 times faster than the UK's current fastest machines.
Another supercomputer, called Dawn, is being developed in Cambridge, and this one will be powered by more than 1,000 Intel chips.
Supercomputers provide researchers with significantly more computing power, greatly accelerating research efforts and accelerating advances in fields as diverse as clean energy, drug discovery, and safety testing.
Elon Musk's announcement coincided with the UK's AI Safety Summit, which brought together 100 experts from academia, industry and government to discuss the challenges posed by advanced AI technologies.
