05/25/2024 – 22:18
Technology mogul Elon Musk told investors that he has plans to build a supercomputer to support the development of his Artificial Intelligence (AI) company, xAI, a specialized website reported this Saturday (25).
Musk wants the “computing gigafactory”, as he called this machine, to go into operation in the autumn of 2025 with more than 100,000 Nvidia chips integrated, and “he himself will personally take charge of delivering it on time”, according to the The Information website.
The supercomputer would be “at least four times larger than the largest GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) cluster devices that exist today,” such as those used by Meta to train its AI models, Musk said in a presentation to investors.
In 2022, ChatGPT – OpenAI’s innovative artificial intelligence tool – arrived on the market, generating strong competition between technology giants, such as Microsoft and Google, as well as between Meta subsidiaries or emerging companies, such as Anthropic and Stability AI.
Musk is one of the few investors in the world with enough capital to compete with OpenAI, Google and Meta in this area.
xAI is developing a conversational robot called Grok, capable of real-time access to the X platform, formerly Twitter, also owned by Musk.
The millionaire co-founded OpenAI in 2015 and left the company in 2018. In March, he filed a lawsuit against the company, accusing it of failing to fulfill its original nonprofit mission of making AI research available to everyone.
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