Elon Musk has informed investors about his plans to create a supercomputer, which he refers to as the "gigafactory of compute," to bolster his artificial intelligence startup, xAI, according to The Information.
Musk aims to have this supercomputer, which will incorporate 100,000 Nvidia chips, up and running by the fall of 2025. He has committed to taking personal responsibility for ensuring its timely completion, The Information reported.
Described as at least four times larger than the largest GPU clusters in existence today, including those used by Meta for AI training, Musk presented this ambitious project to investors recently.
Since OpenAI's ChatGPT burst onto the scene in 2022, the tech giants, including Microsoft, Google, Meta, and startups such as Anthropic and Stability AI, have been in intense competition. xAI is building a 'Grok' chatbot that will have live access to social media site X, previously named Twitter and belonging to Musk.
Musk, who co-founded OpenAI in 2015, left the organization in 2018 and later spoke out against the profit-driven direction the company took under CEO Sam Altman's leadership.Musk filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in March, saying the company had strayed from its initial mission to make AI research available for all.
OpenAI dismissed the lawsuit Musk filed and his calls for open-source development, saying it's little more than a case of sour grapes.
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