KUALA LUMPUR – Billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk has told investors of his intention to construct a supercomputer, referred to as the “gigafactory of compute” to advance his artificial intelligence start-up xAI, according to an industry news outlet yesterday.
Musk wants the supercomputer – which will string together 100,000 Nvidia GPU chips – to be operational by fall 2025 and “will hold himself personally responsible for delivering it on time,” The Information said.
He said it would be “at least four times the size of the biggest GPU clusters that exist today,” such as those used by Meta to train its artificial intelligence (AI) models, Musk was quoted as saying during a presentation to investors this month.
Since OpenAI’s generative AI tool ChatGPT exploded on the scene in 2022, the technology has been an area of fierce competition between tech giants Microsoft and Google, as well as Meta and start-ups like Anthropic and Stability AI.
Musk is one of the world’s few investors with pockets deep enough to compete with OpenAI, Google, or Meta in the technology.
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