{"id":52669,"date":"2024-05-26T15:52:01","date_gmt":"2024-05-26T05:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=52669"},"modified":"2024-05-26T15:52:01","modified_gmt":"2024-05-26T05:52:01","slug":"musk-plans-largest-ever-supercomputer-for-xai-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=52669","title":{"rendered":"Musk plans largest-ever supercomputer for xAI startup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk has told investors he plans to build a supercomputer dubbed &#8220;gigafactory of compute&#8221; to support the development of his artificial intelligence startup xAI, an industry news outlet reported Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Musk wants the supercomputer &#8212; which will string together 100,000 Nvidia chips &#8212; operational by fall 2025, and &#8220;will hold himself personally<br \/>\nresponsible for delivering it on time,&#8221; The Information said.<\/p>\n<p>The planned supercomputer would be &#8220;at least four times the size of the biggest GPU clusters that exist today,&#8221; such as those used by Meta to train<br \/>\nits AI models, Musk was quoted as saying during a presentation to investors this month.<\/p>\n<p>Since OpenAi&#8217;s generative AI tool ChatGPT exploded on the scene in 2022, the technology has been an area of fierce competition between tech giants<br \/>\nMicrosoft and Google, as well as Meta and start-ups like Anthropic and Stability AI.<\/p>\n<p>Musk is one of the world&#8217;s few investors with deep enough pockets to compete with OpenAI, Google or Meta on AI.<\/p>\n<p>xAI is developing a chatbot named Grok, which can access social media platform X, the former Twitter which is also owned by Musk, in real time.<\/p>\n<p>Musk cofounded OpenAI in 2015 but left in 2018, later saying he was uncomfortable with the profit-driven direction the company was taking under<br \/>\nthe stewardship of CEO Sam Altman.<\/p>\n<p>He filed a lawsuit against the company in March, accusing it of breaking its original non-profit mission to make AI research available to all.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI argues that Musk&#8217;s lawsuit, as well as his embrace of open source development, is little more than a case of sour grapes after leaving the<br \/>\ncompany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk has told investors he plans to build a supercomputer dubbed &#8220;gigafactory of compute&#8221; to support the development of his artificial intelligence startup xAI, an industry news outlet reported Saturday. Musk wants the supercomputer &#8212; which will string together 100,000 Nvidia chips &#8212; operational by fall 2025, and &#8220;will hold himself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1595],"class_list":["post-52669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-musk-plans-largest-ever-supercomputer-for-xai-startup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}