Elon Musk is reportedly planning an xAI supercomputer to power a better version of Grok

Elon Musk instructed buyers this month that his startup xAI is planning to construct a supercomputer by the autumn of 2025 that may energy a future, smarter iteration of its Grok chatbot, The Information experiences. This supercomputer, which Musk reportedly known as a “gigafactory of compute,” would depend on tens of 1000’s of NVIDIA H100 GPUs and price billions of {dollars} to construct. Musk has previously said the third model of Grok would require no less than 100,000 of the chips — a fivefold enhance over the 20,000 GPUs stated to be in use for coaching Grok 2.0.

In line with The Data, Musk additionally instructed buyers within the presentation that the deliberate GPU cluster could be no less than 4 occasions the dimensions of something used at the moment by xAI rivals. Grok is at the moment in model 1.5, which was launched in April, and is now touted to process visual information like pictures and diagrams in addition to textual content. X earlier this month began rolling out AI-generated news summaries powered by Grok for premium customers.