Elon Musk has reportedly informed the investors that his startup, xAI, aims to make a supercomputer by fall 2025.
The supercomputer would support a more advanced version of its Grok chatbot.
Musk reportedly described this supercomputer as a “gigafactory of compute,”
Elon Musk reportedly informed investors this month that his startup, xAI, aims to make a supercomputer by fall 2025, which would support a more advanced version of its Grok chatbot. Let’s delve into the details.
Also read: xAI introduces Grok-1.5V AI model with image processing capabilities: Check details
Musk described this supercomputer as a “gigafactory of compute,” reports The Information (via Engadget).
This supercomputer would utilise tens of thousands of NVIDIA H100 GPUs and require billions of dollars to construct.
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Previously, Musk stated that the third version of Grok would necessitate a minimum of 100,000 of the chips — a significant jump from the 20,000 GPUs reportedly utilised for training Grok 2.0.
In the presentation, Musk also informed investors that the planned GPU cluster would be at least four times larger than anything currently used by xAI’s competitors.
In my opinion, Elon Musk’s ambition to create a “gigafactory of compute” highlights his commitment to advancing AI technology. The planned supercomputer, utilising tens of thousands of NVIDIA H100 GPUs, could significantly outpace current industry standards.
In related news, last month, xAI introduced the Grok-1.5 Vision or Grok-1.5V AI model. Grok-1.5V is the company’s first multimodal model. With Grok-1.5V, the AI chatbot can understand a wide variety of visual information, including documents, diagrams, charts, screenshots and photographs.
According to the company, the Grok-1.5V’s performance surpasses that of its peers in xAI’s new RealWorldQA benchmark. For those who are unaware, xAI’s RealWorldQA benchmark is designed to evaluate basic real-world spatial understanding capabilities of multimodal models. In the coming months, xAI plans to make significant improvements in both capabilities across various modalities such as images, audio, and video. To know more, read this article- xAI introduces Grok-1.5V AI model with image processing capabilities: Check details
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