(Reuters) – U.S. businessman Elon Musk recently told investors that his artificial intelligence startup xAI is planning to build a supercomputer to power the next version of its AI chatbot Grok, The Information reported on Saturday citing a presentation to investors.
Musk said he wants to get the proposed supercomputer running by the fall of 2025, as per the report, adding that xAI could partner with Oracle (NYSE:) to develop the massive computer.
xAI could not be immediately reached for comment. Oracle did not respond to a Reuters request for comment.
When completed, the connected groups of chips — Nvidia’s flagship H100 graphics processing units (GPUs) — would be at least four times the size of the biggest GPU clusters that exist today, The Information reported quoting Musk from a presentation made to investors in May.
Nvidia (NASDAQ:)’s H100 family of powerful GPUs dominate the data center chip market for AI but can be hard to obtain due to high demand.
Musk founded xAI last year as a challenger to Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Alphabet (NASDAQ:)’s Google. Musk also co-founded OpenAI.
Earlier this year, Musk said training the Grok 2 model took about 20,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs, adding that the Grok 3 model and beyond will require 100,000 Nvidia H100 chips.
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