(Reuters) – Dell Applied sciences (NYSE:) is assembling half of the racks for the supercomputer that xAI is constructing, billionaire Elon Musk stated in a submit on social media platform X on Wednesday.
The U.S. businessman has just lately instructed traders that his synthetic intelligence startup xAI is planning to construct a supercomputer to energy the following model of its AI chatbot Grok, in line with a report by the Data in Might.
Dell CEO Michael Dell additionally stated in a separate submit on X that the corporate was constructing an “AI manufacturing facility” with artificial-intelligence heavyweight Nvidia (NASDAQ:) that might energy the following model of xAI’s chatbot Grok.
Coaching of AI fashions reminiscent of xAI’s Grok requires tens of hundreds of power-hungry chips which can be briefly provide.
Earlier this 12 months, Musk stated coaching the Grok 2 mannequin took about 20,000 Nvidia H100 graphic processing items (GPUs), including that the Grok 3 mannequin and past would require 100,000 Nvidia H100 chips.
Musk has stated he desires to get the proposed supercomputer operating by the autumn of 2025, in line with the Data.
Musk based xAI final 12 months as a challenger to Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Alphabet (NASDAQ:)’s Google. Musk additionally co-founded OpenAI.