Elon Musk is reportedly planning an xAI supercomputer to energy a greater model of Grok

Elon Musk advised buyers this month that his startup xAI is planning to construct a supercomputer by the autumn of 2025 that will energy a future, smarter iteration of its Grok chatbot, The Information stories. This supercomputer, which Musk reportedly known as a “gigafactory of compute,” would depend on tens of 1000’s of NVIDIA H100 GPUs and value billions of {dollars} to construct. Musk has previously said the third model of Grok would require a minimum of 100,000 of the chips — a fivefold improve over the 20,000 GPUs stated to be in use for coaching Grok 2.0.

In line with The Data, Musk additionally advised buyers within the presentation that the deliberate GPU cluster can be a minimum of 4 instances the scale of something used in the present day by xAI rivals. Grok is at present in model 1.5, which was launched in April, and is now touted to process visual information like images and diagrams in addition to textual content. X earlier this month began rolling out AI-generated news summaries powered by Grok for premium customers.