Billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk has told investors he plans to build a supercomputer dubbed the “Gigafactory of Computing” to help develop his artificial intelligence startup xAI, industry news outlets reported Saturday.
Musk wants the supercomputer, powered by 100,000 Nvidia chips, to be up and running by fall 2025, and “will take personal responsibility for delivering it on time,” the Information reported.
The planned supercomputer will be “at least four times the size of the largest GPU clusters that exist today,” such as the one Meta uses to train AI models, Musk reportedly said in an investor presentation this month.
Since the launch of OpenAi’s generative AI tool ChatGPT in 2022, the technology has become an area of intense competition between tech giants Microsoft and Google, as well as Meta and startups such as Anthropic and Stability AI.
Musk is one of the few investors in the world with enough financial clout to compete with OpenAI, Google, and Meta in the AI space.
xAI is developing a chatbot called Grok that will have real-time access to Musk’s owned social media platform X (formerly Twitter).
every Monday
Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015 but left in 2018, later saying he was uncomfortable with the company’s profit-driven direction under CEO Sam Altman.
He filed a lawsuit against the company in March, accusing it of violating its original non-profit mission of making AI research available to everyone.
OpenAI argues that Musk’s lawsuits and support for open source development are just sour grapes after he left the company.
