Elon Musk plans xAI supercomputer, The Information reports By Reuters

(Reuters) – U.S. businessman Elon Musk recently told investors that his artificial intelligence startup xAI plans to build a supercomputer to run the next version of its AI chatbot Grok, The Information ) reported Saturday, citing a presentation to investors.

Musk wants to have the proposed supercomputer running by the fall of 2025, according to the report, adding that xAI could work with Oracle (NYSE:) to develop the large-scale computer.

xAI could not immediately be reached for comment. Oracle did not respond to Reuters’ request for comment.

When completed, the group of connected chips (Nvidia’s flagship H100 graphics processing unit (GPU)) will be at least four times the size of the largest GPU cluster in existence today, The Information quoted Musk as saying in a presentation to investors in May. I did.

Nvidia’s (NASDAQ:) H100 family of powerful GPUs dominates the market for data center chips for AI, but they can be hard to come by due to high demand.

Musk founded xAI last year to challenge Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Alphabet (NASDAQ:)’s Google. Musk also co-founded OpenAI.

Earlier this year, Musk said that about 20,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs would be needed to train the Grok 2 model, adding that the Grok 3 model and above would require 100,000 Nvidia H100 chips.