Elon Musk is reportedly planning an xAI supercomputer to power a better version of Grok

Elon Musk instructed 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 hundreds of NVIDIA H100 GPUs and price 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 mentioned to be in use for coaching Grok 2.0.

In response to The Data, Musk additionally instructed buyers within the presentation that the deliberate GPU cluster could be a minimum of 4 instances the dimensions of something used right now by xAI rivals. Grok is presently 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.