September 4, 2024
Elon Musk’s xAI brings ‘giant’ supercomputer online, aims to challenge openai’s gpt-4
Listen to the article Elon Musk’s latest AI startup, xAI, has already brought its new supercomputer, ‘Colossus’, online. Released over Labor Day weekend, Colossus is designed to train xAI’s large language model (LLM), Grok, which aims to compete with OpenAI’s GPT-4. Musk, known for his fast execution and ambitious goals, announced that Colossus is “the world’s most powerful AI training system.” It also revealed plans to double its capacity in the coming months by acquiring 50,000 of Nvidia’s advanced H200 chips, which are twice as powerful as the H100 models in use today. The supercomputer is located in Memphis, a


