Key Points
- Dell and Nvidia are building an AI factory to power Grok for Elon Musk’s xAI.
- xAi is reportedly building the “Gigafactory of Compute” to enhance the generative AI chatbot.
In a recent announcement via X, Michael Dell, the CEO and Chairman of Dell Technologies, said that the company teams up with Nvidia GPUs to build an AI Factory to power Grok.
We’re building a Dell AI factory with @nvidia to power @grok for @xai @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/2aTYLtCBup
— Michael Dell (@MichaelDell) June 19, 2024
Grok is the AI model built by Elon Musk’s xAI company. The generative AI chatbot is based on a large language model and it was developed as an initiative by Musk in direct response to the meteoric rise of ChatGPT, the developer of which OpenAI, Musk co-founded.
Back in April, Musk’s xAI introduced Grok-1.5V the first-generation multimodal model. Besides the strong text capabilities, Grok can process a wide variety of visual information, including documents, diagrams, charts, screenshots, and photographs.
According to the official notes from xAI, the team is especially highlighting Grok’s capabilities in understanding the physical world.
Grok reportedly outperforms its peers in the new RealWorldQA benchmark that measures real-world spatial understanding.
xAI builds “Gigafactory of Compute”
Recently, we reported that xAI is planning to build a supercomputer called the “Gigafactory of Compute” that should be ready by fall 2025.
The new supercomputer could reportedly involve a collaboration with Oracle and aims to enhance the Grok AI chatbot.
With this latest development, Musk reportedly aims to surpass its rival GPU clusters in size and capability as well.
In a presentation for investors, the tech mogul revealed that the new supercomputer would use as many as 100,000 Nvidia’s H100 GPUs based on the Hopper architecture. This would make it at least four times larger than the largest existing GPU clusters.
According to the latest reports coming from BBC, chip-maker Nvidia became the world’s most valuable company after its share price climbed to an all-time high on Tuesday.
Also, in other recent news from Bloomberg, Musk’s X has the potential to become the next Venmo. The efforts to turn X into an “everything app” include a payment network onto the main social networking service.
