Musk Plans xAI Supercomputer, Dubbed ‘Gigafactory of Compute’

Elon Musk has said publicly that his artificial intelligence startup xAI will need a whopping 100,000 specialized semiconductors to train and run the next version of its conversational AI Grok. To make the chatbot smarter, he’s recently told investors xAI plans to string all these chips into a single, massive computer—or what he’s calling a “gigafactory of compute.” In a May presentation to investors, Musk said he wants to get the supercomputer running by the...