Investing.com – Dell Technologies Inc (NYSE:), led by CEO Michael Dell, announced a partnership with NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:) to build an AI factory designed to enhance the capabilities of Grok, an AI model developed by Elon Musk. ,xAI.
We're building the Dell AI Factory using… @nvidia To power @understands extensively to @xai @elonmusk
– Michael Dell (@MichaelDell) June 19, 2024
Grok, an innovative AI-powered chatbot, was created as a response to the growing popularity of ChatGPT, a product of OpenAI, which Musk co-founded. Grok, which is based on a large language model, has the ability to process a wide range of visual information, including documents, graphs, charts, screenshots, and photographs, in addition to its powerful textual capabilities.
xAI's Grok-1.5V, a first-generation multimedia model, was introduced in April. The company has emphasized Grok's ability to understand the physical world, with the AI model reportedly outperforming its competitors on the RealWorldQA benchmark, a measure of real-world spatial understanding.
In response to a query about another collaborator, Musk responded with “SMC” — short for Super Micro Computer, a server manufacturer based in San Francisco.
Super Micro Computer Inc (NASDAQ:), known for its strong relationships with chip companies like Nvidia and its innovative liquid cooling technology, confirmed its partnership with xAI to Reuters.
Earlier in June, xAI announced plans to build a supercomputer, dubbed the “Gigafactory of Compute,” that is expected to be up and running by the fall of 2025. The project is expected to be a collaborative effort with Oracle (NYSE:) It aims to enhance the capabilities of the Grok AI chat software.
The upcoming supercomputer is set to use up to 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs based on the Hopper architecture, making it four times larger than the largest current GPU clusters. The move by Musk is seen as an attempt to outperform competing GPU chipsets in terms of size and capabilities.