(Reuters) – U.S. entrepreneur Elon Musk recently told investors that his artificial intelligence startup xAI plans to build a supercomputer to run the next version of its chatbot Grok, The Information newspaper reported on Saturday, citing an investor presentation.
Musk said he wants the proposed supercomputer up and running by fall 2025, according to the report, adding that xAI could collaborate with Oracle (NYSE:) to develop the supercomputer.
xAI could not immediately be reached for comment. Oracle did not respond to Reuters' request for comment.
When completed, the connected chip sets — Nvidia's flagship H100 GPUs — will be at least four times the size of the largest GPU sets in existence today, The Information reported, citing Musk from a presentation to investors in May.
Nvidia's (NASDAQ:) H100 family of powerful GPUs dominates the AI data center chip market but may be difficult to obtain due to high demand.
Musk founded xAI last year as a competitor to Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Alphabet's (NASDAQ:) Google subsidiary. Musk also co-founded OpenAI.
Earlier this year, Musk said that training the Grok 2 model took about 20,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs, adding that the Grok 3 model and beyond would require 100,000 Nvidia H100 chips.
