Elon Musk has confirmed that Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL) is assembling half of the racks for the supercomputer that his AI startup, xAI, is building to power the next version of its AI chatbot, Grok.
To be precise, Dell is assembling half of the racks that are going into the supercomputer that xAI is building
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 19, 2024
Dell CEO Michael Dell confirmed the collaboration on X, revealing that Dell and Nvidia are creating an "AI factory" to support xAI's needs.
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
Musk previously stated that training the Grok 2 model required 20,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs, and future models will need 100,000 H100 chips.
He aims to have the supercomputer operational by fall 2025.
xAI, founded by Musk, is positioned as a competitor to Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Google's AI efforts.