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Elon Musk said on Wednesday on social media platform X that Dell Technologies and Super Micro Computer would supply server racks for his artificial intelligence firm xAI’s supercomputer.
Musk revealed on X that Dell is building half of xAI’s supercomputer racks. In response to another post concerning the second partner, the billionaire responded “SMC”—Super Micro
Super Micro, renowned for its tight relationships to chip companies like Nvidia and liquid-cooling technologies, confirmed the cooperation with xAI
In a separate X post, Dell CEO Michael Dell stated the business was constructing a “AI factory” with Nvidia to power the next iteration of xAI’s chatbot Grok.
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Musk revealed earlier this year that training the Grok 2 model required 20,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs and that Grok 3 and beyond would need 100,000.
Musk aims to launch the supercomputer by autumn 2025, according to the Information.
Musk launched xAI last year to compete with Microsoft OpenAI, and Alphabet Google. Musk co-founded OpenAI.
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