Elon Musk mentions the ambitious five-year goal after Sam Altman announced plans to run ‚well over 1 million GPUs by the end of this year‘ and scale up the compute power by 100x.
Elon Musk isn’t stopping at acquiring 1 million Nvidia GPUs for AI training. The billionaire wants millions more as his startup xAI races to beat the competition on next-generation AI systems.
Musk today tweeted that xAI aims for compute power that’s on par with 50 million Nvidia H100 GPUs, the enterprise-grade graphics chip widely used for AI training and running chatbots. „The xAI goal is 50 million in units of H100 equivalent-AI compute (but much better power-efficiency) online within 5 years,” he said.
Musk’s tweet comes a day after rival Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, wrote in his own post about plans to run “well over 1 million GPUs by the end of this year,” with the goal of exponentially scaling up the compute power by “100x.
