Elon Musk says the new Gen-AI training cluster was built in just 122 days
We recently got a glimpse of what $1 billion worth of AI GPUs looks like when Elon Musk shared a brief video tour of Cortex, X’s AI training supercomputer currently under construction at Tesla’s Giga Texas plant.
More recently, Musk took to his social media platform to announce that Colossus, a new 100k H100 training cluster, is now up and running.
Musk claims that Colossus is « the most powerful AI training system in the world » and that it was built « from start to finish » in just 122 days. That’s quite an achievement. Servers for the xAI cluster were reportedly provided by Dell and Supermicro, with the cost of the project estimated to be between $3-4 billion. Where does Colossus get its name?
Tom’s Hardware notes, “Although all of these clusters are formally operational and even training AI models, it is entirely unclear how many are actually online today.
