Elon Musk: He just made a huge investment for his AI company!
It continues unabated
As we informed you recently, Elon Musk continues his relentless pursuit of innovative technology, preparing his own AI company that aspires to compete with OpenAI, which he co-founded and funded in 2015.
Now, it has just become known that the tycoon continues his investments behind the scenes, securing a very large part of the total available server capacity of the Oracle company . The head of Tesla and SpaceX recently founded a company called X.AI Corp in Nevada with the aim of training his own ‘ ultimate truth’ AI , called ‘TruthGPT’. This will be specially designed to understand the nature of the universe, without posing a threat to humanity.
To implement this venture, Musk not only hired talent from Alphabet/Google subsidiary DeepMind, but also bought around 10,000 GPUs from NVIDIA . All this processing power is needed to train this new Large Language Model (LLM) which will be similar to OpenAI’s GPT. However, realizing Musk’s full vision would likely require three to five times as many chips, according to a UBS analysis.
As the Wall Street Journal article points out, X.AI Corp. Musk’s was the mystery buyer who recently secured nearly all of Oracle’s available server capacity, sending startups into a frenzy that were also looking for alternatives. Given the demand for servers and GPU stacks at a time when everyone is investing in the industry, this move by Musk further underscores the scale of his ambitions.
Of course, X.AI could tap into the massive amount of internal data generated daily by Twitter, which recently joined the X Corp family. This data could speed up the AI training process, although it would require significant resources for cleaning and pre-processing.
