Elon Musk is interviewed on CNBC from the Tesla headquarters in Texas.
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Elon Musk mentioned Tuesday that he expects Tesla and xAI will proceed shopping for chips from semiconductor giants Nvidia and AMD, and presumably others.
Musk’s synthetic intelligence firm, xAI, which now owns social media platform X, has already put in 200,000 GPUs at its Colossus facility in Memphis, Tennessee, the Tesla CEO advised CNBC’s David Faber on Tuesday. XAI can also be planning a 1 million GPU facility outdoors Memphis, Musk mentioned.
He didn’t specify what number of chips the corporate had already ordered and by which date they could be put in.
“Just a few years in the past, I made a really apparent prediction, which is that the limitation on AI shall be chips,” he mentioned.
Final yr, Musk directed Nvidia to ship a big order of GPUs to xAI first, leaping the road forward of Tesla.
At his autos enterprise, Musk mentioned Tesla’s Dojo supercomputer in Buffalo, New York, is already used for coaching its Autopilot and Optimus robotics programs.
Musk boasted on Tuesday that xAI’s Colossus is the “strongest coaching cluster on this planet proper now” with “over 200,000 GPUs coaching coherently.”
Musk’s option to construct in Memphis was hailed by metropolis officers as remodeling the area right into a “high-tech manufacturing hub.”
However native communities there have protested the power- and water-hungry operation, particularly the best way xAI has relied on pure gas-burning generators to assist energy the supercomputer.
The generators emit smog-forming nitrogen oxides, precursors to ozone formation, which have been related to larger threat of loss of life from respiratory illness.
As CNBC beforehand reported, environmental advocates say xAI has seemingly “violated the Clear Air Act” and native allowing necessities for “main sources of air air pollution” with its use of the generators.
