Oracle and Elon Musk’s xAI have teamed up to develop a supercomputer to enhance xAI’s AI model, Grok.
Oracle and Elon Musk’s xAI have declared their intention to collaborate on the development of a supercomputer. This new business will enhance xAI’s artificial intelligence model, Grok. This collaboration reveals Elon Musk’s ambitious goals to enhance artificial intelligence skills, potentially signaling a shift in the technological landscape.
Elon Musk’s xAI Forges AI Supercomputer Alliance
The partnership between xAI and Oracle aims to assist in the construction of a “Gigafactory of Compute”. This endeavor will focus on the construction of a supercomputer that will serve as the foundation for Grok’s training and further development.
Musk had the goal of securing financing for xAI at a valuation of $15 billion over the course of April. As a result of the rise in investor interest, Musk decided to raise the funding target to $6 billion at a valuation of $18 billion. Additionally, we predict that the funds will significantly increase xAI’s GPU count. The objective is to increase the number of GPUs from about 10,000 to 100,000.
This growth is not merely a quantitative increase; rather, it is a strategic enhancement that aims to unite these graphics processing units (GPUs) into a powerful supercomputer architecture. This will enable Grok to achieve new levels of artificial intelligence efficiency and capability.
In Paris, at the VivaTech 2024 conference, Elon Musk presented his vision for the future of artificial intelligence (AI). He voiced his conviction that by the end of the year 2024, xAI would have caught up to the leaders of the artificial intelligence market, such as OpenAI and DeepMind.
Additionally, Musk hypothesized that by the end of the year 2025, artificial intelligence systems such as Grok could surpass humans in all tasks, which could potentially redefine the roles that human beings play in the economy. Elon Musk questioned the implications of such advanced artificial intelligence.
According to him, if machines were to surpass human capacities in every way, it would call into question the meaning of human life. On the other hand, he also said that in the future, humans might be the ones to give AI a sense of purpose and meaning, implying that there is a mutually beneficial relationship between humans and artificial intelligence.xAI recently launched Grok, an artificial intelligence chatbot, on the European market.
It is part of a larger goal to make advanced artificial intelligence tools available to people all across the world. Despite its widespread rollout, Grok remains inaccessible to all users in Europe. This is because Grok follows a staged implementation strategy. This expansion represents a significant development, according to Linda Yaccarino, Chief Executive Officer of X, which is the parent business of xAI.
As stated by Yaccarino, the deployment of Grok across Europe represents an important milestone in the strategy that xAI is implementing to grow its market presence beyond the United States. We anticipate this decision to foster a broader adoption and integration of artificial intelligence across various industries, potentially influencing AI plans and policies globally.