Ilon Musk, which leads six innovative companies at once – Tesla, SpaceX, Starlink, X (previously known as Twitter), Neuralink and Xai, does not stop there. The other day, he announced that the XII company began training its models on the most powerful AI plaster in the world – Memphis SuperClUster located in Memphis, Tennessee.
According to the local edition Wreg , This supercomputer will be the largest investment in the new company in the market in the history of the city. However, despite the ambitious plans, the XII does not have a contract with the local energy company Tennessee Valley Authority, which is necessary to provide an electricity project with a capacity of more than 100 megawatts.
According to the mask, the cluster is equipped with 100,000 NVIDIA H100 graphic processors with liquid cooling. He noted that the system operates on the unified structure of the RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access), which allows you to effectively and with a low delay transfer data between computing nodes without loading on the central processor. The businessman said that XII plans to create the “most powerful AI in all respects” by December 2024.
Musk added that Memphis Supercluster will give a significant advantage to achieve this goal. However, his reputation regarding deadlines forces many makes many skeptical of the declared December deadline. Earlier, he has repeatedly postponed the timing of the launch of such projects as completely autonomous cars, robotaxi and mission to Mars. Nevertheless, if the XII manages to present its new model in the specified time, this will be a huge step forward for the company.
taking into account the fact that giants such as Openai, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and Meta are also working on creating more powerful and affordable models, XII needs to offer something really new and useful to remain competitive in this race for this race customers, users and attention.
It is interesting that Microsoft, which supports Openai, is rumored to work on a supercomputer to teach AI worth $ 100 billion under the code name Stargate. Depending on how these projects will develop, the status of Memphis Supercluster as the most powerful in the world can be short -lived.