Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI plans to develop a super computer with the parnership of Dell to enhance its AI chatbot Grok .
Elon Musk announced on social media platform X that Dell Technologies is manufacturing half of the racks for the supercomputer being constructed by xAI.
According to a report from The Information in May, Musk’s AI startup xAI plans to develop a supercomputer to enhance its AI chatbot Grok.
Dell CEO Michael Dell also confirmed on platform X that Dell is collaborating with Nvidia to establish an “AI factory” aimed at powering the next generation of xAI’s Grok chatbot.
Training AI models like xAI’s Grok necessitates tens of thousands of high-performance chips, which are currently in short supply. Earlier this year, Musk revealed that training the Grok 2 model required approximately 20,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs, and future iterations such as Grok 3 will demand even more, reaching up to 100,000 Nvidia H100 chips.
Musk aims to have the proposed supercomputer operational by fall 2025. He founded xAI last year to compete with Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Alphabet’s Google, having also co-founded OpenAI previously.