Elon Musk's AI company 'xAI' has started operating the AI learning cluster 'Colossus' equipped with 100,000 NVIDIA H100s, and is scheduled to complete an 'AI learning cluster equipped with 200,000 H100s' within a few months

It has been revealed that xAI, an AI company founded by Elon Musk, has begun operation of the AI learning cluster Colossus . Colossus is equipped with 100,000 NVIDIA H100 high-performance AI processing chips.

This weekend, the @xAI team brought our Colossus 100k H100 training cluster online. From start to finish, it was done in 122 days.

Colossus is the most powerful AI training system in the world. Moreover, it will double in size to 200k (50k H200s) in a few months.

Excellent…

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 2, 2024

On September 2, 2024, Musk posted, 'This weekend, the xAI team brought online the AI learning cluster 'Colossus' with 100,000 H100s. It took 122 days to build Colossus. Colossus is the most powerful AI learning system in the world,' announcing the start of Colossus operation. At the same time, Musk also said, 'Colossus will double in size to 200,000 H100s (50,000 H200s) within a few months.'

NVIDIA's official X account also responded to Musk, saying, 'We're excited to bring Colossus, the world's largest GPU supercomputer, online in record time. Colossus leverages NVIDIA's accelerated computing platform, which will deliver extraordinary improvements in energy efficiency and groundbreaking processing power.'

Exciting to see Colossus, the world's largest GPU #supercomputer , come online in record time. Colossus is powered by @nvidia 's #acceleratedcomputing platform, delivering breakthrough performance with exceptional gains in #energyefficiency .

Congratulations to the entire team! https://t.co/UXHtPCELly

— NVIDIA Data Center (@NVIDIADC) September 2, 2024

In May 2024, Musk told investors that he plans to deploy 100,000 H100s, and this announcement marks the realization of his plan. xAI has publicly stated that it aims to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI) and is recruiting people to work on AGI research.

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