FX168 Financial News Agency (Asia Pacific) Billionaire Elon Musk announced a shocking news on Tuesday, September 3, stating that his xAI company has officially launched the super artificial intelligence (AI) cluster Colossus, emphasizing that it is currently the most powerful AI training system in the world, consisting of 0.1 million NVIDIA's H100 chips.
Musk wrote: "Over the weekend, the xAI team officially launched our Colossus training cluster, from start to product launch, we only took 122 days. Colossus is the most powerful AI training system in the world, and its scale will double to 200k in the coming months. Our team, supplier NVIDIA, and many partners have made significant contributions." #AI trend#
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It is reported that Colossus dares to call itself the "landmark most powerful AI training system" because it consists of 0.1 million NVIDIA H100 GPUs, and it is expected that this scale will double to 0.2 million in the next few months.
Renowned opinion leader AnthonyEveryWhr posted the GPU scales of other AI giants to help netizens understand how vast the scale of Colossus is. He pointed out that Google AI has 90,000 GPUs; OpenAI has 80,000 GPUs; Meta AI has 70,000 GPUs; Microsoft AI has 60,000 GPUs; NVIDIA AI has 50,000 GPUs.
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NVIDIA Data Center official Twitter account reposted Musk's content and wrote: "It is great to see the world's largest GPU cluster online in record time, Colossus is supported by NVIDIA and has achieved breakthroughs in energy efficiency."
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Cathie Wood, the founder of Ark Investment Management and hailed as the "Queen of Stocks," also congratulated Musk in a post and hinted that the xAI team might continue to make many significant announcements.
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Currently, xAI's Grok-2 early test version was just launched to users in August, and it has only undergone training with around 15,000 Nvidia H100s. But by some standards, it is already one of the most powerful AI large-scale language models.
Looking ahead, the market generally predicts that Grok-3 or a more advanced version will be trained through Colossus, and when combined, they will be able to continuously advance the rapid development of AI models.
The demand for Nvidia's H100 chips is far exceeding the supply in the market. According to **** media, the market for HGX, which consists of 8 H100 chips, is about 10 million New Taiwan Dollars.
According to calculations, the total price of the 100,000 H100 chips owned by Musk's Colossus is as high as 125 billion New Taiwan Dollars, or nearly 4 billion US dollars.
Furthermore, Musk mentioned that this scale will double in the future, meaning that the team will invest billions of dollars to purchase more equipment.
Musk officially announced the establishment of xAI in July 2023 and developed the AI chatbot Grok. Although it is a startup company, it was reported as early as May of this year by The Wall Street Journal that xAI has raised 6 billion US dollars in funding at a B-round valuation of 18 billion US dollars, and the overall market cap of xAI is estimated to be 24 billion US dollars.
