According to the New York Post, people familiar with the matter said chip giantNvidiaIt's going on with Elon.Muskjust (emphasis) xA potentialinvestNegotiations.
xAI, the artificial intelligence company founded by Musk, has developed Grok, a large language model that is currently deployed on social media platform X. The company has also developed a large language model that can be used for social media. Although Grok was launched later than competitors like OpenAI's ChatGPT, it has grown and evolved very quickly.
While NVIDIA has yet to comment on a potential investment in xAI.But its CEO Jen-Hsun Huang has been very supportive of Musk's AI startupIn an October interview, Jen-Hsun Huang noted that the xAI team built a cluster of 100,000 H200 Blackwell GPUs in just 19 days. In an October interview, Jen-Hsun Huang noted that the xAI team built a supercomputer cluster with 100,000 H200 Blackwell GPUs in just 19 days.
Jen-Hsun Huang said projects like this usually take four years to go from the conceptual stage to final output. "As far as I know, there is only one person in the world who can do this; Elon's understanding of engineering, construction, large-scale systems, and resource deployment is second to none, and that's incredible." Jen-Hsun Huang noted.
There have been a number of reports related to investments in xAI, with an October report in The Wall Street Journal stating that Musk's AI company is in talks with a number of investors to raise billions of dollars at a valuation of about $40 billion. A report in The Information also noted that Musk's AI company has been in discussions with investors to raise $5 billion at a valuation of about $45 billion.