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Chip giant Nvidia is in talks with Elon Musk about a potential investment in xAI, people familiar with the matter say, according to the New York Post. xAI is an AI company founded by Musk that has developed Grok, a large language model currently deployed on social media platform X. The company has also developed a large language model called Grok. Although Grok launched later than competitors such as OpenAI's ChatGPT, it has grown and evolved very quickly. While NVIDIA has yet to comment on a potential investment in xAI, its CEO Jen-Hsun Huang has been very supportive...

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI has officially released its application programming interface (API), which allows developers to integrate Grok into other applications. Musk made the announcement on Monday, posting a link to the interface on the xAI website. Previously, Musk had confirmed plans to provide an API for Grok in August and open-sourced the software's weights in March. To view and use the API, users must log into their xAI account and select "Request Ac...

We recently got a glimpse of the $1 billion AI GPU when Elon Musk shared a short video presentation of Cortex, X's AI training supercomputer currently being built at Tesla's Giga factory in Texas. Musk announced on his social media platforms that Colossus, the new 100k H100 training cluster, is now up and running. Musk claims Colossus is "the world's most powerful AI training...

Musk's xAI company discussed a deal to share future Tesla revenue, according to the Wall Street Journal. Under the proposed agreement, Tesla would receive a license to xAI models. Under a proposed arrangement described to investors, Tesla would license xAI models to help develop a "fully self-driving" (FSD) system and share a portion of revenues with the startup, according to people familiar with the matter. xAI would help develop other features for Tesla, including a Siri-like voice assistant for its electric cars and an Optimus for its humanoid robot. Siri-like voice assistants in Tesla's electric cars, as well as a humanoid robot, Optimus...

Musk's AI startup xAI is facing criticism from environmental and health advocates for using gas turbines in its data center without obtaining the necessary permits, contributing to air pollution in Memphis, Tennessee. The Southern Environmental Law Center sent a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and health department in Shelby County, where the data center is located, saying: "Despite installing nearly 20 gas turbines with a total capacity of approximately 100 megawatts, enough to power approximately 50,000 homes, xAI does not appear to have applied for permits for these turbines...

Data shows that the xAI team's Grok-2 and Grok-Mini models have officially entered the LMSys chatbot Arena rankings, with Grok-2 standing out with a second-place finish, surpassing OpenAI's GPT-4o (in May) and tied with the latest Gemini model, supported by active votes from more than 6,000 community users. Grok-2 performed particularly well in math tasks, winning first place in that category, and also achieved second place in multiple other tasks,…

Musk's xAI company has released beta versions of Grok-2 and Grok-2mini, two new AI models with significant improvements in reasoning capabilities. The new version of Grok AI can not only generate images on the X social network, but also plans to bring a series of new features to the platform. xAI introduced in a blog that Grok-2 is a major upgrade to its predecessor Grok-1.5, with breakthroughs in chat, coding and reasoning. The Grok-2mini, which was launched at the same time, is described as a "small but powerful brother product"...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on the X platform on the evening of August 11 local time that the beta version of the artificial intelligence model Grok 2 will be released soon. Grok is the large language model Grok 2 launched by Musk's xAI company. Last month, Musk confirmed on the X platform that Grok 2 will be released in a few weeks. In response to users' questions about training data, he said that the model has "huge improvements." Musk and xAI have not yet released detailed information about the model. In March this year, Musk said that Grok 2 …

Technology media electrek reported on August 8 that Elon Musk has further tilted resources towards his xAI company and has hired more than a dozen Tesla employees for its language model Grok, which has led to Tesla shareholders filing a lawsuit. Musk has repeatedly emphasized in public that Tesla is an AI company in the past period of time, but this situation changed after Musk founded a new artificial intelligence startup xAI last year. IT Home reported in June this year that a group of Tesla investors…

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he would seek board approval to invest $5 billion in his artificial intelligence startup xAI, potentially further entangled his network of tech companies. If the investment is completed, it could rekindle questions about conflicts of interest among Musk's network of companies, which also includes spacecraft operator SpaceX and Neuralink, which develops computer-brain interfaces. Tesla is seeking to transform itself from an electric car maker to a robotics and artificial intelligence company. Musk has pledged to build a team driven by the technology...

Elon Musk recently announced in an interview with psychologist and author Jordan Peterson that xAI will release its latest AI model, Grok2, next month. Musk said that the performance of Grok2 is expected to be comparable to GPT-4, which has been trained on about 15,000 H100 GPUs. Meanwhile, the release of Grok3 is scheduled for December this year, and Musk said it will be the most powerful AI model. In the interview, Musk further revealed that Grok3 is…

Musk announced on July 9 that his artificial intelligence company xAI is building a supercomputer with 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs, which is expected to be delivered and start training at the end of this month. This move marks the end of xAI's negotiations with Oracle to expand its existing agreement and lease more Nvidia chips. Musk emphasized that this will become "the most powerful training cluster in the world, and the lead is huge." He said that xAI's core competitiveness lies in speed, "which is the only way to close the gap." Prior to this, xA…

Tesla's Texas Gigafactory is expanding to accommodate a supercomputer cluster for AI. Liang Jianhou, CEO of Supermicro, posted a message on X to congratulate Musk, saying that its large AI data center uses Supermicro's liquid cooling technology, which helps protect 20 billion trees for the earth. As we all know, AI data centers often mean huge energy consumption, and Supermicro hopes to reduce this pressure by promoting its liquid cooling technology. According to reports, compared with air cooling, this liquid cooling solution can reduce the electricity cost of the cooling infrastructure by 89%. Liang Jianhou...

Musk has announced that his artificial intelligence startup xAI's large language model Grok-2 will be launched in August, which will bring more advanced AI capabilities. Although Grok-2 has not yet been unveiled, Musk has already started to promote its Grok-3. Musk said that training AI chatbots requires data sets, and it is a lot of work to clean large language models (LMM) from existing data. He also talked about several problems with OpenAI model output training. He revealed that xAI's Grok-3 used 100,000...

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI has announced a partnership with Dell, Nvidia and Supermicro to build what it says will be the world’s largest supercomputer. The project will provide the startup with a large amount of computing resources to support its training work and reduce its reliance on cloud services from Oracle and X’s data centers. Source note: Image generated by AI, image license service provider Midjourney The plan was announced in early June, with Dell CEO Michael Dell posting a photo of the server rack on X (formerly Twitter)…

Several Tesla shareholders recently filed a lawsuit in Delaware, accusing the company's CEO Musk and the board of directors of intentionally diverting the company's talent and resources to Musk's competing artificial intelligence company xAI. The company, founded in 2023, aims to understand the "true nature of the universe." The shareholders claim that Musk and the board violated their fiduciary duties to Tesla by launching xAI. For years, Musk has tried to position Tesla as a robotics and artificial intelligence powerhouse, rather than just a car company. The claim has driven Tesla's stock price up, making the company's value...

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI is negotiating cooperation with the city of Memphis, Tennessee, to build the world's largest supercomputer "computing super factory" in the city. The investment scale of this project may be as high as billions of dollars. This supercomputer will use Nvidia's latest H100 series GPU chips to provide powerful computing power support for the conversational AI system Grok developed by xAI. If the project is finally approved, it will become the largest investment in the history of Memphis and create hundreds of jobs for the local area. Source Note: The picture is generated by AI, and the picture is authorized by the service...

Elon Musk has ordered thousands of Nvidia-made AI chips to be shipped to Tesla, which will be transferred to his social media company X, according to emails from the chipmaker obtained by CNBC. The move has the potential to delay Tesla's acquisition of $500 million worth of processors by months, the outlet reported. Source note: Image generated by AI, image licensing service provider Midjourney According to Musk, Tesla should stockpile Nvidia's H100 artificial intelligence chip to fuel its transformation into a "leader in artificial intelligence and robotics." In…

Musk plans to build an AI supercomputer for his AI company xAI, using Nvidia graphics cards, called a "computing megafactory," which is expected to be completed in the fall of 2025. The supercomputer is expected to be at least four times larger than the strongest clusters currently used by competitors such as Meta. Source: Image generated by AI, image licensed to Midjourney Musk personally guarantees that the supercomputer will be completed in time and will use Nvidia H100 GPUs. Reports say xAI may be...

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI announced in a blog post today that it has raised $6 billion (currently about 43.56 billion yuan) in Series B financing, with investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital. xAI said the funds will be used to bring xAI's first products to market, build advanced infrastructure and accelerate the development of future technologies. "More news will be announced in the coming weeks, and xAI's pre-investment valuation is $18 billion...

Musk's xAI is in talks with Oracle and plans to invest $10 billion to rent Oracle's AI servers. If the deal goes through, xAI will become one of Oracle's largest customers. The move will enable xAI to quickly catch up with competitors such as OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. At the same time, xAI is conducting a $6 billion equity financing round to help cover the cost of cloud computing services. Musk revealed that he plans to use the funds raised to lease AI chips to improve the performance of the Grok model...

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI is about to complete its latest round of financing. According to Bloomberg, the valuation of this round of financing has soared to about $18 billion, and heavyweight investors such as Sequoia Capital are becoming potential participants. This round of financing was originally planned to raise $3 billion, but due to the active participation of many investors, the final amount raised is expected to reach $6 billion. People familiar with the matter revealed that Musk's confidants in Sequoia Capital and Future Ventures, as well as other undisclosed investors, have joined the financing battle. Since xAI was founded in July 2023,…

According to techcrunch, a credible source with knowledge of the deal revealed that xAI, a competitor to Elon Musk's 10-month-old artificial intelligence giant OpenAI, is about to complete a $6 billion financing with a pre-money valuation of $18 billion. Unless the terms of the deal change, the deal will give investors a quarter of the company's shares and is expected to be completed in the coming weeks. The 10-month-old company is a competitor to OpenAI that aims to connect the digital and physical worlds. Investors include…

In the field of artificial intelligence, the development of multimodal models has always been the focus of industry attention. Recently, Musk XAI released its latest multimodal model, Grok-1.5Vision, which can not only process text information, but also understand and analyze various visual data, such as documents, charts, screenshots and photos, marking an important step for the company in artificial intelligence technology. The Grok-1.5Vision model has demonstrated its excellent performance in multiple benchmark tests. Compared with the industry-leading GPT4V model, it is not only comparable, but even achieves multiple indicators...