Elon Musk buys 100 thousand chips for 40 thousand dollars! Here's why
Elon Musk can't stop. This time, Musk is purchasing 100 thousand chips for his new artificial intelligence initiative xAI. Musk announced that he raised $6 billion in funding for xAI, which he founded last summer. So, what will this huge budget be used for? Let's examine this exciting news in detail.
Elon Musk is buying 100 thousand Nvidia-branded chips for his artificial intelligence company xAI
This $6 billion raised will be used to bring xAI company's first products to market, create advanced infrastructure, and accelerate research and development of future technologies. So far, xAI has introduced a chatbot called Grok, which it developed as a rival to OpenAI's #ChatGPT . Grok is currently only available to X Premium subscribers.
This funding round included giant investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and Saudi Arabian Prince Al Waleed bin Talal. Last year, xAI announced it was seeking equity investment of up to $1 billion. However, a few months ago, The Financial Times reported that xAI was seeking $6 billion, and Musk denied the report at the time. Now we see that $6 billion has actually been collected.
Developing artificial intelligence is not cheap. Nvidia's upcoming Blackwell B200 AI graphics cards range from $30,000 to $40,000 each. According to a report last week, xAI will require 100,000 of #Nvidia's existing H100 chips to power the upgraded version of its #Grok AI chatbot. #Musk told investors they plan to launch the new data center in the fall of 2025.
The race for #AI chips, talent and technology has never been this competitive. Major technology giants such as Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta spend billions of dollars on artificial intelligence projects. Microsoft has formed a multibillion-dollar partnership with OpenAI. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is seeking trillions of dollars to revamp the global chip industry. Musk, on the other hand, is suing OpenAI, claiming that it has deviated from its mission to benefit humanity.
