PANews reported on July 11 that according to IT Home, Musk confirmed that his artificial intelligence startup xAI has ended negotiations with Oracle to expand its existing agreement and lease Nvidia chips. He said that xAI is building a supercomputer with 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs, which is expected to be delivered and start training later this month. He pointed out that "this will become the most powerful training cluster in the world, and the leading advantage is huge", "Our core competitiveness is faster than any other artificial intelligence company, which is the only way to narrow the gap."
Prior to this, xAI had rented 24,000 H100 chips (computing power) from Oracle and used them to train Grok 2. He said that Grok 2 is currently in the final polishing stage and only needs some fine-tuning and bug fixes before it can be released, and it is expected to be released as early as next month. In May this year, it was reported that the two companies were close to reaching an agreement to expand their partnership, and xAI would spend about $10 billion to rent cloud servers from Oracle for several years.
