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♄Elon Musk is on the move again, this time purchasing 100,000 Nvidia chips for his new artificial intelligence venture, xAI. Musk has secured $6 billion in funding for xAI, which he founded last summer. This significant budget will be used to launch xAI's initial products, build advanced infrastructure, and accelerate R&D for future technologies.đŸ‘©â€đŸ’»

♄xAI's first known product is a chatbot called Grok, developed to compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT. Currently, Grok is available exclusively to X Premium subscribers. 🚇The funding round attracted major investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and Saudi Arabian Prince Al Waleed bin Talal. Initially, #xAI sought up to $1 billion in equity investment, but recent reports indicated a $6 billion target, which Musk had initially denied but has now been achieved.👌

♄Developing AI is costly, with Nvidia's upcoming Blackwell B200 AI graphics cards priced between $30,000 and $40,000 each. xAI reportedly needs 100,000 of #Nvidia's existing H100 chips to power an upgraded version of #Grok . Musk informed investors that a new data center is planned for launch in fall 2025.đŸ§šâ€â™‚ïž

♄The competition for #AI chips, talent, and technology is fierce, with tech giants like Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta investing billions in AI projects. Microsoft has partnered with OpenAI in a multibillion-dollar deal, while OpenAI CEO Sam Altman aims to revolutionize the global chip industry with a trillion-dollar vision. Meanwhile, Musk is suing OpenAI, accusing it of straying from its mission to benefit humanity.đŸ«$XAI