{"id":163776,"date":"2023-05-13T08:22:36","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T13:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/elon-musk-buys-ten-thousand-gpus-for-secretive-ai-project"},"modified":"2023-05-13T08:22:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T13:22:36","slug":"elon-musk-buys-ten-thousand-gpus-for-secretive-ai-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/elon-musk-buys-ten-thousand-gpus-for-secretive-ai-project","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Buys Ten Thousand GPUs for Secretive AI Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-buys-ten-thousand-gpus-for-secretive-ai-project2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Twitter CEO Elon Musk has bought around 10,000 graphics cards and is hiring AI experts to build a ChatGPT competitor within Twitter, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/elon-musk-twitter-investment-generative-ai-project-2023-4\" class=\"\"><em>Insider<\/em> reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s despite the billionaire CEO repeatedly <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/elon-musk-ai-regulation\" class=\"\">voicing concerns<\/a> over AI chatbots like ChatGPT, and even <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/group-temporary-pause-ai-more-advanced-than-gpt-4\" class=\"\">signing an open letter<\/a> calling for a six-month moratorium on developing AIs more advanced than OpenAI\u2019s GPT-4.<\/p>\n<p>Training a large language model like OpenAI\u2019s highly popular AI chatbot takes a lot of computational power, which means Musk had to dig deep in his sizeable pockets \u2014 tens of millions of dollars, according to <em>Insider<\/em> \u2014 to finance the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter CEO Elon Musk has bought around 10,000 graphics cards and is hiring AI experts to build a ChatGPT competitor within Twitter, Insider reports. That\u2019s despite the billionaire CEO repeatedly voicing concerns over AI chatbots like ChatGPT, and even signing an open letter calling for a six-month moratorium on developing AIs more advanced than OpenAI\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,45,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-finance","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}