{"id":179119,"date":"2023-12-25T14:25:33","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T20:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/elon-musk-wanted-way-more-nvidia-chips-for-his-grok-chatbot-than-oracle-could-provide-larry-ellison-says"},"modified":"2023-12-25T14:25:33","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T20:25:33","slug":"elon-musk-wanted-way-more-nvidia-chips-for-his-grok-chatbot-than-oracle-could-provide-larry-ellison-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/elon-musk-wanted-way-more-nvidia-chips-for-his-grok-chatbot-than-oracle-could-provide-larry-ellison-says","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk wanted way more Nvidia chips for his Grok chatbot than Oracle could provide, Larry Ellison says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-wanted-way-more-nvidia-chips-for-his-grok-chatbot-than-oracle-could-provide-larry-ellison-says.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/markets.businessinsider.com\/stocks\/nvda-stock?utm_medium=ingest&utm_source=markets\" rel=\"\">Nvidia<\/a> stock has more than tripled this year as investors bet the graphics-chip specialist will power the artificial-intelligence revolution. Elon Musk is among those who can\u2019t get enough of its semiconductors, Oracle\u2019s Larry Ellison said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Musk has opted to use Oracle\u2019s servers to run his xAI company\u2019s recently launched chatbot, Grok. The cloud-infrastructure giant managed to provide enough Nvidia chips to power the first version of Grok, but fell short of Musk\u2019s demands, Ellison said during Oracle\u2019s latest earnings call, according to a transcript provided by AlphaSense\/Sentieo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoy, did they want a lot more GPUs than we gave them,\u201d Oracle\u2019s billionaire cofounder and tech chief said. \u201cWe gave them quite a few but they wanted more, and we are in the process of getting them more.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nvidia stock has more than tripled this year as investors bet the graphics-chip specialist will power the artificial-intelligence revolution. Elon Musk is among those who can\u2019t get enough of its semiconductors, Oracle\u2019s Larry Ellison said on Monday. Musk has opted to use Oracle\u2019s servers to run his xAI company\u2019s recently launched chatbot, Grok. The cloud-infrastructure [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179119","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=179119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}