{"id":197785,"date":"2024-10-16T11:22:57","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T16:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/elon-musks-xai-built-a-100000-gpu-supercluster-in-just-19-days"},"modified":"2024-10-16T11:22:57","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T16:22:57","slug":"elon-musks-xai-built-a-100000-gpu-supercluster-in-just-19-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/elon-musks-xai-built-a-100000-gpu-supercluster-in-just-19-days","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s xAI built a 100,000-GPU supercluster in just 19 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musks-xai-built-a-100000-gpu-supercluster-in-just-19-days.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Crazy: Few would argue that Elon Musk is driven. Despite his various detractors, the entrepreneur has built Tesla and SpaceX into major competitors, if not leaders, in their respective industries. This success comes amid various side endeavors like Neuralink and Twitter\/X transition. Now, his xAI team has gotten an AI supercluster up and running in just a few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk and his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techspot.com\/news\/101101-elon-musk-aims-raise-1-billion-ai-startup.html\">xAI<\/a> team have seemingly done the impossible. The company built a supercluster of 100,000 Nvidia H200 Blackwell GPUs in only 19 days. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang called the feat \u201csuperhuman.\u201d Huang shared the incredible story in an interview with the Tesla Owners Silicon Valley <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/teslaownersSV\">group<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n<p>According to Huang, constructing a supercomputer of this size would take most crews around four years \u2013 three years in planning and one year on shipping, installation, and operational setup. However, in less than three weeks, Musk and his team managed the entire process \u2013 from concept to full functionality. The xAI supercluster even completed its first AI training run shortly after the cluster was powered up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crazy: Few would argue that Elon Musk is driven. Despite his various detractors, the entrepreneur has built Tesla and SpaceX into major competitors, if not leaders, in their respective industries. This success comes amid various side endeavors like Neuralink and Twitter\/X transition. Now, his xAI team has gotten an AI supercluster up and running in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,6,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-robotics-ai","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197785","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=197785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}