They just started, the velocity of xAI is novel.
NVIDIA's CEO Jensen Huang: “Building a massive [supercomputer] factory in the short time that was done, that is superhuman. There's only one person in the world who could do that. What Elon and the xAI team did is singular. Never been done before.”
>only one person in the world who could do that. What Elon and the xAI team
That is literally more than one person.
Re:Grok3 Launch
by nozzlegear on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @01:05PM
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One billionaire glazing another because it might enrich himself further hardly seems noteworthy. That quote is superfluous at best.
Largest supercluster in the world created in a small time frame is pretty important. 4 years typically, cut down to 19 days. That's an incredible achievement and I, along with many others, think it's important.
https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/spectrum-x-ethernet-netwo...
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/elon-musk-to...
Okay but that's obviously a nonsense claim. Find me a computer on the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOP500 that was built 4 years after the chips it uses debuted.
H100s aren't even 3 years old.
How? After an enormous investment the latest version of some software is a bit better than the previous versions of some software from it's competitors and will likely be worse than the future versions from it's competitors. There's nothing novel about this.