As the race for leadership in artificial intelligence continues apace, Elon Musk’s xAI company It is described as the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence education system. Colossus AI the education system online. The system, powered by 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs, is, according to Musk, the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence training system. Colossus, which went online this weekend, was completed in just 122 days and is expected to double in size to 200,000 GPUs in the coming months.

Elon Musk announced this in a tweet on September 2, 2024, saying: “This weekend, the @xAI team launched the Colossus 100k H100 training cluster. It was completed from start to finish in 122 days. Colossus is the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence education system. It will also double in size to 200,000 in the coming months. Perfect…”

A new era in artificial intelligence education with Colossus

This powerful structure of the Colossus, xAI’s large language model GrokIt will be used for training. Grok was launched in 2023 in response to competitors such as ChatGPT and Llama. Grok-2, updated in August, strengthened xAI’s position in the industry by delivering more advanced AI capabilities. xAI aims to be at the forefront of artificial intelligence with Grok-2 and accelerates its progress in this area with the contribution of Colossus.

However, allegations that Musk directed Nvidia GPUs dedicated to Tesla to xAI while he was setting up this system raised concerns that Tesla could delay the development of autonomous vehicle technology and the humanoid robot Optimus. However, Musk did both xAI He also claims that Tesla will be a leader in artificial intelligence and robotics.

Colossus comes onlineWhile it accelerated developments in artificial intelligence, its potential effects on Tesla’s autonomous driving technologies also sparked controversy. We’ll see how the developments impact the industry in the coming months.