Elon Musk's xAI plans to install 'giant supercomputer' at new Memphis factory

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI plans to build a new factory in Memphis, where a giant supercomputer will be installed, aiming to improve the company's ability to compete in the manufacture and provision of chatbots and other artificial intelligence tools. Since early March, Musk and his team at xAI have been working with Memphis officials to plan the new factory, which will be "the largest multi-billion dollar investment in the history of the city of Memphis." Townsend, chairman of the Greater Memphis Chamber of Commerce, said many details about the new factory have not yet been disclosed, including the total cost and the number of jobs that will be created. He added that the city has also discussed offering xAI tax breaks or other business incentives to attract the project to Memphis, but the specific details remain undetermined. (Jinshi) Earlier, Elon Musk said in an investor presentation in May that his AI company xAI will need up to 100,000 dedicated semiconductors to train and run the next version of the conversational artificial intelligence Grok. xAI plans to use these dedicated computing chips to form a huge supercomputer and call it a "gigafactory of compute." Elon Musk has said he wants to have the supercomputer up and running by the fall of 2025, and that he will personally be responsible for its delivery on time. Once completed, the computer will be connected to a chipset at least four times the size of the largest GPU cluster in existence.