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On June 5, the Greater Memphis Chamber announced Elon Musk's plans to bring his xAI "Gigafactory of Compute," the world's largest supercomputer, to Memphis. This technological development has ...
Elon Musk-founded xAI will build the "world's largest supercomputer" in Memphis, the Greater Memphis Chamber announced Wednesday. ... at 3231 Paul Lowry Road is the presumed location for the xAI ...
The Memphis utility provider was still working to meet initial power requests from Elon Musk's xAI when the company announced plans to rapidly expand its facility. (Dimitrios Kambouris—Getty Images)
xAI was founded by Musk [7] [8] [9] in Nevada [4] on March 9, 2023, and has since been headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area in California. [10] Igor Babuschkin, formerly associated with Google's DeepMind unit, was recruited by Musk to be Chief Engineer. [11] Musk officially announced the formation of xAI on July 12, 2023.
Due to xAI's projected power use, it requires approvals from Memphis Light, Gas and Water (MLGW) and Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).
Tesla operates several massively parallel computing clusters for developing its Autopilot advanced driver assistance system. Its primary unnamed cluster using 5,760 Nvidia A100 graphics processing units (GPUs) was touted by Andrej Karpathy in 2021 at the fourth International Joint Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CCVPR 2021) to be "roughly the number five supercomputer in ...
Elon Reeve Musk (/ ˈ iː l ɒ n m ʌ s k /; born June 28, 1971) is a businessman and political figure known for his key roles in the automotive company Tesla, Inc. and the space company SpaceX. Since January 2025, he is serving as Administrator of the Department of Government Efficiency, under the second Donald Trump presidential administration.
TVA is working with Elon Musk's AI company to figure out how much electricity its new supercomputer would need. Elon Musk's xAI supercomputer in Memphis seeks to beat ORNL's Frontier. What will it ...