Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia has praised Elon Musk and his AI company, xAI’s ability to build a supercluster of up to 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs in Memphis, Tennessee, in just 19 days. For those unaware, the Memphis Supercluster, announced by Musk on July 22, 2024, marks a significant milestone for xAI. It is aimed to advance AI capabilities, and is noted as the largest multi-billion dollar investment in Memphis’s history, despite initial power constraints of 8MW, with potential expansion to 50MW. Speaking in an interview, Jensen Huang said “Elon Musk is singular in his understanding of engineering. Never been done before, xAI did in 19 days what everyone else needs one year to accomplish.” “That is superhuman,” he added. During the interview, Huang also praised xAI teams saying the “engineering team is extraordinary…the software team’s great… the networking team’s great”. Reiterating on how the xAI’s team build a supercluster in Memphis in just 19 days, Huang said “There’s only one person in the world who could do that, Elon Musk”.

Nvidia to invest $100 billion in OpenAI

In another news, Nvidia and OpenAI have announced a massive partnership, with the US-based chipmaker committing to invest $100 billion in the ChatGPT-maker and supply it with advanced data centre chips. According to a Reuters report, the collaboration involves two separate but intertwined transactions. Nvidia will make an initial $10 billion investment in OpenAI for non-voting shares once a definitive agreement is reached.OpenAI, in turn, will use the capital to purchase Nvidia’s high-performance chips, an essential component for its AI development. The companies have signed a letter of intent to deploy at least 10 gigawatts of Nvidia systems for OpenAI, with plans to finalise the partnership in the coming weeks.“Everything starts with compute. Compute infrastructure will be the basis for the economy of the future, and we will utilize what we’re building with Nvidia to both create new AI breakthroughs and empower people and businesses with them at scale,” said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.