Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI is about to launch its new large language model Grok-2, and has begun to warm up the follow-up model Grok-3. The training of Grok-3 uses an astonishing 100,000 NVIDIA H100 chips, indicating that its performance will reach unprecedented heights. This not only demonstrates xAI’s strong research and development capabilities, but also triggers people’s endless imagination about the future development of AI technology. The article explains in detail the training scale, cost and potential technological breakthroughs of Grok-3, and discusses possible resource sharing between xAI and Tesla.
Musk emphasized the importance of high-quality data sets in AI research and development and pointed out the data processing challenges of existing models. The Grok-3 project is expensive. The 100,000 Nvidia H100 chips used in its training are worth up to US$3 to 4 billion. This is similar to Tesla's procurement budget for Nvidia chips this year, triggering speculation about the sharing of resources between the two companies. . The launch of Grok-2 and Grok-3 marks a bold step taken by xAI in the field of artificial intelligence, and also heralds the arrival of a new round of AI technology changes.
NVIDIA H100, this cutting-edge chip designed for processing large language model (LLMs) data, has a single chip price of up to 30,000 to 40,000 US dollars (approximately 219,000 to 292,000 yuan), and xAI’s investment this time is 100,000 yuan. The value of chips has soared to the sky, estimated to be between 3 billion and 4 billion US dollars (approximately 21.868 to 29.157 billion yuan at the current exchange rate).
It is worth noting that Musk has previously revealed that Tesla’s purchase budget for Nvidia chips this year is also within this range, which makes people speculate whether xAI has relied on Tesla’s resources.
With the upcoming release of Grok-2 and the intensive preparation of Grok-3, xAI under the leadership of Musk is leading a new round of changes in the field of artificial intelligence.
The huge investment in xAI and the emphasis on data quality indicate that there will be more breakthroughs in the field of artificial intelligence in the future. The launch of Grok-2 and Grok-3 is worth waiting to see if they can truly lead a new chapter in the field of artificial intelligence. This will have profound consequences for the entire technology industry.