Elon Musk's xAI Plans Massive Expansion of AI Supercomputer in Memphis (usnews.com)
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/24/12/05/0246248/elon-musks-xai-plans-massive-expansion-of-ai-supercomputer-in-memphis
- Source link: https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2024-12-04/musks-xai-plans-massive-expansion-of-ai-supercomputer-in-memphis
> Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI plans to expand its Memphis, Tennessee, supercomputer to house at least one million graphics processing units (GPUs), the Greater Memphis Chamber said on Wednesday, as xAI races to compete against rivals like OpenAI.
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> The move represents a massive expansion for the supercomputer called Colossus, which currently has 100,000 GPUs to train xAI's chatbot called Grok. As part of the expansion, Nvidia, which supplies the GPUs, and Dell and Super Micro, which have assembled the server racks for the computer, will establish operations in Memphis, the chamber said in a statement.
The Greater Memphis chamber (an economic development organization) called it "the [2]largest capital investment in the region's history ," even saying that xAI "is setting the stage for Memphis to become the global epicenter of artificial intelligence." ("To facilitate this massive undertaking, the Greater Memphis Chamber established an xAI Special Operations Team... This team provides round-the-clock concierge service to the company.")
Reuters calls the supercomputer "a critical component of advancing Musk's AI efforts, as the billionaire has deepened his rivalry against OpenAI..." And the Greater Memphis chamber describes the expansion by Nvidia/Dell/Super Micro as "further solidifying the city's position as the 'Digital Delta'... Memphis has provided the power and velocity necessary for not just xAI to grow and thrive, but making way for other companies as well."
[1] https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2024-12-04/musks-xai-plans-massive-expansion-of-ai-supercomputer-in-memphis
[2] https://memphischamber.com/blog/general/xai-memphis-announces-expansion-of-supercomputer-with-addition-of-tech-companies-in-digital-delta/
Simpsons (Score:2)
Its reminiscent of that S7E2 episode of the Simpsons when they filmed Radioactive Man in Springfield.
> (in Mayor Quimby's office)
> Director: We have $30 million to spend.
> Quimby: We'll blow up our dams, destroy forests- anything! If there's a species of animal that's causing you problems nosing around your camera, we'll have it wiped out!
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> Its reminiscent of that S7E2 episode of the Simpsons when they filmed Radioactive Man in Springfield.
One word: [1]monorail [youtube.com].
[1] https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=simpsons+monorail
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>> Its reminiscent of that S7E2 episode of the Simpsons when they filmed Radioactive Man in Springfield.
> One word: [1]monorail [youtube.com].
What I wouldn't have given up for the opportunity to have been onset the day they filmed that Simpsons episode.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=simpsons+monorail
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"My eyes! The goggles do nothing!"
Antiquated Infrastructure (Score:2)
I'm sure the TVA is going to be able to supply all the power needs for this with their up to date, top of the line power infra. /s
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What does the Time Variance Authority have to do with all this?
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Tennessee Valley Authority
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They have quite a bit of supply, so maybe the sales will encourage them to fix this one supply corridor?
Also Tennessee is fighting child sterilization at SCOTUS so this probably piques his interests.
This is OK - we need less fighting and more cultural migration.
I would not invest anything on the New Madrid fault, personally.
Perhaps the low power costs over the next three years allow for a redundant center to be built, though?
I don't like the guy but he is quite a risk taker, which usually pays off.
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> Also Tennessee is fighting child sterilization at SCOTUS so this probably piques his interests.
What are you even babbling about?
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There were definitely some Musk haters beforehand, but most of the EDS sufferers hate him because he bought Twitter and restored it to the way it was ten years prior. And then, what REALLY pissed them off is the release of the Twitter files, which exposed the government-sponsored censorship that was happening, causing the likes of even Zuckerberg and others to take a step back and check their own censorship. Now that actual truth could no longer be labeled misinformation and squelched, their ilk were sudd
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> most of the EDS sufferers hate him because he bought Twitter and restored it to the way it was ten years prior. And then, what REALLY pissed them off is the release of the Twitter files, which exposed the government-sponsored censorship that was happening, causing the likes of even Zuckerberg and others to take a step back and check their own censorship.
While this didn't help Musk's popularity on the left, I think the main cause is his support of Trump. Essentially, it is a variation of the following thinking: "We run on our ideas and resoundingly lost. We couldn't be wrong, therefore it is people that lied about us that caused this". The same way Russian election interference was blamed on 2016 loss, only now Musk and Rogan are getting blamed for 2024. Never mind that it is actually "It's the economy, stupid" with some side-shows.
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"I think the main cause is his support of Trump."
Now, we all know you don't think. You're MAGA.
"The same way Russian election interference was blamed on 2016 loss, only now Musk and Rogan are getting blamed for 2024. Never mind that it is actually "It's the economy, stupid" with some side-shows."
The 2016 "loss" was not "blamed" on Russian interference. Russian interference was documented to have occurred, crimes were committed, and those crimes were documented in the Mueller report.
And Musk and Rogan are
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Ah yes, Musk is the victim. Twitter files and 2000 mules, the new history curriculum for public education.
The MAGA playbook is short.
Musk is an illegal immigrant who over stayed his (Score:2)
visa. So is Melania. Both are about to get deported right?
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Depends where they fall on the chart. [1]https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/... [kym-cdn.com]
[1] https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/044/241/skincover.jpg
Most massive BULLSHIT ever! (Score:2)
Something to be proud of, no question.
At the same time, there are still no real applications for LLMs besides "better crap" and somewhat better search. The problems and risks are raising though, with techniques for malware insertion, training-data poisoning, "jailbreaks", etc.
Memphis, Tennessee? (Score:1)
Memphis, Tennessee? Hurray for diversification of 'tech' localities across the country! Except wait, did I just post [1]about diversification [rollingstone.com]?
[1] https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-musk-targets-federal-employees-harassment-doge-1235183987/
Since Musk & Trump oppose the deep state (Score:2)
When are they going to make smartphone makers and computer manufacturers and other various networking devices and gadgets without any backdoors in them,
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Never. The whole thing is a Big Lie: [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie
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Conservatives have been crying about George Soros for so long they failed to realize that Elon is literally George Soros. A wealthy figure who can't be elected and bought his way into the government and now has an ear to the president. But that's ok since their political beliefs align.
You can't get any more deep state than this.
Worldclas Hype (Score:2)
For a second rate chat bot.
Big investment. Yeah. (Score:2)
> The Greater Memphis chamber (an economic development organization) called it "the largest capital investment in the region's history," even saying that xAI "is setting the stage for Memphis to become the global epicenter of artificial intelligence." ("To facilitate this massive undertaking, the Greater Memphis Chamber established an xAI Special Operations Team... This team provides round-the-clock concierge service to the company.")
I read this and I have to wonder if anyone really thought though the true benefits to the local community of this "investment."
There will be some construction contracts, mostly short term. Long term employees? Maybe a few hundred. I can't imagine more than that needed to run a data center even that large. All those billions ain't just sticking around -- they are going to nVidia and other vendors elsewhere.
Maybe they think they will get tax revenue out of it but this has "tax break incentive to
Musk - "We should fear AI, unless I own it." (Score:2)
There are a couple documentaries out there that have interviews with folks that know Musk and interact with him on a regular basis. The consensus seems to be that while he does, truly, want humanity to be "saved" in many ways, whether it be through space exploration and giving us an out to the "all our eggs in one basket" thing, or trying to create computer god to solve our current biosphere's self-induced crisis, but that he's utterly convinced only he, himself should be the one to save us. He wants his le
Also by Elon Musk (Score:2, Insightful)
"Musk has been outspoken about his concerns around AI. During the keynote on Thursday, he called the technology his biggest fear."
Anyone still worshipping this cock bagel needs his head examined.
Re:Also by Elon Musk (Score:5, Informative)
Hang on. This guy named his new bandwagony platform "X," the same [1]as he keeps trying to name [independent.co.uk] all of his various takeovers and scams?
He already committed [2]open land theft [thedailybeast.com] recently, I wonder how much intellectual property he's going to steal to "train" this new grift? The August launch was [3]about what we'd expect [axios.com] from him...
What they're saying: Harvard Law Cyberlaw Clinic instructor Alejandra Caraballo, in a post on X, called the Grok beta "one of the most reckless and irresponsible AI implementations I've ever seen." - and shortly after it appears that Narcissistic Neonazi Musk banned this Harvard cyberlaw specialist from the platform, which is unsurprising from the little despot.
[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/elon-musk-x-obsession-twitter-b2406540.html
[2] https://www.thedailybeast.com/cards-against-humanity-sues-elon-musk-for-dollar15m-in-spacex-land-dispute/
[3] https://www.axios.com/2024/08/15/elon-musk-xai-grok-bot-ai-images
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Also, I can't believe they're going to call the supercomputer "Colossus"! Holy fuck, did anyone of them even watch that movie?
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Musk thinks he is the Henry Ford (brilliant carmaker, admired salesman) of our generation.
Musk instead is the Henry Ford and Howard Hughes of our generation rolled into one: an antisemitic conspiracy theorist and egotistical Nazi-affiliated narcissistic monster, [1]probably peeing in jars in his office. [the-fence.com]
[1] https://www.the-fence.com/something-in-the-water/
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Hahahahaha, Henry Ford? No. He got lucky. But he is not even remotely as smart or capable as he thinks he is. And his morals are simply crap.
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> Anyone still worshipping this cock bagel needs his head examined.
Fans of the Musk will just move the goalposts. "Only Elon can save us from the AI, he has to have his own good AI to fight the bad AI" or whatever.
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> If you actually listen to what Musk said, and I know you don't and wouldn't
Elon taught me not to listen to Elon, by lying repeatedly.
> producing benevolent AI could only be achieved by commitment to factual and non-slanted training/approach
So far so good, in that Grok says he's a shitheel.
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> Elon taught me not to listen to Elon
In that case, what makes you think you are competent to comment on what Elon said?
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A concept you probably are not smart enough to understand. It goes like this: "Fool me once ...".
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He's at least as competent as AI is. There is one thing we know, if :Leon says something that turns out to be true, it's an accident or coincidence. We know this because humans have evolved to have reasoning abilities. We learn so we can predict. Even you likely have it, too bad you use it in bad faith.
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ideologically captured entities like Google and OpenAI actively teaching AI to lie to have it produce desired outputs is dangerous
You mean like he's [1]trying to do with Grok [yahoo.com]? The one which recently said he, Leon, was one of the greatest purveyors [2]of misinformation on Twitter [fortune.com]?
You don't have to agree with Musk views on this, but his view is consistent and coherent.
Bullshit. He is repeatedly inconsistent in his views whether his claim of "free speech" (which he routinely violtates by banning peopl
[1] https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-unveils-grok-ai-185002355.html
[2] https://fortune.com/2024/11/14/grok-musk-misinformation-spreader/
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Apply a modicum of critical thinking. If Musk was in US illegally, there would be a huge political win for Democrats to deport him and they would have done that a long time ago. More so, if Musk was in US illegally, how do you think he passed vetting that he had to go through for SpaceX get military contracts?
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"If Musk was in US illegally,..."
OP didn't ask that question, he commented on Musk's refusal to address it. You should "apply a modicum of critical thinking."
"...there would be a huge political win for Democrats to deport him..."
False. That's your tribalism speaking. It's Republicans that think that harming the enemy is a "huge political win".
"...and they would have done that a long time ago."
Apply a modicum of critical thinking! INS is NOT a wing of the Democratic Party. You could say more clearly that
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> Apply a modicum of critical thinking. If Musk was in US illegally, there would be a huge political win for Democrats to deport him and they would have done that a long time ago. More so, if Musk was in US illegally, how do you think he passed vetting that he had to go through for SpaceX get military contracts?
He was in the US illegally for a period of time. [1]https://www.theguardian.com/te... [theguardian.com]
Having endless wealth and lawyers will smooth anything over.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/26/elon-musk-illegal-immigration
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> Having endless wealth and lawyers will smooth anything over.
Not in a political situation. If some DA could make a career by prosecuting Musk, they absolutely would. Musk might still win, but the case would have played out in media, causing him reputational damage, as intended.
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He's a billionaire, normal immigration laws don't apply to him.
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Don't forget 1) Musk has removed several factual community notes about himself, and 2) he has multiple sockpuppet accounts. What a choad.
Do you even read what you type? (Score:1)
Yes, Grok severely criticizing Musk is clearly evidence that Musk has manipulated Grok as to what it can say.
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Musk and Trump are the same person, and a core characteristic of them is that everything is projection. When Musk says that his enemies are teaching AI to lie, what he means is that he teaches AI to lie. When he says that his enemies are trampling free speech, he means he's trampling it. Musk, like Trump, constructs his lies out of his own experiences, he is not a creative man.
So is his view on AI "consistent and coherent"? Who knows? Who cares? Musk is a pathological liar, you don't know what his vie
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> Anyone still worshipping this cock bagel needs his head examined.
Indeed. To be fair, a _lot_ of people need to have their heads examined.
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> still
Why did you worship him in the first place? This is how you got to this problem. While we were making fun of you for worshiping him all those other years, you rabidly stood behind him and defended him.
You get what you pay for. Sorry, but not sorry.
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He's just trying to scare competitors away. Musk is relying on AI to solve several of his problems. Full Self Driver (now the subject of a lawsuit because it didn't deliver for over 8 years), bots on Twitter, computer-brain interfaces, having to employ humans to assemble his cars, and more.
Elon has always been blinded by AI, seeming to think that a breakthrough is just around the corner for the last decade, and that if he just throws enough money at it somehow it will magically work. Remember when Tesla's "
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The thing is, Musk is not nearly as smart as he thinks his is. He has some talent to make money and got very lucky. Also, apparently some people are impressed by how much of an asshole he is. But that is it. His education is admittedly better than Trump's, but questionable bachelor's degrees in finance and physics do not amount to much.
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> "Musk has been outspoken about his concerns around AI. During the keynote on Thursday, he called the technology his biggest fear." Anyone still worshipping this cock bagel needs his head examined.
Perhaps anyone demanding that the AI overlords of Planet Earth come with ZERO morals or ethics, will be the ones history remembers most in need of a head examination.
Given his stance, he might actually find reasonable reserve with AI development. While you appear to prefer the more Greed-driven philosophy in control of AI. Not that the Disease of Greed that will become our species epitaph is anything to worry about on a planet fully capable of decimating itself down to the nuclear-resistant cockroaches, m
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> Anyone still worshipping this cock bagel needs his head examined.
Whoever moderated this drivel as insightful should get their heads checked. +1 Insightful is not intended to be used for "post aligned with my politics", but to highlight posts that contributed analysis or reason to the discussion. While there is nothing wrong with criticizing Musk, the quoted post isn't insightful criticism, it is ad hominem filled temper-tantrum.
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That does apply to you. It does not apply to the posting you answered to.
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I would enjoying my rent-free stay in your head, but the view of the dump that is your life spoils the stay.
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You seem to misunderstand.
Some people view reality through a true/false filter.
Other people view reality through a my-team/not-my-team filter.
One framing is that this reflects post-Enlightenment/pre-Enlightenment thought.
The dominant news media has moved from A to B and that is what most people use as their sensemaking apparatus.
Both types of people get mod points.
Metamodding doesn't help much because of the same dichotomy.
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Regardless of the approach, the objective reality is still there. So even tribal views have to be adjusted when checked against the reality.