Elon Musk has confirmed that Grok 2 will ‘in all probability’ be able to be launched subsequent month. That is the subsequent era of his synthetic intelligence instrument Grok.
The billionaire gave an replace in a reply to a information supply who shared headlines about xAI’s chatbot Grok on X (previously Twitter),
“Grok 2 goes by way of finetuning and bug fixes. Most likely able to launch subsequent month.”
xAI contracted for 24k H100s from Oracle and Grok 2 skilled on these. Grok 2 goes by way of finetuning and bug fixes. Most likely able to launch subsequent month.
xAI is constructing the 100k H100 system itself for quickest time to completion. Aiming to start coaching later this month.…
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 9, 2024
The instrument is offered to all X customers who subscribe to the Premium Plus service at $16 per thirty days (or $22 through the app). And in contrast to conventional chatbots, like main competitor ChatGPT, Grok has been programmed to exhibit a politically incorrect and witty persona.
The instrument has real-time data of present occasions, together with latest developments in AI expertise, and has been built-in fully into the X platform.
The corporate behind it, referred to as xAI, describes their work as “constructing on synthetic intelligence to speed up human scientific discovery.”
Oracle and xAI’s potential relationship involves an finish
The Tesla CEO expanded on different areas of the enterprise too and defined how the chatbot has been skilled on 24k H100s.
“xAI is constructing the 100k H100 system itself for the quickest time to completion. Aiming to start coaching later this month. It will likely be essentially the most highly effective coaching cluster on this planet by a big margin.”
As an alternative of going with one other firm, the 100k H100 has been completed internally because of the enterprise’s “basic competitiveness” as they goal to be quicker than every other AI firm.
Elon says “that is the one approach to catch up.” The American laptop expertise large Oracle and Musk’s xAI have been in talks on a server deal for a while.
“Oracle is a superb firm and there’s one other firm that exhibits promise additionally concerned in that OpenAI GB200 cluster, however, when our destiny depends upon being the quickest by far, we should have our personal arms on the steering wheel, moderately than be a backseat driver,” writes Elon.
A particular date for the arrival of Grok 2 isn’t but identified, however Musk will doubtless take to his personal social media platform to share the information.
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