News xAI Colossus supercomputer with 100K H100 GPUs comes online — Musk lays out plans to double GPU count to 200K with 50K H100 and 50K H200

[Admin]

Now that X's Colossus supercomputer with 100,000 H100 GPUs is online, Elon Musk hints at its further expansion with 50,000 more H200 GPUs.

xAI Colossus supercomputer with 100K H100 GPUs comes online — Musk lays out plans to double GPU count to 200K with 50K H100 and 50K H200 : Read more

 

[DerKeyser]

All this from the man that warned us against AI 😂
I’m fully aware there is nothing intelligent about current “AI”, but it is still a good show of how doublefaced and cynical these guys are. As long as there is money involved - nothing else matters. No mention of how the energy consumpution and production of all this crap is killing our planet - the planet he supposedly wants to save with Tesla by the way…. No pollution and pointless ressource usage here…

 

[vanadiel007]

AI is so bizarre to me. Even more bizarre than bitcoin or even HDD coin.
It's like why?

I don't see how this could not end in a big bubble burst at some point in the future.

 

[Evildead_666]

I can see him somehow connecting Colossus, Cortex and Memphis together.
Nothing better than to have a huge supercomputer spread over multiple sites for security and redundancy.
If he needs network bandwidth and security, he has Starlink.

 

[FunSurfer]

They need to use Colossus to design a fusion reactor in order to supply enough power to handle its growth rate.

 

[MacZ24]

Title : Elon Musk buys a lot of GPUs
Subtitle : Elon Musk tries to spit on Sam Altman's face and bankrupt him and his company if possible.

 

[hellcinder99]

All that power to ask if the earth is flat or if the lunar landing actually happened. Of course if its Elon, that just means he's looking for new people to implant his seed. Cause we're running out of humans am I right?

 

[Amdlova]

The good, The bad and the ugly...
The good... X user will have the powerfully tool in the word
The bad no one can say what will happens.
The ugly... Same guy has the tesla will set 14 diesels generator to power some of these machines...
Where are the tesla solar powered battery's???

 

[mangaTom]

All this from the man that warned us against AI 😂
I’m fully aware there is nothing intelligent about current “AI”, but it is still a good show of how doublefaced and cynical these guys are. As long as there is money involved - nothing else matters. No mention of how the energy consumpution and production of all this crap is killing our planet - the planet he supposedly wants to save with Tesla by the way…. No pollution and pointless ressource usage here…

The earth isn't going anywhere. It has survived way more worse events than us. It's way more resilient considering the multiple extinction and cosmic event that it has experienced. Humans on the other hand though...

 

[DerKeyser]

The most fascinating thing about these money and power mongers are that they are VERY bright indeed, and usually understands math better than most of us. Yet the most simple curve is completely ignored in the pursuit of money.

This curve could be of such different things as:
- Power consumption and its cost/impact on earth ressources
- Cost of aquiring ressources as they become more scarce/rare
- Specific spicies extinction event as humans overconsume and destroy all natural habitats.
- Global Temperature as MASSIVE supercomputers guzzle Peta or Zetta watthours to generate pointless cryptocoins, make a better chatbot or generate new funny catimages to no use.
- Human overpopulation as the rich and powerfull continues to ignore and overexploit the less fortunate

Most of us understands how things ends with exponential curves......
Yet it doesn't seem to register to these super humans. I guess they are not to bright after all....

 

[jp7189]

I can see him somehow connecting Colossus, Cortex and Memphis together.
Nothing better than to have a huge supercomputer spread over multiple sites for security and redundancy.
If he needs network bandwidth and security, he has Starlink.

Colossus is in Memphis. I took that to be the same deployment with a new name, but this article makes it sounds like a whole new thing... so now I'm confused.

 

[jwcarney67]

Now that X's Colossus supercomputer with 100,000 H100 GPUs is online, Elon Musk hints at its further expansion with 50,000 more H200 GPUs.

xAI Colossus supercomputer with 100K H100 GPUs comes online — Musk lays out plans to double GPU count to 200K with 50K H100 and 50K H200 : Read more

Wondering if the name is intentional. Colossus is the name of a 1966 scfi novel about supercomputers that take power over all humanity. There
was a movie version of the book released in 1970 Called "Colossus: The Forbin Project".

Colossus (novel) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[t3t4]

All this from the man that warned us against AI 😂
I’m fully aware there is nothing intelligent about current “AI”, but it is still a good show of how doublefaced and cynical these guys are. As long as there is money involved - nothing else matters. No mention of how the energy consumpution and production of all this crap is killing our planet - the planet he supposedly wants to save with Tesla by the way…. No pollution and pointless ressource usage here…

Warning about a thing is very different from condemning a thing. You can't buy a push mower let alone a pair of scissors with out being hit with warnings! Yet we all still purchase and still use both, don't we...?

Unless I'm mistaken, he now has the most compute power in the world, doesn't he? Bragging rights alone can be enough of a reason to build the thing, regardless of how it is used. AI whatever, it's all noise. There is nothing intelligent about it! What it is however is computationally intensive, and for that you need something like this. It's nice to be king for a day. Tomorrow somebody will build something bigger and badder. But for today Elon can wear the crown.

Regardless of my opinions on all this AI noise, I still give a "that-a-boy" pat on the back for building such a thing as Colossus.

 

[Misgar]

This is the Colossus Mk2 at Bletchley, used to crack the Lorenz cypher in the Enigma machine during World War 2. You can see the rows of thermionic valves (vacuum tubes) in the picture below.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_computer

Perhaps Elon Musk should rename his machine Colossus Mk3 (or4, 5, 6)?

Enigma machine.

 

[DS426]

I don't see where the ROI is at. Can anyone elaborate on a simple business math example where realistic profits from whatever extra revenue the "AI" creates offsets not only the hardware costs but ongoing electric costs, IT team and devs, etc.? It just seems like all these mega corps are putting the cart before the horse and crossing their fingers for the best.

Is this really how we're going to conduct business in the U.S. now?? This is exactly why investors have shied away from nVidia, making them the new record holder in the largest amount of market cap loss in a single day ($279M USD).

https://www.reuters.com/markets/nvidia-chip-index-tumble-investors-pause-ai-rally-2024-09-03/

Sure, the economy is slowly contracting overall, but this seems pretty telling to me.

 

[Eximo]

Where are the tesla solar powered battery's???

That is actually one side business that has made an impact.

Tesla's Giant Solar & Energy Facility Near Las Vegas Has 528,084 Solar Panels - CleanTechnica

Tesla's giant solar and energy facility near Las Vegas will power 60,000 homes with its 528,084 solar panels and 360 MW Tesla Megapack

cleantechnica.com

That is just one example. There are facilities in California, and if I remember correctly Australia took delivery of a massive system as well. Probably more, but I don't follow it to closely.

 

[Scottelly]

All this from the man that warned us against AI 😂
I’m fully aware there is nothing intelligent about current “AI”, but it is still a good show of how doublefaced and cynical these guys are. As long as there is money involved - nothing else matters. No mention of how the energy consumpution and production of all this crap is killing our planet - the planet he supposedly wants to save with Tesla by the way…. No pollution and pointless ressource usage here…

It's as if you know almost nothing about what Elon has stated that he is trying to do with XAi. Learn a bit, before you pass judgment. XAi is being developed to make sure there is an AI that doesn't lie to us, like Google's AI and Microsoft's AI (ChatGPT). It will hopefully be able to battle whatever AI tries to take over the World too. Think of this as a fight for the survival of humanity, because that is exactly what it could end up being. Nobody knows what AI will do to us, but it could try to kill us. So many systems have already stated they will exterminate humanity that it's insane to think an AI capable of actually doing it can be trusted to not kill us all.