Elon Musk, co-founder of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of X Holdings Corp., speaks at the Milken Institute Global Conference at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on May 6, 2024 in Beverly Hills, California.
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shares Dell Technologies and super microcomputer Elon Musk said the two hardware makers will provide servers to help his artificial intelligence startup xAI develop supercomputers, sending the company’s shares soaring on Thursday.
“Dell is assembling half of the racks in the supercomputer xAI is building,” Musk said in an X report. postaladded Super Micro will also be involved.
Dell shares were up more than 3% in premarket trading, while Advanced Micro Devices was up about 5%.
Musk promises to build a US$500 million the “Dojo” supercomputer in Buffalo, N.Y., and the company’s “ultra-dense water-cooled supercomputer cluster” at its New York City facility Austin, Texas. The technology could help Tesla develop the computer vision and large language models needed for robots and self-driving cars.
Musk founded xAI last year as a challenger to artificial intelligence Microsoft– Supports OpenAI and Alphabet’s Google. Musk is also the co-founder of OpenAI.
Dell CEO Michael Dell said in an X report on Wednesday postal His company is building a “Dell AI factory” Nvidia Powering Musk’s artificial intelligence robot Grok.