Jensen Huang on Elon Musk and xAI building the fastest supercomputer on the planet in 19 days

“From the moment of concept to building a massive factory, liquid-cooled, energized, permitted, in the short time that was done. That is superhuman. And as far as I know, there’s only one person in the world who could do that.”

Jensen puts the 19 days that it took xAI to build their supercomputer in Memphis into perspective:

“What they achieved is singular. It’s never been done before. Just to put it in perspective: 100,000 GPUs is easily the fastest supercomputer on the planet as one cluster. It’s a supercomputer that would take normally three years to plan, then they deliver the equipment, then it takes one year to get it all working.”

In other words, this should’ve taken at least four years, but Elon and the xAI team were able to do it in just 19 days.

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