xAI Closes $20 Bn Funding Round to Accelerate Grok Training, Data Centres
#ArtificialIntelligence #AINews #XAI
via Analytics India Magazine
#ArtificialIntelligence #AINews #XAI
via Analytics India Magazine
Telegraph
xAI Closes $20 Bn Funding Round to Accelerate Grok Training,…
Elon Musk’s xAI has raised $20 billion in an upsized Series E funding round, exceeding its initial $15 billion target, as the company scales its AI infrastructure and product development. The round attracted participation from Valor Equity Partners, Stepstone…
X is still having issues following an hour-long outage on Friday
#AI #News #Social_Media #Tech #Twitter_X #xAI
via AI | The Verge
#AI #News #Social_Media #Tech #Twitter_X #xAI
via AI | The Verge
Telegraph
X is still having issues following an hour-long outage on Fr…
On Friday morning, X and Grok went offline for users around the world on both the websites and apps. Outage reports began spiking on DownDetector around 10:00AM ET, while Cisco's ThousandEyes outage map noted over 600 X servers around the world that were…
📊 #xAI has officially become the first to bring a gigawatt-scale coherent AI training #cluster online
That’s more electricity than the peak demand of San Francisco. While competitors are still drafting roadmaps for 2027, xAI is already operating at major city–level power today
The execution speed is unreal:
Colossus 1 → from dirt to fully operational in 122 days
Colossus 2 → just crossed the 1 GW barrier, targeting 2 GW total. Elon’s playbook hasn’t changed:
move faster than everyone, scale before they finish meetings
The strategy is clear: speed and execution at scale
#LLM@TutorialBTC
That’s more electricity than the peak demand of San Francisco. While competitors are still drafting roadmaps for 2027, xAI is already operating at major city–level power today
The execution speed is unreal:
Colossus 1 → from dirt to fully operational in 122 days
Colossus 2 → just crossed the 1 GW barrier, targeting 2 GW total. Elon’s playbook hasn’t changed:
move faster than everyone, scale before they finish meetings
The strategy is clear: speed and execution at scale
#LLM@TutorialBTC