Musk’s xAI Bypasses Oracle: Pioneering a GPU-Driven Grok 3

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Elon Musk's xAI startup will no longer use Oracle’s Cloud services, opting to build its own infrastructure to meet its aggressive timelines and hardware needs. xAI, aiming to compete with OpenAI, is investing in a massive supercomputer and plans to release Grok 2 in August, with Grok 3 needing 100,000 Nvidia GPUs for training.

TODAY’S ROADMAP

• Current Happenings in AI World

• Elon Musk's xAI Ends Oracle Cloud Partnership, Builds Own Supercomputer for AI Training

• Creating Your Custom Calendar with Claude: A Step-by-Step Guide

• 5 AI Tools to Boost Your Productivity

  and more…

NEWS

Current Happenings in AI World

Antitrust Investigations:

• The U.S. antitrust enforcers are investigating the roles of Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI in the artificial intelligence industry¹.

• The Department of Justice (DOJ) will focus on chipmaker Nvidia, while the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will examine whether Microsoft and OpenAI have unfair advantages in AI technology².

AMD’s Acquisition:

• AMD is making a significant move by acquiring AI company Silo, aiming to compete with Nvidia in the chip market¹.

Anthropic’s New Feature:

• Anthropic’s AI platform, Claude, introduces a feature called “Evaluate.” It allows developers to test multiple prompts simultaneously, streamlining complex coding tasks¹.

GPU Stockpiling:

• Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz plans to stockpile 20,000 GPUs (similar to those used for training AI models) to secure more deals with AI startups.

AI UPDATE

Elon Musk's xAI Ends Oracle Cloud Partnership, Builds Own Supercomputer for AI Training

Elon Musk's xAI startup will not expand its use of Oracle’s Cloud services for future AI training workloads. Talks ended after Oracle admitted it couldn’t match xAI’s timeline demands, according to reports.

Musk confirmed the news on X (Twitter), stating that the startup’s success “depends on being the fastest by far; we must have our own hands on the steering wheel, rather than be a backseat driver.” Previously reliant on Oracle Cloud servers for training its Grok and Grok 1.5 language models, xAI is now building its own training cluster and a massive supercomputer in Memphis to power future efforts.

Set to release Grok 2 in August and work on Grok 3, Musk believes the model needs 100,000 H100 GPUs from Nvidia for effective training. XAI was one of Oracle’s largest cloud service customers, using 16,000 Nvidia GPUs to train its Grok models, but kept increasing hardware demands.

Oracle founder and CTO Larry Ellison said in the company’s Q2 earnings call that xAI “want(s) a lot more GPUs than we gave them,” adding, “We gave them quite a few, but they wanted more, and we're in the process of getting them more.”

XAI’s desire for hardware comes as Musk envisions Grok 3 to be on par with “or beyond” GPT-5, the anticipated next great leap in language models. Valued at $24 billion in just a year, the startup aims to move fast to compete with OpenAI. Musk emphasized on X that “the reason we decided to do the 100k H100 and next major system internally was that our fundamental competitiveness depends on being faster than any other AI company. This is the only way to catch up.”

AI AT JOB

Creating Your Custom Calendar with Claude: A Step-by-Step Guide

• Visit Claude’s Website:

  • Go to the Claude website and log in.

• Select Claude 3.5 Sonnet:

  • Make sure you choose the Claude 3.5 Sonnet model.

• Write Your Prompt:

  • In the prompt box, enter the following prompt: “Create a Google Calendar clone.”

• Refine Your Calendar:

  • Once you receive the basic calendar, use additional prompts to enhance it.

  • Here are some functionalities you can add:

    • Make it interactive and deletable so you can remove values.

    • Add a button to insert events into the calendar.

• Explore Further Customizations:

  • You can continue refining your calendar by adding more features.

  • Consider features like drag-and-drop functionality, color coding for events, time selection, and more.

• Download and Run Your Code:

  • After customizing your calendar, download the code and run it to access your personalized calendar.

AI MEETS PRODUCTIVITY

5 AI Tools to Boost Your Productivity

• Keatext:

  • Understand engagement drivers and receive tailored AI-based recommendations to enhance customer and employee experiences.

• Pieces:

  • An on-device coding assistant that boosts developer productivity by helping solve complex development tasks using AI.

• Brilliant*:

  • Access human intelligence for the age of AI through interactive, bite-sized lessons that explore cutting-edge concepts.

• SketchMe:

  • Transform selfies into unique AI-generated illustrations across various artistic styles.

• Translized:

  • Leverage AI for high-quality localization across applications, web interfaces, and games.

PROMPT OF THE DAY

Sci-Fi Author

prompt: I want you to act as a Sci-fi author. Write in a contemporary, gritty, streetwise style. Include metaphors sparingly. Show do not tell. Reference sight, hearing, smell. Make the story related to [dogs in space]

Creative Sci-Fi story for your favorite topics.

AI CRAFTED IMAGES

A Long Discussion

Prompt: Two skeletons sitting at a table with a bottle of wine and two glasses in front of them. They are full of spiderwebs showing the long time waiting. The background is a house porch.

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