In an episode of the “Bg2Pod” podcast aired on October 13, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang commented that setting up a supercomputer cluster in such a short time is “superhuman.” Normally, this task would take years.

“As far as I know, there is only one person in the world who can do that; Elon is the only one who understands engineering, construction, large systems and resource allocation; it's unbelievable,” said the Nvidia CEO.

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Elon Musk was praised by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang for setting up a supercomputer cluster in a short time. Photo: Bloomberg

xAI built the Colossus supercomputer from a cluster of 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs. In September, Elon Musk wrote in an X post that it took 122 days “from start to finish” to bring the cluster online, likely referring to the total project time.

Nvidia CEO also praised xAI's engineering, software, network and infrastructure teams as "extraordinary."

In an interview in June, Musk shared that it took 19 days to get Colossus from hardware installation to training, which he boasted was the fastest it had ever been.

In addition, Huang also said that xAI's supercomputer cluster is the fastest supercomputer on the planet. "A normal supercomputer takes 3 years to plan, transport equipment and another year to operate."

Musk launched xAI in 2023 to compete with OpenAI. In August, the company introduced the AI ​​chatbot Grok-2. In early 2024, the company announced that it had successfully raised $6 billion.

(According to Insider)