Musks Colossus 1 AI supercomputers inefficient mixedarchitecture design couldnt be used to train Grok, so Anthropics using it for inference instead Musk readies unified Blackwellonly Colossus 2 for frontier training and potential IPO
News Source : Tom's Hardware UK
News Summary
- Anthropic announced that it had struck a deal with SpaceX to lease all of the latter's Colossus 1 data center.
- The deal immediately raises questions, foremost among them: why would Musk lease one of xAI’s most aggressively hyped AI assets to a direct rival?
- With SpaceX's IPO just around the corner, a related strategy appears to be at play.
- It also turns out that the system's mixed architecture with different types of GPUs may be a key reason Musk has decided to lease the system.
Last week, Anthropic announced that it had struck a deal with SpaceX to lease all of the latters Colossus 1 data center, with over 220,000 GPUs and 30 megawatts of compute capacity.
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