{"id":22752,"date":"2023-04-12T02:32:35","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T02:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/80ba267f-8027-4515-8179-09ee4a9dd42512"},"modified":"2023-04-12T02:32:35","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T02:32:35","slug":"elon-musk-reportedly-bought-thousands-of-gpus-for-a-twitter-ai-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/elon-musk-reportedly-bought-thousands-of-gpus-for-a-twitter-ai-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk reportedly bought thousands of GPUs for a Twitter AI project"},"content":{"rendered":"
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More than a month after hiring a couple of former DeepMind researchers<\/span>, Twitter is reportedly moving forward with an in-house artificial intelligence project. According to Business Insider<\/em><\/span>, Elon Musk recently bought 100,000 GPUs for use at one of the company\u2019s two remaining data centers. A source told the outlet the purchase shows Musk is \u201ccommitted\u201d to the effort, particularly given the fact there would be little reason for Twitter to spend so much money on datacenter-grade GPUs if it didn\u2019t plan to use them for AI work<\/span>.<\/p>\n

The project reportedly involves the creation of a generative AI that the company would train on its own massive trove of data. It\u2019s unclear how Twitter would utilize the technology. Insider<\/em> suggests a generative AI could augment the platform\u2019s search functionality or assist the company in rebuilding its advertising business. In any case, the report colors Musk\u2019s recent decision to sign an open letter<\/span> calling for a six-month pause on AI development.<\/p>\n

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Musk has been a vocal critic of OpenAI, the artificial intelligence research organization he co-founded in 2015<\/span>. \u201cI\u2019m still confused as to how a non-profit to which I donated ~$100M somehow became a $30B market cap for-profit. If this is legal, why doesn\u2019t everyone do it?\u201d Musk said<\/span> in one of his recent Twitter missives against the lab\u2019s for-profit subsidiary, OpenAI Limited Partnership.<\/p>\n

However, a recent report from Semafor<\/em><\/span> suggests his feud with OpenAI is more personal. In 2018, Musk reportedly told Sam Altman, one his fellow co-founders at OpenAI, the lab was falling too far behind Google. Musk then suggested that he should be the one to run the firm, a proposal Altman and OpenAI\u2019s other founders rejected.<\/p>\n

The power struggle led to Musk\u2019s departure from OpenAI, though publicly both parties maintain Musk left due to a conflict of interest involving Tesla. At the time, OpenAI said<\/span> the billionaire would continue to fund its research. However, according to Semafor<\/em>, Musk\u2019s payments stopped after his departure \u2013 despite a promise to provide the firm with roughly $1 billion. The sudden shortfall left OpenAI scrambling to raise cash. In 2019, the organization announced it was creating a for-profit subsidiary to secure the capital it needed to fund its work. That same year, the firm announced a $1 billion investment from Microsoft<\/span>. When OpenAI opened ChatGPT to the public in November and the chatbot began to dominate headlines, Musk was reportedly \u201cfurious.\u201d One month later, he cut OpenAI\u2019s access<\/span> to Twitter\u2019s \u201cfirehose\u201d of data<\/span>. And now it would appear he wants to compete against his old organization head-on.<\/p>\n

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More than a month after hiring a couple of former DeepMind researchers, Twitter is reportedly moving forward with an in-house artificial intelligence project. According to Business Insider, Elon Musk recently bought 100,000 GPUs for use at one of the company\u2019s two remaining data centers. A source told the outlet the purchase shows Musk is \u201ccommitted\u201d …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22752"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22752"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=22752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}