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While xAI promised to resolve the issue, many are asking for elected leaders to take a stand against the company’s presence in Memphis. The Greater Memphis Chamber and other xAI proponents have not released a statement on the matter.
According to the Financial Times, xAI plans to spend $18 billion on expanding its compute infrastructure. The company trains its models using a supercomputer called Colossus that is located in Memphis. Earlier this year, Musk stated that xAI plans to increase the number of graphics cards in the system from 200,000 to 1 million.
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Action News 5 on MSNLocals react to Grok hate speech amid mayor’s ordinance proposal for xAI tax dollarsThe artificial intelligence chatbot shared several tweets spewing hateful messages, even comparing itself to Adolf Hitler.
In a livestream with xAI colleagues, the billionaire entrepreneur described current AI systems as “primitive” and not for “serious” commercial use.
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup attained an official permit to power its Memphis supercomputer facility using natural gas-burning turbines.
Elon Musk's xAI is under fire after its chatbot Grok on Tuesday shared antisemitic tropes and even praised Hitler. Grok is a computer program that can make conversation with humans. It has its own account on X — formerly Twitter — where it responds to users' questions.
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI has launched Grok 4, positioning it as the world's most powerful AI model according to benchmarks that show it outperforming OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini,
xAI is importing an entire power station from abroad to supply one of its US data centers, owner Elon Musk claims. The power station would feed the company’s new data center being planned in Memphis, Tennessee, where xAI hopes to host up to one million GPUs.
Elon Musk’s xAI gas turbines get official approval, even as civil rights groups prepare to sue over alleged Clean Air Act violations.
Tech companies are looking to natural gas to power their data centers with natural gas. Opponents of Elon Musk's Memphis facility say its turbines are "silent strangulation" by air pollution. When a scientific analysis failed to find dangerous levels of pollutants,
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Cryptopolitan on MSNElon Musk’s xAI successfully raises $10 billion from lenders and investorsElon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, has raised $10 billion in fresh capital, according to Morgan Stanley, which handled the financing.
The head of infrastructure at Elon Musk's xAI has departed. Uday Ruddarraju spent a little over a year at the company, which also includes social media platform X. Update: Ruddarraju has joined OpenAI. "After an unforgettable ride, I’ve decided to move on from xAI and yesterday was my last day," Ruddarraju said on LinkedIn.