Even without a Neuralink implant, Elon Musk has a lot going on in his head. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the way Musk’s brain works makes him capable of accomplishing “unique” feats.
Musk plays a pivotal role in at least five companies and is building tech from robots to self-driving cars to AI companions. On top of all that, he’s also building Colossus II, which he said was “the world’s first Gigawatt AI training cluster.”
On the “BG2 podcast,” Huang said that Musk kept scores of information within his head — making him similar to one of Nvidia’s chips.
“These AI supercomputers are complicated things,” Huang said. “The technology is complicated. Procuring it is complicated because of financing issues. Securing the land power and shell, powering it is complicated.”
Huang said that it was “unquestionably the most complex systems problem humanity has ever endeavored.”
As Musk aims to solve that “systems problem,” Huang said that Musk had one thing going for him: “All of these systems are interoperating and the interdependencies reside in one head, including the financing.”
The podcast’s hosts compared Musk to a “big GPT” or a supercomputer, to which Huang said, “He’s the ultimate GPU.”
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“He has a great sense of urgency,” Huang said. “He has a real desire to to build it, and so when will comes together with skill, unbelievable things can happen. Quite unique.”
Musk is building xAI’s Colossus II data center outside of Memphis, Tennessee. He has already spent at least $400 million on the world’s largest supercomputer, per documents reviewed by Business Insider.
Huang has good reason to praise the Tesla CEO — Musk’s companies are major Nvidia customers, after all. The Colossus II comprises at least 200,000 Nvidia GPUs. The supercomputer aims to expand to at least 1 million GPUs. That being said, Nvidia’s chips have quickly become a hot commodity, with the company supplying much of computing systems in Big Tech’s AI race. Last week, Nvidia announced a $100 billion into OpenAI — helmed by Musk’s frenemy Sam Altman — to support the build-out of AI data centers.
On the podcast, Huang sounded confident in Musk’s ability.
“I would not be surprised if he gets to a gigawatt before anybody else does,” Huang said.
