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Timeline · October 28, 2024

What Nvidia and xAI said on October 28, 2024

Nvidia said xAI and Nvidia built the Colossus cluster in Memphis in 122 days, starting with 100,000 Nvidia Hopper GPUs on Spectrum-X Ethernet networking, and that xAI planned to double it to 200,000 GPUs.

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