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Huang: xAI Brought 100,000-GPU Cluster from Delivery to Training in 19 Days
“NVIDIA, NVIDIA's infrastructure and computing infrastructure and all that technology, to training, 19 days.”
Gerstner: Altimeter projected Cursor could exit the year at $10B revenue
“Our own, ah, projections were that they could exit this year at up to ten billion dollars of revenue, so they were growing very fast, ah, ah, one of the leading coding agents.”
Baker: xAI's Google deal yields higher profit per GW than competitors
“He shows that XAI's deal with Google for cloud computing generates more operating profit per gigawatt than Anthropic, than Meta, than Google, than OpenAI.”
Baker: Grok 4.3 was the most intelligent 500B parameter model in the world
“Grok 4.3 was on the Pareto frontier, and as of 10 or 12 days ago, and these things move fast, most intelligent, five hundred billion parameter model in the world. And they were on the frontier, and there are four companies on the frontier. XAI, SpaceX AI, Goog…”
Baker: Musk's Infrastructure Became the Fourth-Largest AI Hyperscaler
“In 30 days, we went from not being an AI hyperscaler to being number four, and we passed a lot of companies, including Oracle.”
Huang: xAI Brought a 100k GPU Cluster Online in 19 Days
“Just to put in perspective, a 100,000 GPUs, that's You know, easily the fastest supercomputer on the planet as one cluster. A supercomputer, ah, that you would build would take normally three years to plan. And then they deliver the equipment, and it takes one…”
Huang: Elon Musk will likely build a gigawatt AI cluster first
“I would not be surprised if he gets to a gigawatt before anybody else does.”
Gerstner: Frontier AI race is closed to everyone except Musk and Altman
“And so if you said, is this still an open sport? I'd say no way, right? I don't know anybody else other than the Elon and Sam at this point.”
Gerstner: OpenAI is accelerating and widening its consumer AI lead
“The odds on favorite there has to be open AI. I think they continue to widen their gap, by the way, Bill, I think they're accelerating at scale, but that's where the race is.”
Gerstner: xAI will serve as the hyperscaler powering Musk's companies
“A hundred percent. I think there's no doubt about it. It already is, and it will continue to be. Like, he has a Koretsu, as they say in Japan, of companies that can leverage each other's insights, and I fully expect that they will.”
Gerstner: xAI will be one of the top three or four frontier AI players
“If scaling these data centers is a key competitive advantage to winning an AI, right? You, like you absolutely cannot count out X.AI in this battle. They're certainly gonna have to figure out, you know, something with the consumer that's gonna have a flywheel …”
Huang: Elon Musk Is Singular in Engineering and Large-Scale Construction
“Elon is singular in this understanding of, Engineering, and construction, and large systems, and marshaling resources.”
Baker: Musk builds data centers faster than anyone at 122 days
“We do know from Jensen that
Elon brings data centers up faster than anyone, a 122 days.”
Baker: Grok 4.5T parameter model is injecting Cursor data into pre-training
“The Grok 4.5 trillion parameter model is training. One would hypothesize based on scaling laws that that will might be a better base model. And then the cursor data is being injected into the pre-training process, not just reinforcement learning.”
Fox: xAI signed compute deals with Anthropic and Google worth billions
“They just signed Anthropic at 22 to 23. They just signed Google at 50.”
Gerstner: xAI will launch Grok 3 trained on world's biggest cluster
“We're going to see he's going to launch Grok three here. I think they're going to have the output the first training run on the biggest cluster in the world. And we're excited to see what that yields from my own perspective.”
Gerstner: xAI's Memphis cluster is the world's largest coherent supercomputer
“It's the single largest coherent supercomputer in the world today, that it's going to get bigger.”
Gerstner: xAI built and energized its supercomputer cluster in 19 days
“What would take somebody else years to get permitted, to get energized, to get liquid cool, to get stood up that x.ai did in 19 days”
Huang: A 100,000-GPU Cluster Is Easily the Fastest Supercomputer on Earth
“A 100,000 GPUs, that's, you know, easily the fastest supercomputer on the planet. That's one cluster.”