Elon Musk would also have the intention to look seriously, very seriously, at generative AI. We thus learn that the entrepreneur would have bought no less than 10,000 GPUs to power Twitter’s efforts in this field.
After hiring two former DeepMind researchers, Twitter is said to be building up a huge fleet of graphics cards to power its efforts in the field of generative artificial intelligence. In any case, this is what Business Insiderwhose information was taken up on Tuesday by Engadget. We learn that Elon Musk would indeed have acquired no less than 10,000 GPUs in order to use them in one of the two data centers that the company still owns.
According to a source contacted by the American media, this massive purchase would be proof of ” commitmentby Elon Musk on the field of generative AI. Still according to information from Business Insiderthis project would involve, ultimately the creation of an AI that Twitter would train internally, from its own heaps of data.
A generative AI on Twitter… but for what?
It remains to know what to do. Engadget believes that a generative AI could allow the firm to improve its research, even to help it to rebuild its advertising activity – largely compromised by the takeover of Elon Musk and the often erratic (even completely incongruous) measures put in place on the platform by the billionaire.
Anyway, and as the specialized site points out, this new information gives a different flavor to Elon Musk’s recent positions regarding generative AI and its dazzling progress in recent months. Recently, the businessman signed, for example, an open letter calling on the Tech giants to take a 6-month break on the development of AI. A lapse of time which could possibly benefit Twitter, for the moment very much behind on this market.
I’m 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’t everyone do it?
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 15, 2023
In March, Elon Musk also stood up against the status of a non-profit organization, then to “profitcapped” from Open AI. A company that he had co-founded in 2015.
“I still don’t understand how a non-profit, to which I donated about $100 million, could become a capped profit company with a market capitalization of $30 billion. If it’s legal, why isn’t everyone doing it?he exclaimed. Words potentially linked to personal resentment, because if we are to believe a recent article bySemaforMusk reportedly asked (unsuccessfully) to be given the leadership of Open AI in 2018.
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