Elon Musk’s xAI Unveils Colossus 2, First Gigawatt+ AI Supercomputer Powered by Nvidia; a16z Acquires High-End GPU Workstation
Elon Musk announced that Colossus 2, developed by his company xAI, will be the world’s first AI training supercomputer to exceed one gigawatt in power consumption. The supercomputer will be primarily powered by Nvidia technology. Separately, venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has acquired a personal GPU AI workstation featuring four NVIDIA RTX 6000 PRO Blackwell Max-Q GPUs with a total of 384GB VRAM, 8TB of NVMe PCIe 5.0 storage, an AMD Threadripper PRO 7975WX processor with 32 cores and 64 threads, 256GB ECC DDR5 RAM, and a peak power consumption of 1650 watts, all running on a standard power supply.
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Marco Mascorro
🚨 New: We built @a16z's personal GPU AI Workstation Founders Edition - 4x NVIDIA RTX 6000 PRO Blackwell Max-Q (384GB total VRAM) - 8TB of NVMe PCIe 5.0 storage - AMD Threadripper PRO 7975WX (32 cores, 64 threads) - 256GB ECC DDR5 RAM - 1650Watts at peak (runs on a standard https://t.co/OOKjVtIdFl
- Marco Mascorro
🚨 𝐍𝐞𝐰: We built @a16z's personal GPU AI Workstation Founders Edition - 4x NVIDIA RTX 6000 PRO Blackwell Max-Q (384𝐆𝐁 total VRAM) - 8TB of NVMe PCIe 5.0 storage - AMD Threadripper PRO 7975WX (32 cores, 64 threads) - 256GB ECC DDR5 RAM - 1650Watts at peak (runs on a standard https://t.co/g5zrspBiZr
The AI Investor Elon Musk - "Colossus 2, built by @xAI, will be the world’s first Gigawatt+ AI training supercomputer" ... powered mostly by Nvidia. https://t.co/KIVv1ifoh0
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