OpenAI Supercharges Stargate as Elon Musk Targets 50 Million AI Chips

Key Points

1. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced an expansion of the Stargate I site in Abilene, Texas, expecting over one million GPUs to be online by the end of 2025.

2. OpenAI's infrastructure project could support more than 5 GW of power, enough for over two million AI chips, potentially exceeding its original $500 billion plan.

3. Elon Musk revealed xAI's goal to reach the equivalent of 50 million H100 AI chips within five years, which would be 500 times more computing power than last year's most powerful AI supercomputer.

4. xAI's upcoming Colossus 2 system is expected to run on 550,000 GB200 chips, matching about 5.5 million H100s in computing power.

5. xAI recently signed a $200 million agreement with the US Department of Defense, though the specifics of the deal were not detailed in the article.