xAI finished raising $6 billion in new funding and has begun receiving Nvidia GB200 chips. The chips are arriving about a month earlier than expected in a prior chart. I have adjusted by a month for xAI releases. I have also added the Google Gemini models. Google appears able to not have as much issue scaling with TPU chips.
Christmas arrived early at @xai‘s Colossus! pic.twitter.com/OC6xf4ZGX4
— Uday Ruddarraju (@udayruddarraju) December 18, 2024
Looks like @xai s got the NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 up from @MichaelDell . Among first to turn on, they only started shipping these a month ago. https://t.co/rE8JpArX4I
— Tim Zaman (@tim_zaman) December 18, 2024
Announcing our Series C of $6B to accelerate our progress
Investors participating include a16z, Blackrock, Fidelity, Kingdom Holdings, Lightspeed, MGX, Morgan Stanley, OIA, QIA, Sequoia Capital, Valor Equity Partners, Vy Capital, Nvidia, AMD, among others
— xAI (@xai) December 23, 2024
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[ correction (because statistics of most recent years are significant for change, 99% produced within recent 5-10yrs):
Total transistors ever produced:
1 septillion(/quadrillion on long scale) (10²⁴) transistors (approx.) ]