Elon Musk's AI startup, xAI, has raised $6 billion Series B. The pre-money valuation of $18 billion. 

xAI is an American startup company working in the area of artificial intelligence (AI). Founded by Elon Musk in March 2023, its stated goal is "to understand the true nature of the universe". While the chatbot Grok is xAI's only product at the moment, the startup intends to significantly expand its AI-related product portfolio by ramping up its investments in GPU clusters.

To wit, in response to an online poll, Elon Musk has announced that xAI's "next big step would probably be ~300k B200s with CX8 networking next summer."

Back in March, NVIDIA's CEO Jensen Huang revealed that the company's latest B200 GPUs would likely be priced at between $30,000 and $40,000. This means that xAI is about to spend a whopping $9 billion on acquiring around 300,000 units of the B200 GPU, assuming the company is able to negotiate a price point that is at the lowest end of Huang's stated range.

Do note that NVIDIA's H100 chips are now about to cede the proverbial ground to the latest GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip. The chip combines one Arms-based Grace CPU with two Blackwell B100 GPUs and can deploy an AI model with 27 trillion parameters. Moreover, the superchip is expected to be 30 times faster at tasks like serving up answers from chatbots.

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