How can Elon Musk build a supercomputer in19 days, when his competitors take four years?

chappachula
Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:13:58 +0000
Factual Questions

This link says that Musk built a supercomputer in 19 days, instead of taking three years to design and one more year to build.
How is this possible?
Is there something different about Musks’s supercomputer than his competitors?

Maybe he didn’t need to design it, and just copied an existing design? But even then, it supposedly takes “over a year” to build. That’s waaay more than 19 days!

What are Musk’s employees doing that nobody else knows how to do?
( Also , if you were hiring somebody for your company, would you believe a resume submitted by a project manager saying that he “successfully managed a team which completed a 365-day project in 19 days”? )

What’s the straightDope here?

xAI’s Memphis supercomputer was constructed in record time—just 19 days… Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang highlighted this as unprecedented, stating that similar projects typically take three years to plan and over a year to execute.

The Economic Times

Elon Musk builds xAI, world's largest AI computing system in just 16 months,...

Elon Musks xAI has redefined the AI landscape, achieving a staggering $50 billion valuation in just 16 months—a feat that took industry leader OpenAI over nine years.

(I took this link from the currently-running GD thread about Musk and Tesla’s market value)

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