Is Elon Musk "Superhuman"? Here's Why Nvidia's Jensen Huang Thinks So After the Tesla Chief's $7 Billion Feat
Key Points
Musk is known for businesses like Tesla.
His AI company, however, is making major breakthroughs.
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According to Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang, Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk is a "superhuman." Huang's words speak for themselves. "Elon Musk is singular in his understanding of engineering," Huang commented, adding that Musk's recent accomplishment had "never been done before."
What exactly did Musk accomplish? The accomplishment, it turns out, has more to do with time than physical matter.
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Huang thinks there is "only one person in the world" who could do this
Musk isn't just the leader of Tesla. He also has interests in a variety of other business ventures, including xAI, an artificial intelligence company.
The artificial intelligence space is expected to grow by 30% per year for years, if not decades to come. A big part of that growth requires building out data centers, which make it possible for these advanced technologies to be created, deployed, and executed.
Nvidia has a dominant market share when it comes to selling its GPUs to data centers, so Huang is understandably very tuned in to the speed and pace at which these data centers are being constructed. Huang is also closely monitoring the construction of supercomputers, which can use an even greater density of Nvidia's GPUs than data centers.
According to reports, xAI recently built a supercomputer dubbed "Colossus" using 100,000 Nvidia GPUs. Construction took just 19 days, though the total project timeline likely was closer to 122 days. The total cost is estimated to be roughly $7 billion.
"Just to put it in perspective, 100,000 GPUs -- that's easily the fastest supercomputer on the planet as one cluster," Huang said, adding that most companies would take years to replicate such a feat. "It's just unbelievable," Huang added.
So while most investors know of Musk for his Tesla and X affiliations, his AI company xAI has been making major breakthroughs in a completely different industry.
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