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The musings of an Ohio-based Professional Spreadsheet Jockey. Also interested in video games, music production, and photography.
The musings of an Ohio-based Professional Spreadsheet Jockey. Also interested in video games, music production, and photography.
![The Colossus buildout is worth pausing on. xAI took over an old factory in Memphis and had 100,000 GPUs training in 122 days. Once the racks started arriving, it took just 19 days to get the cluster up and running. “From the moment of concept to building a massive factory, liquid-cooled, energized, permitted, in the sort of time that was done, that is superhuman,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said of Musk. “And as far as I know, there’s only one person in the world who could do that. What they achieved is singular. It’s never been done before. 100,000 GPUs is easily the fastest supercomputer on the planet as one cluster [in 2024]. It’s a supercomputer that would normally take three years to plan, then they deliver the equipment, then it takes one year to get it all working.”
A project that would have taken the rest of the industry at least four years took Musk and the xAI team four months.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kkf3i6l62aqbw4x2b4jvfszp/bafkreigvd4idvkixe7a6nhjljvqx5qwg2xsj4cwuthrptquzxg57koejty)
![Text of the Wikipedia entry screenshotted: Barbaro's friendship with socially conservative Times columnist Ross Douthat has received media attention.[41] In an interview with the New Yorker, Barbaro reflected on how Douthat's socially conservative views affected the pair's friendship: "I've been on a long journey that I know Ross generally approves of," Barbaro said, referring to his ending his same-sex marriage and marrying a woman. "It's no secret that [Douthat] wants people to have children and to enter into monogamous heterosexual relationships."[42]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kkf3i6l62aqbw4x2b4jvfszp/bafkreidykkmrpgblulvivofgoe5i4rd6eisg26hwrohy2trtacr27hq4ce)
