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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Jowi Morales

Elon Musk says xAI will have more AI compute than everyone else combined within five years — Macrohard-branded Colossus 2 data center a nod to Musk's AI project to challenge Microsoft

Elon Musk, Grok 3.5, xAI.

Elon Musk took to social media to claim that xAI, his pet AI project, will have more computing power than everyone else in the world combined in less than five years. The billionaire said this in response to an X post that says xAI is the “best team to join if you want to innovate,” specifically mentioning efficiency (intelligence per watt/mass) and scale (total harnessed energy/matter). The post Musk was responding to also shared the assessment of semiconductor industry research group SemiAnalysis, saying that xAI painting “Macrohard” on the roof of its Colossus 2 data center shows how serious it is in challenging Microsoft’s dominance.

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