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Anton Shilov

'Everyone and Their Dog is Buying GPUs,' Musk Says as AI Startup Details Emerge

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Elon Musk has confirmed that his companies Tesla and Twitter were buying tons of GPUs when asked to confirm whether he was building up Twitters compute prowess to develop a generative artificial intelligence project. Meanwhile, the Financial Times reports that Musk's AI venture will be a separate entity from his other companies, but it could use Twitter content for training.

Elon Musk's AI project, which he began exploring earlier this year, is reportedly separate from his other companies, but could potentially use Twitter content as data to train its language model and tap into Tesla's computing resources, according to Financial Times. This somewhat contradicts the earlier report which claimed that the AI project would be a part of Twitter. 

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