Look on my Works, ye Mighty Behold Colossus: Elon Musk’s new supercomputer, allegedly powered by a staggering 100,000 Nvidia AI chips, which would be more than any single AI system on the planet. Built in Tennessee for his artificial intelligence startup xAI, Musk announced Monday that the formidable data center was finally brought online over the Labor Day weekend, after spending just 122 days assembling it — a record, according to Nvidia. “Colossus is the most powerful AI training system in the world,” Musk said in a tweet. The supercomputer is built with Nvidia H100 graphics processing units, which are the industry’s most coveted pieces of hardware for training and running generative AI systems, such as AI chatbots and image generators. And xAI’s current tally of them is just the beginning. Musk claimed that, in a few months, Colossus will “double” in size to 200,000 AI chips, which will include 50,000 H200 GPUs, a newer version that Nvidia says will have nearly twice the memory capacity as its predecessor, and 40 percent more bandwidth. Fast Learners Musk only founded xAI last summer, its premier product being Grok, a foul-mouthed AI chatbot integrated into X-formerly-Twitter. That Musk’s company has managed to match up to the hardware capabilities of tech leaders who’ve had a years-long head start, such as bitter rivals OpenAI and its backers Microsoft, is impressive — assuming that Musk’s penchant for exaggeration isn’t at work once again. As Fortune notes, Nvidia sees Musk as one of its best customers, since…Elon Musk Claims He Just Activated the World's Most Powerful AI Supercomputer