Memphis residents are getting a chance to tell Mayor Paul Young and council members how they want tax dollars from the xAI over the next six weeks, but a cloud still hangs over the project. Elon Musk’s xAI supercomputer was announced last year and unlike other projects,

As Grok fired off replies on X praising Hitler, the chatbot's parent company also recently got permission to emit 97 tons of carbon monoxide per year to keep it running.

Grok 4 marks a significant advance in reasoning, scientific problem-solving, and real-time information access. Trained on over 200,000 GPUs using xAI’s Colossus supercomputer, it achieves ten times the reasoning power of Grok 3. The model uses reinforcement learning to tackle complex and novel problems across multiple subjects.

Elon Musk's plans to ship an overseas power plant to Memphis for an xAI supercomputer raise both interest and environmental concerns.

The new hires are joining OpenAI’s scaling team, according to an internal Slack message sent by cofounder Greg Brockman.

Grok 4 was trained on Colossus, a supercomputer that xAI launched in Memphis last year. The system featured 100,000 graphics cards when it came online in September. According to xAI, that number topped 200,000 in May and will eventually reach 1 million.

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The release comes months after the AI startup launched its previous iteration, suggesting an ongoing lightning pace of AI development.