Elon Musk’s xAI assembled the “Colossus” training cluster in Memphis, chaining together 100,000 liquid-cooled NVIDIA H100 GPUs in just 19 days to train their next-generation Grok models, setting a new benchmark for infrastructure engineering speed.
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