Musk Denies CNBC Report on Chip Diversion; Neuralink Successfully Implants First Interface
Summary:
Elon Musk refutes a CNBC report claiming he directed Nvidia to reallocate AI chips intended for Tesla to his private social media firm, X. The controversy allegedly led to a 1% drop in Tesla's shares and seemingly stoked disquiet among some Tesla investors. The tech titan is known for his significant strides in the AI realm, with his firms posing significant competition to OpenAI and Google. Recently, Musk's Neuralink received approval for human trials and successfully installed a brain-to-computer interface in a human test subject.
Renowned tech mogul Elon Musk has hit back at a CNBC report, dated 4th June, suggesting that Musk directed Nvidia to divert AI chips, originally designated for Tesla, to his privately held social media firm, X. CNBC had implied in their report that according to emails received from Nvidia, Musk had requested the graphics processing and AI chip manufacturer to reroute 12,000 Nvidia H100 chips from Tesla to X. Musk, however, reacted strongly to these insinuations through various social media posts, denying the allegations and emphasizing that Tesla had no present use for the chips, and they would have only ended up gathering dust in storage.
Refuting the CNBC report, Musk stated, “The south wing of the Giga Texas [factory] is almost finished. It will accommodate 50k H100s for FSD training,” and, in another social media update, accused the article's author of falsehood.
The controversy apparently led to a 1% drop in Tesla shares in the early hours of June 4. CNBC additionally purports that this issue further stoked pre-existing disquiet between Musk and a faction of Tesla investors concerned about possible conflicts of interest and Musk's increasing commitments.
Musk oversees and possesses a portfolio of advanced tech firms, both public and private, including Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, xAI, and his social media platform X, previously known as Twitter.
On the AI front, Musk has made significant strides with firms like xAI and Neuralink posing significant competition to OpenAI and Google.
X initiated a gradual deployment of the Grok chatbot in 2023, positioning it as a “non-woke” alternative to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Subsequently, the expansive language model chatbot has become accessible to all exclusive users of the X social media platform.
Musk’s venture, Neuralink also received approval from the U.S. Federal Drug Administration to conduct human trials. In February, Neuralink successfully placed the first-ever brain-to-computer interface in a human test subject. Musk shared that the subject was able to manipulate a computer mouse using the interface purely through his thoughts.
Additional coverage includes articles on deepfake K-Pop pornography, woke Grok, concerns about OpenAI, and Fetch.AI in the AI Eye magazine.
Published At
6/4/2024 11:33:03 PM
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