This is an excerpt of a YouTube video (uploaded by Lorenzo on October 16, 2024) capturing Jensen Huang praising Elon Musk and the xAI team for constructing a liquid-cooled, permitted, fully energized supercomputing facility and getting it into training in 19 days. Huang describes the feat as "superhuman," emphasizes the logistics (wiring, networking, software, infrastructure), cites a scale of ~100,000 GPUs and calls it "easily the fastest supercomputer on the planet," and contrasts the 19‑day turnaround with a typical 3‑year plan plus ~1 year to bring equipment online.
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From the moment of concept to building a massive factory, liquid cooled, energized, permitted, in the short time that was done, that is like superhuman. And as far as I know, there's only one person in the world who could do that. You know, I mean, Elon is singular in this understanding of engineering and construction and large systems and marshaling resources. Unbelievable. And of course, then his engineering team is extraordinary. And from the moment that we decided to get to go the planning with our engineering team, our networking team, our infrastructure computing team, the software team, all of the preparation advance, then all of the infrastructure, all of the logistics and the amount of technology and equipment that came in on that day to training. 19 days. 19 days is incredible. But it's also kind of nice to just take a step back and just. Do you know how many days 19 days is? It's just a couple of weeks. And the mountain of technology, if you were to see it, is unbelievable. All of the wiring and the networking and just getting this mountain of technology integrated and all the software. Incredible. Yeah. So I think what Elon and the X team did, what they achieved, is singular. Never been done before. Just to put in perspective, 100,000 GPUs, that's, you know, easily the fastest supercomputer on the planet. That's one cluster. A supercomputer that you would build would take normally three years to plan. And then they deliver the equipment and it takes one year to get it all working. Yes, we're talking about 19 days.