Elon Musk makes big investment in generative-AI project at Twitter

Elon Musk is moving forward with a new generative AI project at Twitter after purchasing thousands of GPUs

, most likely spent many tens of millions of dollars to add so many GPUs, the people familiar said.

The new units are expected to operate from one of Twitter's two remaining data-center sites, most likely the one in Atlanta, the people familiar added. Twitter's other remaining data-center site is in Oregon. Its main data-center site in Sacramento, operated by NTT, wasin late December in a unilateral decision by Musk. The engineering leader Behnam Rezaei resigned over the drastic decision.

Musk has some history with ChatGPT. He cofounded OpenAI alongside Sam Altman and other tech leaders. He walked away from the company in 2018 and has becomethis year after it kicked off the ongoing generative-AI craze, saying it's become"a closed source, maximum-profit company effectively controlled by Microsoft.

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