Xai acquires Ki -Videogeneration Startup Hotshot

Elon Musks Xai Corp. Hot Hot Hot, a startup that developed artificial intelligence models that were optimized for video tasks.

Aakash Sastry, Chief Executive Officer from Hotshot, announced the deal in A today post The financial conditions were not detailed about X.. The company previously raised a united fund from Reddit Inc.-co-founder Alexis Ohanian, SV Angel and other investors.

Hotshot, officially natural synthetics Inc., started in 2023 with a AI-driven image generation and processing tool. The company revolved the following year with the start of a video model. The algorithm can create 10-second clips with a resolution of 1280 by 720 pixels.

The company trains its model on a data record of 600 million clips. During the development process, it created a second neuronal network to automatically generate caps for these clips. Imprintings facilitate AI models to understand videos, which in turn optimize the training workflow.

Hotshot has configured its video engineer in such a way that the BFLOAT16 data format is used. The format makes it possible to compress information from 32 bits into 16 bits, which reduces the amount of data that AI models have to process during the calculations. The resulting efficiency improvements accelerate the training.

The videoogenerer was used for four months with several thousand A100 graphics processing units from NVIDIA CORP. trained. This is a small fraction of the 200,000 Nvidia chips Xai installed in Colossus, the supercomputer with which he supplies his AI models with electricity. In the X -Post, in which the acquisition was announced, Sastry wrote that Hotshot “continue” his videoogenerator development efforts with Colossus.

The supercomputer runs in a 750,000 square meter Memphis facility, in which a home equipment plant took place. The first version of Colossus came online last September with 100,000 graphics cards. The current iteration, which, in addition to its 200,000 chips, includes more than 1 Exabyte memory, was started three months later.

At the beginning of this year Xai acquired A second location in Memphis to support infrastructure -upgrades. The company hopes to increase Colossus' graphics card to 1 million by the end of the year. As part of the efforts, Xai reported reports with Dell Technologies Inc. purchase More than 5 billion US dollars AI server.

The move of the company to video is not unexpected. In January, Elon Musk reports specified This Xai plans to publish a model generation model within a few months. The company will probably offer the algorithm through its application programming interface alongside Grok, its flagship -large model series.

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