xAI's Colossus to hit 1.1M NVIDIA GB300s by year-end, Elon lays out ramp
XFreeze · x · 2026-09-25
Elon Musk laid out xAI's Colossus GPU ramp: 440K NVIDIA GB300s already running, +220K fully operational next week, +220K in November, and +220K more by late December — potentially 1.1 million GB300s by year-end, and that's just the GB300 fleet alone.
Related event: Musk Reveals xAI Compute: Colossus 2 May Reach 1.1 Million GPUs by Year-End(4 posts)→
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