Oracle has announced the launch of the world's first Zettascale cloud computing cluster. This cluster is equipped with up to 131,072 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, capable of delivering a peak performance of up to 2.4 ZettaFLOPS. This powerful AI infrastructure enables enterprises to process large-scale AI workloads with greater flexibility and sovereignty. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) integrates with NVIDIA's advanced GPU architecture.

On July 9th, Musk announced that his artificial intelligence company xAI is building a supercomputer with 100,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs, expected to be delivered and begin training by the end of this month. This move marks the termination of xAI's negotiations with Oracle to expand the existing agreement and rent more NVIDIA chips. Musk emphasized that this will become "the most powerful training cluster globally with a significant lead." He said that the core competitive edge of xAI lies in speed, "