"Juying" ist tatsächlich gekommen. Elon Musk geht hart gegen Microsoft an und kündigt offiziell ein neues Unternehmen an: Es will mit KI das gesamte Microsoft "nachbauen".

While people are still grappling with the latest developments from OpenAI, Google, and Meta in the field of artificial intelligence, Elon Musk has once again drawn attention to himself. Recently, he officially announced that his company, xAI, will establish a new AI software company called Macrohard (Riesenhart).

If one only hears the name, one might think that this is just a typical Musk "tech joke," a kind of mockery of Microsoft. But if one looks more closely, one will find that this time he is not just joking, but seriously trying to establish a software company solely driven by AI agents to challenge the world's most powerful software empire.

Elon Musk emphasized on X: "The name may sound a bit funny, but the project is absolutely real."

From a joke to an official project description

In fact, the name Macrohard didn't just appear today. As early as 2021, Musk made a joke on X: "Macrohard >> Microsoft." At that time, no one took it seriously and people only thought that Musk was "attacking" Bill Gates.

In July 2024, there was a global outage at Microsoft, denying millions of users access to its services. Musk took this opportunity to bring up the old post again and joke about it.

But no one would have thought that Musk would actually turn this joke into reality a year later.

On August 22nd of this year, he announced on X: "Join @xAI and help us establish a pure AI software company called Macrohard. The name may sound funny, but the project is absolutely real!"

What's even more important is that there were reports that the trademark application for Macrohard was already filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on August 1st. This shows that Musk is putting it into practice and not just saying it casually.

Multiple agents cooperate: Musk wants to "rebuild Microsoft" with AI

As he wrote in his tweet, the central logic behind Macrohard is:

A software company like Microsoft doesn't produce hardware, but earns money from software products and subscription services. Theoretically, one can completely "simulate" a "Microsoft" with AI.

In other words, Macrohard's goal is: Everything that Microsoft can do, AI can also do, and only with AI.

In fact, Musk laid the foundation for this plan in July. At that time, he announced that xAI is building a multi - agent AI software company, where:

● The core engine: xAI's chatbot Grok is responsible for coordination;

● Hundreds of specialized agents: They are each responsible for programming, image/video generation and understanding, and work together;

● Virtual user interaction: The agents can simulate human behavior when using software in a virtual machine and test repeatedly until the result is optimal.

At that time, Musk even "kept the cat in the bag" in his tweet: "This is a huge challenge (macro challenge) and a difficult problem (hard problem), the competition will be very fierce! Can you imagine the name of this company?"

Now the answer is clear: It's Macrohard.

Moreover, foreign media reported that xAI's trademark application for Macrohard at the USPTO is very broad and includes: software for language and text generation, AI tools for design/programming, conversational AI chatbots, AI - driven video game development, etc.

This makes one think of Microsoft's product portfolio: Office, Teams, Copilot, Visual Studio, Xbox... For almost every product line, Macrohard seems to have an AI version. This means that Musk doesn't just envision Macrohard as an "improved version of an AI chatbot," but as a distributed AI factory where multiple agents cooperate, directly targeting Microsoft.

Except for the above - mentioned information, Musk has hardly released any more details about Macrohard so far.

But to run hundreds of agents simultaneously, a single chatbot is not enough. So the media speculates that the computing power behind Macrohard is probably the supercomputer cluster Colossus 2 that xAI is building in Memphis, USA.

After all, Colossus was an important part of Musk's AI strategy in the competition with OpenAI and others.

Musk has already confirmed that Colossus 2 will be equipped with 1 million NVIDIA GPUs. With this configuration, the peak computing power is estimated to reach 2000 - 4000 EFLOPS, which is a five - fold increase compared to the current Colossus with 200,000 GPUs (800 EFLOPS).

Conclusion: Joke or future?

There is no denying that Microsoft is one of the most important players in the field of artificial intelligence. In recent years, it has invested more than $10 billion in OpenAI and deeply integrated the GPT model into the Office package and the Windows system to make Copilot the standard in daily software use.

Elon Musk, on the other hand, has long been a critic of OpenAI. He has accused it several times of deviating from the original "open - source and non - profit" vision in its cooperation with Microsoft. At the same time, it's no secret that he has problems with Bill Gates and he has publicly "gotten angry" with him several times.

Against this background, the establishment of Macrohard seems to be a transformation of this verbal confrontation into a real commercial confrontation.

Can Macrohard actually "rebuild Microsoft with AI"? Currently, no one can give an answer. But one thing is certain: Musk is throwing the most radical question at the entire software industry in his own way: If a software company like Microsoft can be completely simulated by AI, what will the future of the software industry look like?

Source links:

https://www.teslarati.com/elon-musk-targets-bill-gates-microsoft-new-ai-venture-macrohard/

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/elon-musk-takes-on-bill-gates-microsoft-with-macrohard-what-it-is-9145022

This article is from the WeChat account "CSDN", edited by Zheng Liyuan, published by 36Kr with permission.