gigafactory
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gigafactory
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From giga- + factory; Coined by billionaire Elon Musk in 2013 for his Tesla Motors, and since used by others.
noun gigafactories
- A very large manufacturing facility. The new AI “gigafactories” would be much larger, targeting what the commission called “moonshots”: significant innovations in healthcare, biotech, industry, robotics and scientific discovery. […] While the best-performing AI factories have supercomputers equipped with up to 25,000 advanced AI proces
- A factory producing electric batteries at a large scale. “The main constraint on our production is really the cells,” Musk explained. “We are not quite ready to make a big announcement on the cell and battery giga factory, but we are exploring a lot of these options right now.”
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noun very large factory
| 中文 | 超級工廠 /超级工厂 |
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title = {gigafactory},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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