Last Updated: January 19, 2024, 09:00 IST
Sheryl has been an enormous a part of Facebook and later Meta’s progress historical past
Meta is doubling down on its generative AI push by bringing its AI analysis group “closer together,” buying new GPUs, and constructing infrastructure to deal with them.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg mentioned on Thursday that the corporate was bringing its AI analysis group “closer together” with a extra business-focused generative AI group launched final yr, doubling down on a push to get the expertise into merchandise.
The social media big was constructing out its infrastructure to accommodate the push and deliberate to have about 350,000 H100 GPUs (graphics processing models) from chip designer Nvidia by the tip of the yr, Zuckerberg mentioned in posts on Meta’s Instagram and Threads platforms.
In mixture with equal chips from different suppliers, Meta may have about 600,000 whole GPUs by the tip of the yr, he mentioned.
That quantity would make Meta’s system, as soon as completed, among the many largest within the expertise trade.
A Meta spokesperson declined to specify which GPU suppliers the corporate was utilizing other than market chief Nvidia, although it has mentioned publicly it additionally plans to make use of chips from AMD. Reuters has beforehand reported it has an internally designed GPU-like chip within the works, as properly.
Meta has scrambled to construct out its computing arsenal to assist a mobilization round generative AI this previous yr, after years of manufacturing main analysis on the expertise by way of its FAIR group however scant give attention to constructing it into its core social media merchandise and AR/VR {hardware} units.
The firm convened a “GenAI” group final yr to guide an effort to vary that after the breakout success of OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot in late 2022.
Since then, Meta has launched a business model of its Llama massive language mannequin, advert instruments that may generate picture backgrounds from textual content prompts and a “Meta AI” chatbot that may be accessed instantly by way of its Ray-Ban good glasses.
In his posts on Thursday, Zuckerberg mentioned the corporate was presently coaching a 3rd model of the Llama mannequin.
He additionally tied the AI investments again to the pivot to the AR/VR-driven metaverse imaginative and prescient that impressed him to vary the corporate’s identify to Meta in 2021, saying folks would “need new devices” like glasses for interacting with AI.
(This story has been edited by News18 employees and is printed from a syndicated news company feed – Reuters)
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