Facebook’s parent company Meta has revealed new information about its artificial intelligence (AI) projects in a few blog posts. May 18th.
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Meta built its first generation silicon chip for AI models in 2020 under the name MTIA (Meta Training and Inference Accelerator).
The company says the chip was designed to complement GPUs. The company said it uses the inference chip to improve its recommendations and is currently working on a new version of the chip with higher specifications.
Meta further said it will create a new AI-optimized data center design, whose data will be used in AI applications such as inference and training. It will also complement the company’s video transcoding chip, the Meta Scalable Video Processor (MSVP).
Finally, Meta said it is building a 16,000 GPU supercomputer for AI research, calling it “one of the fastest AI supercomputers in the world.”
AI efforts mostly remain private
Meta doesn’t reveal too many details about its AI technology. However, the company has announced details of AI products for the general public in the past.
Earlier this year, Meta and its executives announced plans for AI-powered advertising and discussed using AI in content discovery and user support.
The company’s AI language model, LLaMA, was also leaked to the public against the company’s intentions in March, giving the open-source community access to the technology.
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