Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced a strategic shift in the company's artificial intelligence (AI) efforts, bringing together its business-focused generative AI research team and Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) team. The move aims to advance the development of full general intelligence for improved AI assistants and products. Meta plans to make significant investments in specialized computer chips, aiming to have about 350,000 H100 GPUs from Nvidia by the end of the year. The decision mirrors Alphabet's move in 2023, combining its advanced AI research labs. Zuckerberg emphasized the need for AI advancements in reasoning, planning, coding, memory, and cognitive abilities.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has revealed a strategic shift in the company's artificial intelligence (AI) efforts by bringing together its business-focused generative AI research team and the Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) team. The move is aimed at advancing the development of full general intelligence to enhance AI assistants and various products. Meta plans to make significant investments in specialized computer chips, with a goal of having approximately 350,000 H100 graphics processing units (GPUs) from Nvidia by the end of the year.
This strategic move mirrors Alphabet's decision in 2023, where it combined its two advanced AI research labs, Google Brain and DeepMind. Zuckerberg emphasized the necessity of AI advancements across various areas, including reasoning, planning, coding, memory, and cognitive abilities. The company also revealed that it had started training its next-generation Llama 3 large language model (LLM) as part of the effort to integrate generative AI into its products.
Meta's decision to consolidate its AI research divisions reflects the broader trend in the tech industry, where companies are pushing for advancements in AI capabilities. The announcement underscores Meta's commitment to staying competitive in the AI space, with a focus on developing more powerful and sophisticated AI models for various applications. The planned investments in technology infrastructure, including GPUs, align with the company's vision to leverage AI for the next generation of services and products.
(AMAKA NWAOKOCHA, COINTELEGRAPH, 2023)