Fb supremo Mark Zuckerberg is redirecting Meta-wide efforts to construct synthetic common intelligence and needs to safe a whopping 350,000 or extra Nvidia H100 GPUs by the top of the yr to make that occur.

This comes as OpenAI reportedly signaled it desires to lift billions of {dollars} in funding to construct a community of chip fabs to provide sufficient AI accelerators to fulfill its wants. With the Fb empire seeking to vacuum up greater than a 3rd of 1,000,000 Nvidia GPUs alone, we will see why the ChatGPT home is tremendous eager on extra factories to churn out processors.

Zuck’s boffins are proper now coaching Llama 3, their newest content-generating giant language mannequin, and plan on releasing it overtly, the billionaire confirmed Thursday through Instagram. Beneath Zuckerberg’s imaginative and prescient, Meta’s Basic AI Analysis and Generative AI groups will work extra carefully collectively to develop core capabilities wanted to realize synthetic common intelligence, or AGI.

“It is develop into clear that the following era of companies requires constructing full common intelligence, constructing the most effective AI assistants, AIs for creators, AIs for companies and extra wants advances in each space, from reasoning to planning to coding to reminiscence and different cognitive talents,” he stated.

Zuckerberg is the newest CEO to throw his hat within the ring within the race to construct AGI, a theoretical know-how that may outperform people in lots of cognitive duties. Coaching more and more highly effective fashions wanted for AGI to develop into greater than a pipe dream requires large quantities of accelerators, and Zuckerberg stated Meta intends to amass 350,000 H100s for the duty.

That is not all: Meta will reportedly use different sorts of chips to realize a complete computing energy equal to 600,000 H100s utilizing quite a lot of GPUs. It is even engaged on its personal AI silicon.

Not like another orgs pursuing AGI, Meta is planning to overtly share its efforts and has vowed to launch its fashions for different builders to make use of. And Zuckerberg hasn’t fairly turned his again on that entire Metaverse and VR headset factor. As a substitute, he opined AGI will assist construct and fill out the challenge’s interconnected worlds of 3D digital actuality, because the company has beforehand indicated when requested whether or not the CEO has given up on it in favor of synthetic intelligence.

“Persons are additionally going to wish new units for AI and this brings collectively AI and the Metaverse over time. I feel loads of us are going to speak to AIs incessantly all through the day. And I feel loads of us are going to do this utilizing glasses. Glasses are the perfect kind issue for letting an AI see what you see and listen to what you hear,” he predicted. 

Final yr, Meta launched Ray-Ban good glasses in partnership with eyewear conglomerate EssilorLuxottica, which every comprise a digicam, speaker, and microphone. For $299, wearers can activate and chat with an AI assistant, and Zuck claimed they have been off to a “very robust begin.” ®