Zuckerberg: Meta pouring money into artificial general intelligence
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday he was shaking up his company’s efforts on artificial intelligence and pouring money into massive data centers.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday he was shaking up his company’s efforts on artificial intelligence and pouring money into massive data centers to try to beat his tech industry rivals in achieving human-level computer systems.
Zuckerberg said in a post on Facebook that he was bringing two of Meta’s existing research efforts “closer together”: a project called FAIR, which has focused on basic research, and a second named GenAI, which works on developing AI products for consumers.
“Our long term vision is to build general intelligence, open source it responsibly, and make it widely available so everyone can benefit,” he wrote in the post.
Zuckerberg did not define the term “general intelligence,” but Meta researchers and other AI experts have for years used the term “artificial general intelligence” to describe a still-theoretical form of AI that is at least as capable as humans.
Zuckerberg also said Meta was “building massive compute infrastructure to support our future roadmap,” including a stockpile of 350,000 computer chips known as H100s. The chips have been the go-to building block of AI data centers since Nvidia introduced them in 2022. The tech news website The Verge reported in December that Meta was tied with Microsoft as Nvidia’s largest customer for the H100.
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