Fb mother or father Meta Platforms Inc stated on Monday that its analysis workforce has constructed a brand new synthetic intelligence supercomputer that it thinks would be the quickest on the planet when accomplished in mid-2022.
Meta stated in a weblog publish that its new AI Analysis SuperCluster (RSC) would assist the corporate construct higher AI fashions that may study from trillions of examples, work throughout a whole lot of languages, and analyze textual content, pictures and video collectively to find out if content material was dangerous.
"This analysis is not going to solely assist preserve folks protected on our companies at this time, but additionally sooner or later, as we construct for the metaverse," the corporate stated in a weblog publish.
The social media firm modified its identify in October to Meta to mirror its concentrate on the metaverse, which it thinks would be the successor to the cell web.
The metaverse, a broad time period which has generated a variety of Silicon Valley buzz in latest months, refers back to the thought of shared digital environments which individuals can entry via completely different gadgets and the place they'll work, play and socialize.
"The experiences we're constructing for the metaverse require monumental compute energy (quintillions of operations/second!) and RSC will allow new AI fashions that may study from trillions of examples, perceive a whole lot of languages, and extra," Meta Chief Govt Officer Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a Fb publish on Monday.
Meta stated it believed the RSC was presently among the many quickest AI supercomputers operating. A Meta spokesperson stated the corporate had partnered with groups from Nvidia Corp, Pure Storage Inc and Penguin Computing Inc to construct the supercomputer.
(Reporting by Elizabeth Culliford in New York and Tiyashi Datta in Bengaluru; Modifying by Bernard Orr and David Gregorio)
Fb unveiled their new Meta signal on the firm headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021. (AP Picture/Tony Avelar)
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