Based on The Wall Avenue Journal, Meta’s presently constructing a brand new AI system, which it hopes will finally rival OpenAI’s GPT techniques in compute energy and complexity. The system will construct on Meta’s present Llama fashions, and convey Meta in control with others within the generative AI race.

As per WSJ:

“The deliberate system, particulars of which might nonetheless change, would assist different firms to construct providers that produce subtle textual content, evaluation and different output. It’s the work of a bunch shaped early this 12 months by Meta Chief Government Mark Zuckerberg to speed up improvement of so-called generative AI instruments that may produce humanlike expressions.”

Certainly, varied studies have advised that Zuckerberg grew to become “obsessed” with AI after seeing the early hype round ChatGPT, which has modified the course of lots of Meta’s initiatives, and decreased its emphasis on the metaverse, its longer-term VR wager.

Although that additionally stays a key factor in Meta’s planning. However generative AI has opened up new alternatives, and Meta is uniquely positioned to faucet into such, primarily based on its unmatched databanks, and systematic sources.

On the latter, WSJ additionally studies that Meta’s presently within the means of buying extra Nvidia H100 chips to energy its AI ambitions. Nvidia chips are in excessive demand, and restricted provide at current, which, at a base stage, signifies that the corporate with probably the most chips stands the perfect probability to win out within the broader AI improvement race.

Earlier this 12 months, Elon Musk reportedly bought 10,000 GPUs for his generative AI challenge.

It’ll be attention-grabbing to see how Meta plans to deploy its personal AI and LLM instruments, and the way they’ll be built-in into its in-app experiences. Meta’s already experimenting with a variety of AI-powered parts, together with visible creation instruments and an Instagram chatbot.

Possibly, via a extra superior AI system, it’ll look to reinforce and enhance these experiences, whereas additionally using higher-end AI inside its advert concentrating on and creation course of.

Total, it’s little shock to see Meta trying to make an even bigger transfer within the AI area, given its long-term work on this space, and the potential it has to compete, primarily based on its trove of conversational information and interplay. With these concerns factored in, it does look like Meta ought to be capable to create a greater AI mannequin, and it’ll be attention-grabbing to see how, precisely, it seems to deploy and make the most of such techniques.

Based on WSJ, Meta expects to start out coaching its new AI system in early 2024. No phrase but on a public launch timeline.