Meta is reportedly testing its first in-house AI training chip

Breaking: A large technological company increases the development of AI. (Whaat ??) In this case the hero of this together fairy tale meta, this Reuters report Testing the first home chip for AI education. The idea is to reduce the costs of the Gargantuan infrastructure and reduce the dependence on NVIDIA (probably a company) Mark removes Zuckerberg’s “Mature” side). If all goes well, Meta hopes to use it for training until 2026.

Meta, a special accelerator chip designed to specialize in AI tasks (and therefore effective for more power) General purpose Nvidia GPUs). The company has started after the first “ribbon exit” is completed, the silicone development stage is sent to a full design for a production test.

Is part of the chip meta training and the accelerator (MTIA) arrayThe company is aimed at a special home silicon family, generation AI, recommended systems and advanced research.

Started using a MTIA chip for the company last year conclusionA predictive process occurring behind the scenes in AI models. Meta, Facebook and Instagram news began to use inference for feed recommendations systems. Reuters This means that he planned to start using the training silicone. The long-term plan for both chips will begin with recommendations and as a result, it is said to be used for general products such as Meta ai chatbot.

The company is one of the largest customers of NVIDIA seat Orders for GPUs worth billions of dollars in 2022.